| Definitive Collection | 
 enlarge | Artist: Chely Wright
Label: Mca Nashville
Category: Music
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Avg. Customer Rating:  16 reviews
Sales Rank: 102935
Format: Original Recording Remastered
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 000813402
UPC: 602517167056
EAN: 0602517167056
ASIN: B000NA1ZLU
Release Date: March 13, 2007
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Condition: Brand new sealed. In stock in our warehouse, and ships right now. 20% chance the case has a crack or two.
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| Tracks:
| • | Shut Up and Drive - Chely Wright, Rutherford, Rivers | | • | He's a Good Ole Boy - Chely Wright, Howard, Harlan | | • | Till I Was Loved by You - Chely Wright, Irwin, Mark | | • | I Love You Enough to Let You Go - Chely Wright, Caswell, Bill | | • | Sea of Cowboy Hats - Chely Wright, Wright, Chely | | • | Listenin' to the Radio - Chely Wright, Russ, Sunny | | • | The Love That We Lost - Chely Wright, Burr, Gary | | • | Just Another Heartache - Chely Wright, Sanders, Mark D. | | • | I Already Do - Chely Wright, Burr, Gary | | • | Feelin' Single and Seein' Double - Chely Wright, Kemp, Wayne | | • | Single White Female - Chely Wright, Johnson, Carol [Exc | | • | It Was - Chely Wright, Burr, Gary | | • | Picket Fences - Chely Wright, Wright, Chely | | • | She Went out for Cigarettes - Chely Wright, McElroy, Jon | | • | Never Love You Enough - Chely Wright, James, Brett | | • | Jezebel - Chely Wright, Hummon, Marcus | | • | Back of the Bottom Drawer - Chely Wright, Wright, Chely | | • | The Bumper of My S.U.V. - Chely Wright, Wright, Chely |
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 The Definitive Singer May 25, 2007
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
In my view, Chely Wright is one of the best singers in music in any genre. I have every album she's made, including an autographed copy of this, The Definitive Collection and an excellent retrospective to showcase her talent. Chely has been on the Country Music scene since 1994's Woman on the Moon, and since then has made Right in the Middle of It (1996), Let Me In (1997), her breakthrough album Single White Female (1999 - RIAA certified Gold), Never Love You Enough (2001) and something I personally consider to be a masterpiece of songwriting, vocal delivery and musicanship, 2005's The Metropolitan Hotel. She is also currently working on another album.
If you're interested in buying this "best of", then do so, as it is a great place to start. Chely has a wonderfully unique voice. She sings in alto and, I think, makes every phrase a portrait of perfection.
Chely works with a whole host of excellent songwriters and is also an accomplished songwriter in her own ... wright, as Back of the Bottom Drawer, among others, will show. This CD also shows how her musicality has grown. In the first couple of tracks from her debut album, they are undeniably country, but then go into soft ballad territory in the songs from Let Me In, like "Just Another Heartache" and "I Already Do". One of my favourite songs by any artist "The Love That We Lost", is also here. We then go into Country Pop waters with "Single White Female", which sees Chely putting an ad in the paper: "I'm a single white female/Lookin' for the perfect lover/To put it in a nutshell/A one woman man who doesn't want no other".
And we also touch ballads again with the gentle "Picket Fences", which is another Chely wrote herself. "Never Love You Enough" takes us further into pop: "I could kiss you in the rain forever/Turn all of your pain to pleasure/Fill up all your days with sunlight/Make the passion last every night."
And then we reach "Back of the Bottom Drawer", the lead single to The Metropolitan Hotel, in which she plays a woman who keeps old mementoes of past, mildstone relationships in the back of her drawer.
"A napkin that is stained with time
Has a poem on it that didn't quite rhyme, but it made me cry
In a 'Dear Jane' letter from a different guy
He broke up with me and he told me I'm not always right
And a stolen key from an old hotel room door
In the back of the bottom drawer"
The last song is the famous "Bumper of My SUV", which Chely wrote after a woman past her in the car, saw a sticker saying United States Marines and derided Chely, assuming she knew the patriatism and pride which made Chely put the sticker there in the first place. The song, which Chely performed while entertaining American troops in Iraq (something she has done repeatedly since - on the front line) was never initially planned to be a single, but through word of mouth, drifted over the Atlantic and was played on radio so much that it eventually became yet another hit for Chely.
This is The Definitive Collection, from who I consider to be The Definitive Singer, Chely Wright.
 Not Chely's Best March 17, 2007
3 out of 6 found this review helpful
This is an anthology of Chely Wright's music, but it doesnt collect her best songs. In truth, Chely has released 2 good CDs (Let Me In; Single White Female); the rest of her CDs have been mediocre. The problem with the Definitive Collection is that it collects songs from the Mediocre CDs as well as the good CDs.
Most of the songs on this CD bombed at radio; there is a good reason why. People wouldn't listen to songs like "Sea of Cowboy Hats" for free. Don't make the mistake of paying for them.
Instead of this CD, I recommend purchasing "Single White Female" by Chely. It has fewer songs, but it has more high-quality songs. I would recommend quality over quantity.
Must have for any music and chely fan March 13, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is a must have CD !!!! It contains some of chely's top hits showcasing her amazing vocals and songwriting. perfect gift for family, friends and making sure is in your cd player in the car. What a great way to get your chely favorites in one place. most definately worth purchasing.
Biggest Collection of Chely Wright Ever March 14, 2007
Don't waste your money on 20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection: The Best of Chely Wright because it's missing 6 tracks. This collection also features all singles from her out-of-print Woman In The Moon album from 1994. I recommend this to any county music fan.
 The Best Songs Released by a Mediocre Singer March 16, 2007
2 out of 5 found this review helpful
Chely Wright never attained much success at country radio or at the cash register. She only had one top ten single on radio according to Billboard. And, she only has one gold album.
This "Definitive Collection" CD shows why Chely never had much success. It collects her best singles (all but one song was a radio single); but of the 17 singles here, only about 4 are memorable. And that was Chely's problem. She would release one great song, and follow it up with two mediocre songs. As a result, she could never get any momentum going with her career.
There are a few great moments here, but its mostly forgetable. There are far better CDs in the Definitive Collection series.
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