20 Greatest Hits

by Suzy Bogguss

Overview

Arguably, Suzy Bogguss did more than anybody to change the role of the female vocalist during the 1990s. Certainly she racked up her share of hits -- which are chronicled without fault on this collection. But more than that, she was a singer who weathered the Nash Vegas storms with grace, took control of her own career, and became producer of her own recordings. She selected material rather than having Jimmy Bowen -- the cohort in the producer's chair -- select it for her. She broke all the rules regarding genres from Western Swing yodels (Patsy Montana's "I Wanna Be A Cowboy's Sweetheart") to cowboy songs (Ian Tyson's "Someday Soon"), modern Americana (John Hiatt's "Drive South" and Nanci Griffith's "Outbound Plane"), to recording the work of cutting-edge Nashville songwriters such as Matraca Berg and Gary Harrison ("Diamonds And Tears" and "Eat At Joe's"), as well as Kim Richey's "From Where I Stand," to songwriting "One More For The Road" and "Far And Way" with Doug Crider, to interpreting the classics (Jimmie Rodgers' "In The Jailhouse Now"). It's one thing to record songs of a different stripe and to break down the barriers between genres; it's quite another to make hit records while doing so, which is exactly what Bogguss did at Capitol in the 1990s. She and Pam Tillis made it possible for singers like Martina McBride, Shania Twain, Bobbie Cryner, and Deana Carter to arrive -- and even eventually eclipse them -- due to the fickle nature by which Nashville's radio geeks (yes, geeks) dictate what the populace wants to hear rather than something that might actually be considered incredible and groundbreaking country music. These 20 cuts offer a vivid and extremely pleasurable look at a run that has succeeded n making Suzy Bogguss one of the rare ones -- an artist in full control of her destiny. When she walked away to concentrate on her family, she did so from the top. Now that she's back, 20 Greatest Hits serves as a guidepost to wherever she's moved to now musically. This is '90s country at its very best, and the only thing that might be finer than this collection is to possess the actual albums these songs came from so that one can search for more of Bogguss' hidden gems. ~ Thom Jurek

Product Details

Release Date:	09/17/2002
Label:	Liberty / Capitol
UPC:	0724354069123
Rank:	40891

Tracks

1. Drive South
2. Aces
3. I Want to Be a Cowboy's Sweetheart
4. Letting Go
5. Outbound Plane
6. Just Like the Weather
7. Somebody to Love
8. In the Jailhouse Now
9. Cross My Broken Heart
10. Someday Soon
11. Hey Cinderella
12. Forget About It
13. Cold Day in July
14. One More for the Road
15. Far and Away
16. Diamonds and Tears
17. Under the Gun
18. From Where I Stand
19. Eat at Joe's
20. Give Me Some Wheels

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Suzy Bogguss   Primary Artist
Chet Atkins   Primary Artist

Technical Credits

Verlon Thompson   Composer
Hugh Prestwood   Composer
Nanci Griffith   Composer
Jimmie Rodgers   Composer
Richard Leigh   Composer
R.L. Kass   Composer
Matt Rollings   Composer
Matraca Berg   Composer
Tia Sillers   Composer
Suzy Bogguss   Composer
Ian Tyson   Composer
John Hiatt   Composer
Jack Russell   Composer
Gary Harrison   Composer
Nancy Henderson   Liner Notes
Randee Saint Nicholas   Photography
Katherine Stratton   Design
Joanna Carter   Art Direction
Robert Lee Castleman   Composer
Denise Jarvis   Producer
Jimmy Rodgers   Composer
Patsy Montana   Composer
Bill Kennedy   Compilation Producer
Chet Atkins   Composer
Kye Fleming   Composer
Cheryl Wheeler   Composer
Larry Russell   Composer
Kim Richey   Composer
Doug Crider   Composer