Producers: Andy Williams, Jimmy Bowen, Mike Curb.

Curb's Best of Country is a budget-priced disc featuring a mishmash of '90s recordings by Andy Williams. Among the ten tracks are "After All This Time," "Ship in a Bottle," and "If I Had You." With the wealth of Andy Williams material to choose from, this compilation should be avoided. ~ Al Campbell

Curb's Best of Country is a budget-priced disc featuring '90s recordings by Andy Williams. Among the ten tracks are "After All This Time," "Ship in a Bottle," and "If I Had You." ~ Al Campbell

Country music, with its imagery of the heartland, the great wide open, and the lonely life of the road, is a remarkable vehicle for the broad voice of Andy Williams. The crooner dons a Stetson hat and denim jacket as he achingly pines for a remote lover in "After All This Time" and "If I Had You." The irresistible twang of electric guitar, the railroad imagery, and Andy's sinewy delivery make "One Track Mem'ry" a quintessential country statement of raw feeling.

The mid-1970s production is apparent on all these wistful tunes. The basic drum tempo and guitar arrangement of "Last Chance" supplies a rhythmic support for Williams' moody vocal. These songs are for the trucker in all of us; there's a homey comfort in these inspirational tracks as we find ourselves careening down life's lonesome road.