Only Country 1985-1989 (1995)

About this title: It's Only Country 1985-1989 follows the pattern of JCI's It's Only series, offering a seemingly random collection of 20 hits from a given genre for a period of five years. These songs weren't necessarily the biggest hits of these five years, although there are a number of classics and smashes here. It may be hard to deduce exactly why these songs were chosen, but the end results are nevertheless quite entertaining. All of the songs are featured in their original hit versions, not remakes, which isn't always the case with midline country collections. Furthermore, there a few cuts that aren't ... read more

Tracks:

1. Life's Highway [Leigh/Murrah]
2. A Little Bit in Love [Earle]
3. Burnin' a Hole in My Heart [Ewing/Geiger/Mullis]
4. Somewhere Tonight [Howard/Crowell]
5. Touch and Go Crazy [Garvin/Shapiro/Jone]
6. I Won't Take Less Than Your Love [Overstreet/Schlitz]
7. I Fell in Love Again Last Night [Overstreet/Schuyler]
8. Walkin' a Broken Heart [Rush/Linde]
9. Julia [Jarvis/Cook]
10. What's a Memory Like You (Doing in a Love Like This) [Quillen/Jarrard]
11. Living Proof [MacRae/Clark]
12. Crazy from the Heart [Bellamy/Schlitz]
13. Nothing I Can Do About It Now [Chapman]
14. Working Man [Hurt/Reynolds]
15. No Matter How High [Stevens/Scarbury]
16. Baby's Got Her Blue Jeans On [McDill]
17. Love Someone Like Me [Dunn/Foster]
18. Cry Cry Cry [Cash]
19. Bop [Davis/Kimball]
20. Diggin' up Bones [Gore/Overstreet/Stu]

Note: This is a general synopsis. Each listing is further described below.