Description:
In a way, it's like Garth Brooks never retired. He may have stopped touring and releasing new music, but he kept repackaging and reissuing his older albums, striking up an exclusive deal with Wal-Mart highlighted by a second box set called The Limited Series in 2006. That exclusivity contract expired in the summer of 2007, leaving Brooks a free agent, and he capitalized on his freedom almost immediately, delivering the double-disc singles collection The Ultimate Hits just in time for the holiday season of 2007. Where previous Garth repackagings could seem a little unnecessary -- it's not quite clear just how many of his fans needed that second Limited Series anyway -- The Ultimate Hits actually fills in a needed gap within his catalog, as Brooks hasn't had a hit compilation since his first, the 1994 The Hits. That disc was a "limited edition" at least in theory -- there were so many copies pressed it wasn't exactly rare -- and out of print since the mid-'90s, so it wasn't available in most retail stores, plus it didn't cover all the hits he had between its release and his retirement. The Ultimate Hits does exactly that, containing all 18 tracks from The Hits (albeit not in the same sequencing), adding 12 hits that he had in the last half of the '90s, along with four new songs highlighted by a cover of Huey Lewis & the News' "Workin' for a Livin'." The new songs are a nice touch, but the real purpose of this set is to offer casual fans a way to get all of Brooks' best-known hits in one package, and in that regard The Ultimate Hits not only succeeds, it's long overdue. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, AMG

Track Listing:

Disk 1
1.	Ain't Going Down ('Til the Sun Comes Up) [4:34]
2.	Friends in Low Places [4:19]
3.	Shameless [4:19]
4.	Two of a Kind, Workin' on a Full House [2:32]
5.	Beaches of Cheyenne [4:14]
6.	If Tomorrow Never Comes [3:40]
7.	Papa Loved Mama [2:52]
8.	More Than a Memory [3:23]
9.	Good Ride Cowboy [3:26]
10.	In Another's Eyes [3:34]
11.	Fever [2:41]
12.	Midnight Sun [3:47]
13.	Learning to Live Again [4:06]
14.	Longneck Bottle [2:19]
15.	To Make You Feel My Love [3:55]
16.	We Shall Be Free [3:48]
17.	Dance [3:39]
Disk 2
18.	Callin' Baton Rouge [2:38]
19.	Two Piña Coladas [3:34]
20.	Thunder Rolls [3:43]
21.	That Summer [4:46]
22.	River [4:27]
23.	Beer Run [3:04]
24.	Unanswered Prayers [3:26]
25.	Much Too Young (To Feel This Damn Old) [2:59]
26.	Workin' for a Livin' [2:44]
27.	What She's Doing Now [3:25]
28.	When You Come Back to Me Again [From Frequency] [4:45]
29.	Standing Outside the Fire [3:52]
30.	American Honk-tonk Bar Association [3:33]
31.	Change [4:06]
32.	Rodeo [3:55]
33.	Wrapped Up in You [4:32]
34.	Leave the Light On [*] [0:10]
35.	[Untitled] [0:09]
36.	[Untitled] [3:41]
Disk 3
37.	Much Too Young (To Feel This Damn Old) [Dvd]
38.	If Tomorrow Never Comes [Dvd]
39.	Dance [Dvd]
40.	Friends in Low Places [Dvd]
41.	Unanswered Prayers [Dvd]
42.	Two of a Kind, Workin' on a Full House [Dvd]
43.	Thunder Rolls [Dvd]
44.	Rodeo [Dvd]
45.	Shameless [Dvd]
46.	Papa Loved Mama [Dvd]
47.	What She's Doing Now [Dvd]
48.	River [Dvd]
49.	We Shall Be Free [Dvd]
50.	Learning to Live Again [Dvd]
51.	That Summer [Dvd]
52.	Standing Outside the Fire [Dvd]
53.	Ain't Going Down ('Til the Sun Comes Up) [Dvd]
54.	Callin' Baton Rouge [Dvd]
55.	American Honky-tonk Bar Association [Dvd]
56.	Fever [Dvd]
57.	To Make You Feel My Love [Dvd]
58.	Beaches of Cheyenne [Dvd]
59.	Change [Dvd]
60.	Two Piña Coladas [Dvd]
61.	Longneck Bottle [Dvd]
62.	In Another's Eyes [Dvd]
63.	Wrapped Up in You [Dvd]
64.	Beer Run [Dvd]
65.	When You Come Back to Me Again [Dvd]
66.	Good Ride Cowboy [Dvd]
67.	More Than a Memory [Dvd]
68.	Workin' for a Livin' [Dvd]
69.	Midnight Sun [Dvd]

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