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The Best of Jesse Winchester
The Best of Jesse Winchester
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wrote and recorded more than enough great songs for
to fill a single-disc compilation, which means that some of them were bound to be left off. The trick was to balance the material from the brilliant first two albums with a careful selection from the subsequent five albums, each of which had its virtues. This 14-track album chooses four from
, including the essential
and
and three from its follow-up,
. There are three from
, one each from
, and two from
. Lesser material such as
could have been excised in favor of more from
, but the selection is good enough to give a reasonable representation of
's seven
albums, which contain some of the most impressive songwriting of the '70s. ~ William Ruhlmann