Clint Black - The Greatest Hits

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Clint Black arrived on the country charts in 1989, a great year for new talent in country music, with Garth Brooks, Alan Jackson, and Travis Tritt also releasing debut albums. As hard as it may be to believe now, Black's debut Killin' Time established him initially as the biggest of the new stars with hits like "A Better Man," "Nobody's Home," and the title track.These songs effectively displayed Black's clever wordplay amid fairly traditional honky tonk arrangements and a Haggardesque vocal style with a dash of quiver. While it wasn't long before Black was surpassed in the sales and award arena by Brooks and even Jackson, his music continued to captivate - as this Greatest Hits shows.All of his first five albums are represented on Greatest Hits, but strangely, only "A Better Man" and "Killin' Time" are here from the first album, with the lone entry from his second, Put Yourself In My Place, being its title track. Any collection calling itself Black's Greatest should have...Read more

I could have given Clint Black's The Greatest Hits album five stars, because musically, it is great. The newer songs on this record, "Like The Rain", "Half Way Up", and "Cadillac Jack Favor", are among Clint's best. I also like Clint's live version of the Eagles' classic song "Desperado", which Clint originally did for the "Common Thread" Eagles tribute album. However, although Clint and his co-producer, James Stroud, put together a strong collection of songs, I think Clint overlooked some songs from early in his career that in my opinion are classics. "Lovin' Blind", "Where Are You Now", and "When My Ship Comes In", all #1 hits, are very good songs, yet they don't even appear on The Greatest Hits. Nevertheless, Clint still put enough of his hit songs on this record that it's truly a high quality collection. "A Better Man", "Killin' Time", "Put Yourself In My...Read more

Clint Black is a great country artist, no if's, and's, or but's about it. He has a pure, classic voice. His lyric writing and melodies are flawless and fresh. This Greatest Hits album is just as perfect as an all new, original album. You get two new songs on here called "Like The Rain", which is a great, strong Clint song. The other is called "Halfway Up", which is a pleasing little ditty. The rest is pure gold. "A Better Man" is as good a country song as country songs get. His rendition of the classic Eagles song "Desperado" is priceless. It shows off his impressive vocal abilities. His performance of it gives goosebumps that Don Henley hasn'y given me when he sings it. There is not one bad track on here. Each song is as good as any other one. A lot of the songs are bouncy up-tempo songs, and that's just fine. "A Good Run Of Bad Luck" is great. The best catchy song is "Summer's Comin'". It's a great summer type song along...Read more