Greatest Hits (Clint Black album)

Greatest Hits
Compilation album by Clint Black
Released	September 24, 1996
Genre	Country
Length	57:45
Label	RCA
Producer	James Stroud, Clint Black
Clint Black chronology
Looking for Christmas (1995) Greatest Hits (1996) Nothin' but the Taillights (1997)

Greatest Hits is a 1996 compilation album by country singer Clint Black. It compiles twelve hit songs from his first five albums. It also includes four new tracks: the singles "Like the Rain" and "Half Way Up", as well as "Cadillac Jack Favor" and a live cover of the Eagles' "Desperado". Black had originally covered this song in 1993 for the album, Common Thread: The Songs of the Eagles.

The compilation was a commercial and critical success, currently certified at double platinum by the RIAA.

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	link
Entertainment Weekly	B link
Q	link
Robert Christgau	link

Track listing

All songs written by Clint Black and Hayden Nicholas, except where noted.

1. "Like the Rain" - 4:25
2. "Summer's Comin'" - 2:47
3. "A Good Run of Bad Luck" - 2:42
4. "State of Mind" (Black) - 3:53
5. "A Bad Goodbye" (Black) - 3:40
   • Duet with Wynonna Judd
6. "A Better Man" - 3:04
7. "Killin' Time" - 2:48
8. "We Tell Ourselves" - 4:38
9. "Half Way Up" - 3:58
10. "Burn One Down" (Black, Nicholas, Frankie Miller) - 3:49
11. "Cadillac Jack Favor" - 3:36 (based on rodeo star Jack Favor)
12. "Put Yourself in My Shoes" (Black, Nicholas, Shake Russell) - 3:14
13. "Wherever You Go" - 4:13
14. "Life Gets Away" (Black, Nicholas, Thom Schuyler) - 2:56
15. "No Time to Kill" - 4:00
16. "Desperado" (Glenn Frey, Don Henley) - 4:02
    • Live in San Antonio, Texas

Personnel

Charts

Album

Singles

References

• Greatest Hits [CD liner notes]. 1996. RCA Records.
• Artist Chart History (Singles). Billboard. Retrieved on January 1, 2007.
• Artist Chart History (Albums). Billboard. Retrieved on January 1, 2007.