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- 16 Biggest Hits
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Ricky Van Shelton
Released 1999

I Meant Every Word He Said
03:01
6,665 plays

I'll Leave This World Loving You
03:08
6,144 plays

Life Turned Her That Way
03:21
5,956 plays

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- 1
- Somebody Lied
- 03:20
- 5,778 plays

- 2
- Life Turned Her That Way
- 03:21
- 5,956 plays

- 3
- Don't We All Have the Right
- 02:33
- 2,978 plays

- 4
- I'll Leave This World Loving You
- 03:08
- 6,144 plays

- 5
- From A Jack To A King
- 02:20
- 5,114 plays

- 6
- Living Proof
- 03:20
- 3,290 plays

- 7
- I've Cried My Last Tear For You
- 02:29
- 3,814 plays

- 8
- I Am A Simple Man
- 03:26
- 4,832 plays

- 9
- Keep It Between The Lines
- 03:49
- 5,602 plays

- 10
- Statue Of A Fool
- 03:03
- 4,253 plays

- 11
- I Meant Every Word He Said
- 03:01
- 6,665 plays

- 12
- Backroads
- 03:42
- 4,589 plays

- 13
- (I Got) A Hole In My Pocket
- 02:31
- 2,498 plays

- 14
- Life's Little Ups and Downs
- 03:37
- 3,322 plays

- 15
- Crime Of Passion
- 03:22
- 5,543 plays

- 16
- Wild Man
- 03:18
- 3,165 plays

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album review

Ricky Van Shelton scored 16 Top Ten country solo hits between 1987 and 1993, and they are all on this appropriately named compilation, which is sequenced in hit order: first the ten number ones, then the three number twos, and so on. Van Shelton came in on the neo-traditionalist wave of the mid-'80s, and his hits spotlight such veteran country songwriters as Harlan Howard, Roger Miller, and Boudleaux and Felice Bryant and include revivals of standards like "From a Jack to a King." They also exhibit the sentiment and wordplay typical of the country songwriting craft on such newly composed works as the philosophical "Keep It Between the Lines" and the romantic twist of "I Meant Every Word He Said." As country veered toward pop in the Garth-and-Shania era of the '90s, sturdy talents like Van Shelton struggled, but this thorough collection of his most popular material confirms his veneration of traditional country and his status as one of its latter day masters. ~ William Ruhlmann, All Music Guide