AMG Review of Definitive Collection

Stephen Thomas Erlewine
All Music Guide

MCA's 2005 release The Definitive Collection expands upon its 2002 collection, All Time Greatest Hits. The 2002 disc contained 22 tracks, including all 16 of Loretta Lynn's ~Billboard number one country hits (including her duets with Conway Twitty). This collection contains every one of those 22 tracks, adding three iconic songs that weren't on All Time Greatest Hits: "Blue Kentucky Girl," "You're Lookin' at Country," and "The Pill." For those who own the 2002 disc, that may not be enough to warrant the purchase of this new collection, but it does make The Definitive Collection a stronger overview and the best single-disc Loretta retrospective yet assembled.