Greatest hits

"Roy Clark compilations were curiously sparse during the CD era, which is what makes Craft's 2020 collection Greatest Hits so notable ... Greatest Hits runs all the way into 1980, when his Kenny Rogers soundalike "Chain Gang of Love" closed out his streak of Billboard Country Top 40 hits by peaking at 21. Having this closure is welcome but the compilation rightly focuses on Clark's big hits of the late '60s and '70s, when he was one of the biggest stars in country music thanks to his starring role on Hee Haw. Perhaps this downplays Clark's prodigious gifts as a guitarist, but it does tell a full tale of his country-pop crooning, which was so smooth it could slide onto easy listening airwaves with ease".

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