The Greatest Hits Collection (Brooks & Dunn album)

The Greatest Hits Collection
Greatest hits album by Brooks & Dunn
Released	September 16, 1997
Genre	Country
Length	1:00:28
Label	Arista Nashville
Producer	Various
Brooks & Dunn chronology
Borderline (1996)Borderline1996 The Greatest Hits Collection (1997) If You See Her (1998)If You See Her1998

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The Greatest Hits Collection is the first greatest hits compilation by the American country music duo Brooks & Dunn. It was released in 1997 (see 1997 in country music) on Arista Nashville, and it chronicles the greatest hits from their first four studio albums: 1991's Brand New Man, 1993's Hard Workin' Man, 1994's Waitin' on Sundown and 1996's Borderline. The album also includes three new tracks, two of which were released as singles: "Honky Tonk Truth" and "He's Got You", which respectively reached #3 and #2 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks (now Hot Country Songs) charts. In 2004, a sequel The Greatest Hits Collection II was released, but is currently out of print.

Artwork

The cover depicts the duo's longhorn symbol in tan yellow on a black background. On the inside, the CD tray shows a bull skull, painted red, white & blue and with a star on the top, which forms the Texas flag. The horns on the skull are still brown. The album even depicts barbwires right next to the skull as well as on the back cover where the track listing is, on the CD, and on the first page of the album's booklet. The same can be found on the out of print 2004 compilation The Greatest Hits Collection II, although the background is white, the typeface is in gold and it is more difficult to see the longhorn symbol and excludes the barbwires and the bull skull.

Track listing

1. "My Maria" (B.W. Stevenson, Daniel Moore) – 3:28
2. "Honky Tonk Truth" (Ronnie Dunn, Lonnie Wilson, Kim Williams) – 3:14^A
3. "You're Gonna Miss Me When I'm Gone" (Kix Brooks, Don Cook, Dunn) – 4:52
4. "Boot Scootin' Boogie" (Dunn) – 3:17
5. "He's Got You" (Dunn, Terry McBride) – 3:11^A
6. "Hard Workin' Man" (Dunn) – 2:57
7. "That Ain't No Way to Go" (Brooks, Dunn, Cook) – 3:37
8. "Rock My World (Little Country Girl)" (Steve O'Brien, Bill LaBounty) – 3:42
9. "Neon Moon" (Dunn) – 4:21
10. "Lost and Found" (Brooks, Cook) – 3:47
11. "She's Not the Cheatin' Kind" (Dunn) – 3:25
12. "Brand New Man" (Brooks, Dunn, Cook) – 2:59
13. "Days of Thunder" (Brooks, Paul Nelson) – 3:30^B
14. "We'll Burn That Bridge" (Dunn, Cook) – 2:56
15. "She Used to Be Mine" (Dunn) – 3:55
16. "Mama Don't Get Dressed Up for Nothing" (Brooks, Dunn, Cook) – 4:06
17. "My Next Broken Heart" (Brooks, Dunn, Cook) – 2:55
18. "Whiskey Under the Bridge" (Brooks, Dunn, Cook) – 2:53
19. "Little Miss Honky Tonk" (Dunn) – 3:01

• ^ANewly recorded tracks.

• ^BPreviously Unreleased

Personnel

Brooks & Dunn

• Kix Brooks- lead vocals, background vocals
• Ronnie Dunn- lead vocals, background vocals

Additional Musicians

• Arista Tabernacle Choir- choir
• Bruce Bouton- steel guitar, slide guitar, lap steel guitar
• Dennis Burnside- keyboards, Hammond organ, piano
• Mark Casstevens- acoustic guitar, mandolin
• Mike Chapman- bass guitar
• Steve Gibson- acoustic guitar
• Rob Hajacos- fiddle
• Scott Hendricks- cowbell
• Wes Hightower- background vocals
• David Hungate- bass guitar
• John Barlow Jarvis- Steinway piano, keyboards, Hammond organ
• Bill LaBounty- background vocals
• Liana Manis- background vocals
• Brent Mason- electric guitar
• Terry McBride- background vocals
• Michael Rhodes- bass guitar
• Tom Roady- percussion
• John Wesley Ryles- background vocals
• Harry Stinson- background vocals
• Dennis Wilson- background vocals
• Lonnie Wilson- drums, percussion
• Glenn Worf- bass guitar

Chart performance

Album

Chart (1997)	Peak position
U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums	2
U.S. Billboard 200	4
Canadian RPM Country Albums	1
Canadian RPM Top Albums	15

Singles

Year	Single	Peak positions
		US Country	CAN Country
1997	"Honky Tonk Truth"	3	3
	"He's Got You"	2	3

Preceded by You Light up My Life: Inspirational Songs by LeAnn Rimes

RPM Country Albums number-one album October 27 - November 2, 1997

Succeeded by Outside the Frame by Paul Brandt