The Best of Collin Raye: Direct Hits

1. Little Rock

2. I Think About You

3. Not That Different

4. What If Jesus Comes Back Like That

5. If I Were You

6. One Boy, One Girl

7. In This Life

8. Bible and a Bus Ticket Home

9. Love Remains

10. What the Heart Wants

11. Gift

12. Open Arms

13. Little Red Rodeo

14. Love, Me

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Average customer rating:

Missing too many essential tracks

Love it!

Thinking about his eight-year-old daughter

Collin Raye...The One of the most underrated music stars around

Thoughts from a Hip Hop Head

The Best Of Collin Raye: Direct Hits [ECD]
Collin Raye
Manufacturer: Sony
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000002BS4
Release Date: 1997-08-26

Tracks:

Little Rock
I Think About You
Not That Different
That's My Story
If I Were You
One Boy, One Girl
In This Life
My Kind Of Girl
That Was A River
What The Heart Wants
The Gift
Open Arms
Little Red Rodeo
Love, Me

Customer Reviews:

Missing too many essential tracks.......2007-05-20

Overall this is a fine introduction to Collin Raye's work, but it is missing the hits "On The Verge", "What If Jesus Came Back LIke That" and " I Can Still Feel You", along with the key album tracks "I Volunteer" and "Dark Secrets/ The Eleventh Commandment". Perhaps these songs will be included on "The Essential Collin Raye" if it is ever released.

Love it!.......2007-03-14

I love Collin Raye and this CD contains all of his hits! He is such a great singer/songwriter. I can't wait until he comes out with more music. The CD arrived pretty quickly through standard shipping and was in good condition upon receipt. No problems!

Thinking about his eight-year-old daughter.......2005-08-19

There are several compilations of Collin's music to choose from but I believe this was the first. It contains ten tracks drawn from his first four albums together with four bonus tracks recorded specially for inclusion in the set. Collin had over twenty top ten country hits during his time recording for Epic. I don't think there is any compilation yet available that includes them all but this one provides a wonderful introduction to his music.

Only one track (Love, me) is taken from Collin's debut album (All I can be) while just two (In this life, That was a river) are from the follow-up (In this life). Four tracks (That's my story, My kind of girl, Little Rock, If I were you) come from Collin's third album (Extremes) and three tracks (I think about you, Not that different, One boy one girl) are taken from the fourth and most recent album represented here (I think about you). It is worth noting that Collin recorded two completely different songs titled If I were you - the other one can be found on his debut album.

The outstanding song here is I think about you - not a love song as the title might suggest, but an ode to Collin's eight-year-old daughter in which he wonders how her life might develop. Collin ponders various situations from celebrity status to being a victim of domestic violence and sings that whenever he sees a woman, he thinks of his daughter. It is a very touching, thought-provoking song. The set opens with Little Rock, a song about attempting to recover from alcoholism. Collin gets a bit rowdy on a couple of songs (That's my story, My kind of girl) but mainly sticks to the ballads that suit him best. Elsewhere, the album is filled with romantic love songs, which Collin excels at.

Collin mainly recorded original material but his first four albums included covers of Big river, Dreaming my dreams with you and Let it be me. None of those made it to this compilation but one of the four bonus tracks is a cover of Open arms. Originally recorded by Journey, Collin makes a fine job of it but I still prefer the version by the Burch sisters, a country trio who recorded one album (which I've reviewed) before returning to the obscurity from whence they came.

This is a great compilation of music by one of the leading country music stars of the early nineties.

Collin Raye...The One of the most underrated music stars around.......2005-08-17

Simply put, if you love ballads You will love Collin Rayes music, This album is a MUST have for music lovers, Country Music fans and people that just like good music.
Their is not one single bad song on this CD.

Thoughts from a Hip Hop Head.......2004-06-26

The music in my world mostly revolves around hip-hop, R&B, and Jazz. I went through my little "punk-rock" phase in the '80s but country I shunned like the dickens, being way "too cool" for that.

A friend of mine gave me a ride home from work about ten years or so ago and the song "Love,Me" came on. Poor thing, she was being kind of enough to give me a ride home, she didn't expect to have to pull over and find tissues.

I'd been a closet country listner ever since. It's one of those things I hide from all of my friends (it's a country thing and they wouldn't understand). But this cd is going to get played over and over and over again in my car, and I don't care who hears it. I'll just have to make sure I have plenty of tissues again when "Love,Me" comes on.

If you see the black girl in hip hop gear with braids bobbing her head to Collin Raye, say a how-do, because you'll know it's me.

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