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Title: Not the Best by a Long Shot
Review: This collection is a major disappointment. The songs are uniformly bland and certainly not the best of these artists. Most feature a tuneless lyric sung to a gently strummed guitar with soporific keyboard decoration. For example, Nanci Griffith is represented by "Spin on a Red Brick Floor" and Sarah Mclachlan is represented by "Shelter." Never heard of these tunes? You're not alone. The one standout is "Orbiting Jupiter" by Cheryl Wheeler, but there's nothing else approaching it in quality. My guess is a bunch of crappy songs were chosen for licensing reasons. If you're interested in listening to a good collection of contemporary singer-songwriters, keep searching.
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