Super Hits George Jones Artist

{|Epic|}'s 1987 {|Super Hits|} is a budget-line sampler of {|George Jones|}' '70s and '80s work for the label -- which means, of course, that the first three songs on the album ({|White Lightning,|} {|Why Baby Why,|} {|The Window Up Above|}) are not ... Read more

{|Epic|}'s 1987 {|Super Hits|} is a budget-line sampler of {|George Jones|}' '70s and '80s work for the label -- which means, of course, that the first three songs on the album ({|White Lightning,|} {|Why Baby Why,|} {|The Window Up Above|}) are not original recordings, they're remakes. {|Billy Sherrill|}-produced remakes, that is, which means they're better and more interesting than your average remakes, but they're not as good as the {|Starday|}/{|Mercury|}/{|UA|} originals (plus, they're recycled from the 1977 collection, {|All-Time Greatest Hits, Vol. 1|}). The rest of the song selection is a little hit and miss, highlighted by a four-song stretch in the middle of the record that brings you {|A Picture of Me (Without You),|} {|The Grand Tour,|} {|Bartender's Blues,|} and {|He Stopped Loving Her Today.|} As samplers go, it's not bad, but other collections offer a fuller picture with a better song selection for about the same price, so there's no real reason to get this. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine Less