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| New Orleans' own sweet, soulful singing sensation. Tell It Like It Is and Don't Know Much (with Linda Ronstadt), Everybody Plays The Fool, more. |
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| 1 Tell It Like It Is |
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| 2 Over You |
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| 3 The Bells |
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| 4 Don't Take Away My Heaven |
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| 5 Warm Your Heart |
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| 6 You Never Can Tell |
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| 7 Close Your Eyes |
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| 8 The Grand Tour |
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| 9 Louisiana 1927 |
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| 10 Everybody Plays the Fool |
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| 11 Don't Go, Please Stay |
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| 12 Angola Bound |
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| 13 A Change Is Gonna Come |
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| 14 Betcha by Golly, Wow |
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| 15 Stardust |
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| 16 Use Me |
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| 17 ...To Make Me Who I Am |
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| 18 Don't Know Much |
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Album Review
In some ways, "The Very Best of Aaron Neville" is a very welcome addition to his catalog, since it's the first collection to touch on all areas of Neville's long career. However, it winds up being a bit unsatisfying, not just because it only has one cut from the Neville Brothers, but because his New Orleans R&B and down-home soul just don't fit that well with his smooth, cleanly produced latter-day work. Then again, the compilers didn't spend too much time with the early recordings, since the collection contains only a handful of R&B nuggets (including, of course, "Tell It Like It Is," plus "Over You") before settling into the '80s and '90s albums. It's not a bad summary of those albums, actually, containing such hits as "Don'T Know Much" and "Everybody Plays The Fool," plus a good cross-section of album tracks and lesser-known cuts, such as his version of "Stardust" with Rob Wasserman. As such, "The Very Best of Aaron Neville" is recommended primarily to fans of his later recordings. Listeners who prefer the early R&B work or the Neville Brothers should look to compilations of that material, since they won't be satiated by this disc. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music Guide
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