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  • Summary: The two-disc collection features a sampling of songs from the singer-songwriter's last four albums on Dualtone Records as well as three unreleased demos tracks.
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  1. 90
    Apart from several live recordings of older classics, which feel unnecessary on an album that highlights Clark’s late-career work, this collection is a testament to the spectacular consistency of quality and depth in Clark’s songwriting genius even as he struggled through declining health in his final decade.
  2. 80
    What emerges yet again is his deceptively downhome way of dropping pearls of wisdom into seemingly mundane scenarios, with plainspoken humor, with poignancy, with uncommon insight, and sometimes all three at once.
  3. Mar 3, 2017
    74
    While this sampler doesn’t begun cover the whole of his efforts, it does boast enough essential songs to qualify it as an adequate introduction.
  4. Mar 3, 2017
    70
    Those new to Guy Clark should pick up this collection, along with the other two mentioned above [2007’s Best of the Sugar Hill Years and 1997’s The Essential Guy Clark].