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The Best Of The Gatlins: All The Gold In California,Gatlin Brothers

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Gatlin Brothers
Released 1996

Love Is Just A Game
03:30
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She Used To Be Somebody's Baby
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Sweet Becky Walker
03:00
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songs

- 1
- Sweet Becky Walker
- 03:00
- 721 plays

- 2
- Delta Dirt
- 02:12
- 359 plays

- 3
- Broken Lady
- 02:37
- 2,914 plays

- 4
- Statues Without Hearts
- 02:42
- 492 plays

- 5
- I Don't Wanna Cry
- 02:47
- 664 plays

- 6
- Love Is Just A Game
- 03:30
- 906 plays

- 7
- I Just Wish You Were Someone I Love
- 03:11
- 710 plays

- 8
- I've Done Enough Dyin' Today
- 04:07
- 622 plays

- 9
- All The Gold In California
- 02:37
- 6,138 plays

- 10
- Take Me To Your Lovin' Place
- 02:44
- 415 plays

- 11
- What Are We Doin' Lonesome
- 02:31
- 349 plays

- 12
- Sure Feels Like Love
- 03:30
- 328 plays

- 13
- Houston (Means I'm One Day Closer To You)
- 02:54
- 2,288 plays

- 14
- Denver
- 03:40
- 436 plays

- 15
- The Lady Takes The Cowboy Everytime
- 02:49
- 653 plays

- 16
- She Used To Be Somebody's Baby
- 03:19
- 804 plays

- 17
- Talkin' To The Moon
- 03:31
- 519 plays

- 18
- Love Of A Lifetime
- 03:01
- 333 plays

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album review

This 18-track compilation, Best of the Gatlins: All the Gold in California, traces the work of Larry Gatlin, his brothers, family, and friends (as the various billings on the records had it) from 1975 to 1988. A greatest-hits collection, it slightly favors Gatlin's early work, including "Sweet Becky Walker" and "Delta Dirt," which were among his first chart singles, while skipping "Night Time Magic" and "Nothing But Your Love Matters," which were bigger hits. Otherwise, it's all country Top Ten singles, including the number ones "I've Done Enough Dyin' Today," "All the Gold in California," and "Houston (Means I'm One Day Closer to You)." Gatlin, who wrote all the songs and sings all the lead vocals, has a traditionalist bent, though the productions are not as lush as the '60s Nashville sound, the romantic lyrics are more erotic (it was the '70s, after all), and the best songs, such as "All the Gold in California," are unique efforts thematically and musically. (The unnecessarily brief 55-minute CD running time is probably due to song publishing royalties: all the albums in Columbia/Legacy's Country Classics series have only 18 tracks.) ~ William Ruhlmann, All Music Guide