[ Word Entertainment / 2 CD ]
Release Date: Tuesday 17 March 2009
This item is only available to us via Special Import.
Randy Travis was country music's first multi-platinum selling artist when the 'Storms of Life' album arrived in 1985 and almost single-handedly put the term "New Traditionalist" on the country music map.
In retrospect, that marketing label was tailor-made for Travis, whose calm, comfortable singing style and no cowboy circus frills belied the fact that his recordings were carefully done to stand outside the industry's passing fads, which makes this two-disc career overview seem both timely and sturdy. The essentials are here, including a quartet of hits from 'Storms of Life', "On the Other Hand," "1982," "Diggin' Up Bones," and "No Place Like Home," as well as later hits like 1994's "Whisper to Me," and it affords another look at Travis, whose unassuming, dignified and yes, traditional approach to country music makes him still seem relevant and current even after all these years.
~ Steve Leggett, All Music Guide
Disc 1 - CD:
1. Diggin' Up Bones
2. Forever and Ever, Amen
3. I Told You So
4. He Walked on Water
5. Promises
6. Three Wooden Crosses
7. Deeper Than the Holler
8. On the Other Hand
9. Too Gone Too Long
10. We're Strangers Again
11. Look Heart, No Hands
12. 1982
13. Better Class of Losers
14. I Won't Need You Anymore
15. Faith in You
16. Love's Alive and Well
Disc 2 - CD:
1. Honky Tonk Moon
2. Would I
3. It's Just a Matter of Time
4. Forever Together
5. No Place Like Home
6. A Few Ole Country Boys
7. Is It Still Over?
8. Whisper My Name
9. Before You Kill Us All
10. Heroes and Friends
11. This Is Me
12. King of the Road
13. The Box
14. Are We in Trouble Now
15. Turn It Around
16. You Ain't Right