Crystal Gayle - Best of Crystal Gayle

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This nineteen track Best Of leads off with a single sampling of Gayle's stints at United Artists (her signature hit "Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue") and Columbia (the poignant "If You Ever Change Your Mind"). After that, the set concentrates on her tenure at Warner Brothers, capturing all of Gayle's top ten hits there as well as a few choice album cuts. It easily surpasses Warner Brothers' 1986 ten-track Greatest Hits, anthologizing for the first time her collaborations with Eddie Rabbitt ("You And I") and Gary Morris ("Making Up For Lost Time," "Another World").

Like the Judds in their heyday, Gayle's best Warner Brothers recordings concentrate on love in its various stages, be it rock solid ("A Love And Lasting Love"), fragile ("Our Love Is On The Faultline"), lost ("The Sound Of Goodbye"), or recovery ("Til I Gain Control Again"). While her '70s United Artists' material is more thematically varied and held in higher esteem, these '80s Warner Brothers' efforts showcase Gayle at her most vocally confident. Kudos to Rhino for attractively repackaging this neglected phase of her recording career.

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