Greatest Hits

RELEASE
January 25, 2011
LABEL
Universal Music
GENRES
Country, Contemporary Country, Nashville Sound/Countrypolitan, Neo-Traditionalist Country, New Traditionalist

Album Review

Joe Nichols began racking up country hits in 2002, reaching the top of the charts with “Brokenheartsville.” A few years later he topped the charts again with “Tequila Makes Her Clothes Fall Off,” then he wrapped up the decade with his third chart-topper, the crossover hit “Gimmie That Girl.” These three singles serve as anchors on the brisk 2011 Greatest Hits collection, his first-ever compilation. At ten tracks, this is perhaps too tight, finding no space for “She Only Smokes When She Drinks,” “If Nobody Believed in You,” “Man with a Memory,” and “Another Side of You” (nor are any of his seasonal single here, but their absence is not noticed), but the basics -- the three number ones, “The Shape I’m In,” “What’s a Guy Gotta Do,” “Size Matters,” "The Impossible," "It Ain't No Crime," "Cool to Be a Fool," "I'll Wait for You" -- are all here, making for a breezy collection of congenial country.
Stephen Thomas Erlewine, Rovi

Track Listing

  1. Gimmie That Girl
  2. The Shape I'm In
  3. Tequila Makes Her Clothes Fall Off
  4. Brokenheartsville
  5. Size Matters
  6. The Impossible
  7. What's a Guy Gotta Do
  8. It Ain't No Crime
  9. Cool to Be a Fool
  10. I'll Wait for You