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Greatest Hits (Clay Walker album)

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Background
Track listing
Personnel
Critical reception
Chart performance
Weekly charts Certifications
References

{{Infobox album
| name = Greatest Hits
| type = greatest
| artist = Clay Walker
| cover = Clay_Walker_-_Greatest_Hits_1998.jpg
| alt =
| released = June 9, 1998
| recorded =
| venue =
| studio =
| genre = Country
| length = 44:39
| label = Giant
| producer = James Stroud
| prev_title = Rumor Has It
| prev_year = 1997
| next_title = Live, Laugh, Love
| next_year = 1999
| misc = {{Singles
| name = Greatest Hits
| type = greatest
| single1 = Ordinary People
| single1date = May 5, 1998
| single2 = You're Beginning to Get to Me
| single2date = August 25, 1998
}}
}}

Greatest Hits is the first greatest hits compilation album by country music singer Clay Walker. It was released in 1998. Two previously unreleased tracks ("Ordinary People" and "You're Beginning to Get to Me") are included on this album; both were issued as singles in 1998. The former peaked at #35 on the Billboard country charts, while the latter was a #2 hit for Walker.

Background

In an interview with Tulsa World, Walker stated about the album, "I'm just kind of funny about the word "great' being used with my name, putting "great' with something I do ... I don't know. I'm really not that kind of guy"^[1]

Track listing

{{tracklist
| extra_column = Writer(s)
| title1 = What's It to You
| extra1 = Robert Ellis Orrall, Curtis Wright
| length1 = 2:47
| title2 = You're Beginning to Get to Me
| extra2 = Aaron Barker, Tom Shapiro
| length2 = 2:41
| title3 = Live Until I Die
| extra3 = Clay Walker
| length3 = 2:50
| title4 = This Woman and This Man
| extra4 = Michael Lunn, Jeff Pennig
| length4 = 4:22
| title5 = Dreaming with My Eyes Open
| extra5 = Tony Arata
| length5 = 3:30
| title6 = Rumor Has It
| extra6 = M. Jason Greene, Walker
| length6 = 3:09
| title7 = Hypnotize the Moon
| extra7 = Eric Kaz, Steve Dorff
| length7 = 3:38
| title8 = Then What?
| extra8 = Jon Vezner, Randy Sharp
| length8 = 3:03
| title9 = Where Do I Fit in the Picture
| extra9 = Walker
| length9 = 3:55
| title10 = If I Could Make a Living
| extra10 = Alan Jackson, Roger Murrah, Keith Stegall
| length10 = 2:12
| title11 = Ordinary People
| extra11 = Ed Hill, Craig Wiseman
| length11 = 3:49
| title12 = Only on Days That End in "Y"
| extra12 = Richard Fagan
| length12 = 2:45
| title13 = Watch This
| extra13 = Ron Harbin, Barker, Anthony L. Smith
| length13 = 3:10
| title14 = Who Needs You Baby
| extra14 = Walker, Kim Williams, Randy Boudreaux
| length14 = 2:48
}}

Personnel

Eddie Bayers – drums
Bruce Bouton – steel guitar
Mike Brignardello – bass guitar
Larry Byrom – acoustic guitar, electric guitar
Jimmy Carter – bass guitar
Steve Dorff – conductor, string arrangements
Dan Dugmore – steel guitar
Glen Duncan – fiddle
Stuart Duncan – fiddle, mandolin
Paul Franklin – dobro, steel guitar
Kyle Frederick – acoustic guitar
Sonny Garrish – steel guitar
Johnny Gimble – fiddle
Aubrey Haynie – fiddle
John Hobbs – piano
Jim Horn – saxophone
Byron House – bass guitar
Dann Huff – electric guitar
Jana King – background vocals
Terry McMillan – harmonica
Brent Mason – electric guitar
Tim Mensy – acoustic guitar
The Nashville String Machine – strings
Steve Nathan – keyboards, piano
Bobby Ogdin – piano
Larry Paxton – bass guitar
Van Rentz – piano
Tom Roady – percussion
Jason Roberts – fiddle
Matt Rollings – piano
Brent Rowan – acoustic guitar, electric guitar
John Wesley Ryles – background vocals
Tim Sargeant – steel guitar
Maxwell Schauf – drums
Leland Sklar – bass guitar
Joe Spivey – fiddle
Landon Taylor – electric guitar
Wayne Toups – accordion
Clay Walker – lead vocals
Billy Joe Walker Jr. – acoustic guitar
Lonnie Wilson – drums
Glenn Worf – bass guitar
Curtis Wright – background vocals
Curtis Young – background vocals

Critical reception

{{Album ratings
| rev1 = Allmusic
| rev1Score = {{Rating|4.5|5}}^[2]
| rev2 = Country Standard Time
| rev2Score = (favorable)^[3]
| rev3 = Sunday Mail
| rev3Score = (favorable)^[4]
}}

Kris Teo of Sunday Mail wrote "The material will never be confused with thinking man's country since it punches all the predictable thematic buttons. On this solid 14-track smoking-gun compilation, he celebrates the trials and tribulations of the common man."^[2] Jason Birchmeier of AllMusic gave the album four and a half stars and wrote, "you won't find a better one-disc summary of his prime."^[3] Walter Allread of Country Standard Time gave the album a favorable review.^[4]

Chart performance

During the week of June 27, 1998, the album sold over 35,000 units.^[5]

Weekly charts

Chart (1998)	Peak position
U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums	9
U.S. Billboard 200	41
Canadian RPM Country Albums	18

Certifications

Country	Certification
United States	Gold^[6]

References

1. ^Wooley, John Tulsa World 3 April 1998 The Old Country Clay Walker Just Can't Forget His Roots. He Doesn’t Even Want to Try
2. ^¹Teo, Kris Sunday Mail Soul sound of the future (19 July 1998)
3. ^¹{{cite web|last=Birchmeier |first=Jason |url=http://allmusic.com/album/greatest-hits-r352967 |title=Greatest Hits - Clay Walker |publisher=AllMusic |date=1998-06-09 |accessdate=2011-08-03}}
4. ^¹{{cite web|url=http://www.countrystandardtime.com/d/cdreview.asp?xid=569 |title=Clay Walker - Greatest Hits |publisher=Countrystandardtime.com |date=2007-10-23 |accessdate=2011-08-03}}
5. ^Billboard HATS OFF, WRANGLERS ON. (11 September 1999)
6. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.riaa.com/goldandplatinumdata.php?table=SEARCH_RESULTS&artist=Clay%20Walker&format=ALBUM=Clay%20Walker&go=Search&perPage=50# |title=Gold & Platinum - January 22, 1999|publisher=RIAA |date= |accessdate=2011-07-07}}

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