Title: Essential
Label: Sony
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS

Sub-titled 'The Spirit of Country' this exclusive 44 track collection spans the country great's entire hit and award filled career. The honky-tonk legend's tumultuous personal life is in evidence here in songs like, 'We Can Make It', 'These Days (I Barely Get By), 'Why Baby Why' (mono), 'She Thinks I Still Care' and of course his classic duets with Tammy Wynette. Additional artists include James Taylor, Johnny Paycheck, Ray Charles, Chet Atkins, Melba Montgomery and Merle Haggard. Sony.

Tracks:
1.1 Why Baby Why
1.2 Just One More
1.3 Color of the Blues
1.4 White Lightning
1.5 Who Shot Sam
1.6 The Window Up Above
1.7 Tender Years
1.8 She Thinks I Still Care
1.9 We Must Have Been Out of Our Minds
1.10 The Race Is on
1.11 Love Bug
1.12 I'm a People
1.13 Walk Through This World with Me
1.14 If My Heart Had Windows
1.15 A Good Year for the Roses
1.16 We Can Make It
1.17 The Ceremony
1.18 Loving You Could Never Be Better
1.19 A Picture of Me (Without You)
1.20 We're Gonna Hold on
1.21 Once You've Had the Best
1.22 The Grand Tour
2.1 The Door
2.2 These Days (I Barely Get By)
2.3 Golden Ring
2.4 Her Name Is
2.5 Near You
2.6 Bartender's Blues
2.7 Maybelline
2.8 Two Story House
2.9 He Stopped Loving Her Today
2.10 I'm Not Ready Yet
2.11 If Drinkin' Don't Kill Me (Her Memory Will)
2.12 Still Doin' Time
2.13 Same Ole Me
2.14 Yesterday's Wine
2.15 I Always Get Lucky with You
2.16 Tennessee Whiskey
2.17 We Didn't See a Thing
2.18 She's My Rock
2.19 Who's Gonna Fill Their Shoes
2.20 Wine Colored Roses
2.21 I'm a One Woman Man
2.22 The King Is Gone (So Are You)