The Greatest Hits Collection is the first compilation album by American country music duo Brooks & Dunn. It was released in 1997 (see 1997 in country music) on Arista Nashville, and it chronicles the greatest hits from their first four studio albums: 1991's Brand New Man, 1993's Hard Workin' Man, 1994's Waitin' on Sundown, and 1996's Borderline. The album also includes three new tracks, two of which were released as singles: "Honky Tonk Truth" and "He's Got You", which respectively reached #3 and #2 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks (now Hot Country Songs) charts. In 2004, a sequel, The Greatest Hits Collection II, was released.
The album was certified 4× Platinum by the RIAA on July 21, 2005. It has sold 4,608,400 copies in the United States as of April 2017.
Contents
Track listing
ANewly recorded tracks.
BPreviously Unreleased
Personnel on new tracks
Compiled from the liner notes.
Brooks & Dunn
Kix Brooks – lead vocals on "Days of Thunder", background vocals
Ronnie Dunn – lead vocals on "Honky Tonk Truth" and "He's Got You", background vocals
Additional musicians
Bruce Bouton – steel guitar
Dennis Burnside – Hammond organ
Steve Gibson – acoustic guitar
Rob Hajacos – fiddle
Wes Hightower – background vocals
David Hungate – bass guitar
John Barlow Jarvis – piano
Liana Manis – background vocals
Brent Mason – electric guitar
Terry McBride – background vocals
John Wesley Ryles – background vocals
Lonnie Wilson – drums, percussion