AMG Review of Definitive Collection

Stephen Thomas Erlewine
All Music Guide

Containing a generous 24 tracks and spanning 17 years, from their first duet in 1971 to their final one in 1988, Mercury Nashville's 2005 compilation The Definitive Collection does indeed come close to being the final word on Conway Twitty & Loretta Lynn's classic duets. Not only does this contain all of their big hits -- "After the Fire Is Gone," "Lead Me On," "Louisiana Woman, Mississippi Man," "As Soon as I Hang Up the Phone," "The Letter," "I Can't Love You Enough," "You're the Reason Our Kids Are Ugly" among them -- it also contains album tracks from Conway and Loretta albums, making this an excellent overview of one of the best, most iconic duets in country music history.