Track Listing

1. As If
2. Born To Fly
3. I Could Not Ask For More
4. Perfect
5. Cheatin'
6. Suds In the Bucket
7. Saints & Angels
8. You'll Always Be My Baby
9. I Keep Looking
10. No Place That Far
11. a Real Fine Place To Start
12. Love You With All My Heart
13. Pray For You
14. Some Things Never Change

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #789 in Music
• Released on: 2007-10-09
• Number of discs: 1

Amazon.com
Growing up in her family band in Missouri, Sara Evans learned two valuable lessons: always imbue a song with palpable emotion, and quickly change directions if a number tends to flop. Both rules have kept Evans in the big leagues the last 10 years. If she's moved more squarely into the mainstream during this time, her adenoidal delivery and "Show Me State"-twang keeps her down on the farm, and she has not forgotten where she came from, as the irresistible hoedown head-bobber "Suds in the Bucket" proves. Evans has a tendency to wear rose-colored glasses when looking to the romantic horizon ("No Place That Far"), but it works in her favor on "As If," a bouncy, rockin' hormone rush in the advent of new love. The first of four new songs, "As If" is a perfect "starting over" tune in the wake of her messy 2006 divorce. "Love You With All My Heart" and "Pray for You" echo the new-beginnings theme. If "Some Things Never Change" seems a tired nod to routine family values, Evans apparently remembers a third lesson from her family-band days: Playing it safe will never get you kicked off the stage. --Alanna Nash

Album Description
Sara evans is one america's major stars on the country music scene. After 5 albums it's time for a greatest hits! All the favourites are there plus 4 new tracks. The first single "as if" is at radio now.

Customer Reviews

A pleasant surprise - great CD
I only knew a few Sara Evans songs, so I was pleasantly surprised by how good she is, and how good this Greatest Hits collection is. I'd recommend this CD to any lover of country music.

Good country music
I wasn't familiar with her music before, but really like it. All in all it's a good CD and worth the money.

A better-than-average compilation
I think that a good Greatest Hits package should have more than the standard 10 or 12 tracks, especially when new material is included. In that respect, this collection from Sara Evans delivers - there are 10 of her biggest hits along with four new tracks. Although some of my favorites are not here -- "Three Chords And The Truth" and "Backseat of A Greyhound Bus" -- are the first that come time mind, they didn't chart high enough to justify inclusion in a Greatest Hits collection.

Which brings me to my next point -- I didn't actually buy this CD. I'm a big fan of Sara's so I already owned all of her previous CDs. A few years ago, I would have purchased this one to get the new tracks, or perhaps to even get all the hits on a single disk. In this day and age, that isn't necessary, which is something that those of you who are complaining about this song or that song not being included should bear in mind. If you're a diehard fan like me, download the new tracks for 99 cents apiece from Amazon, and burn them to a disk along with whatever other tracks you feel should be included. If you're a more casual fan, buy the Greatest Hits CD or download it, and then download any other indivdiual tracks you want from other albums, and make your own compilation. We're not at the mercy of the record companies anymore, folks.

But I digress. I actually made a playlist to match RCA's choice of tracks and have been playing it non-stop. Sara Evans is one of the few bright spots among today's country stars, and this solid collection of hits is sure to please any of her fans.