I can't call myself a Roger Miller connoisseur. I'm just someone who knew they liked "King of the Road" and "England Swings", borrowed the&nbsp;<a data-hook="product-link-linked" class="a-link-normal" href="/20th-Century-Masters-The-Millennium-Collection-The-Best-of-Roger-Miller/dp/B00000K3WD/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_rvw_txt?ie=UTF8">20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection: The Best of Roger Miller</a>&nbsp;and liked just about all of it, and went looking for more. I can't claim to have heard all of Rog's output but if this box set encapsulates it, I'd say there's enough midrange and weak fare to balance out the truly stratospheric peaks.

HIGHS:
Besides de rigeur classics "King of the Road" and alcohol anthem "Chug-a-Lug", there's the inspired insanity of "You Can't Roller Skate in a Buffalo Herd", "Do Wacka Do", and "England Swings". Lest you believe Miller only capable of playing the jester, check out the deep heartbreak of "One Dyin' and a Buryin'" and "Husbands and Wives".

LOWS:
Disc 3 has a lot of cover songs and Miller isn't at his best doing other people's stuff. Not to say there aren't some great ones scattered in there, such as tender holiday offering "Little Toy Trains" or the everyday man philosophy expressed in "Where Have all the Average People Gone?" or lament "Hoppy's Gone". But the last disc is decidedly the weakest of the trio.

BOTTOM LINE:
Trimming this down to 2 CDs and packing them to the brim and adding in some of the missing Smash material others are complaining about (since the strongest material on here comes from 1964-1969) would probably serve Miller a bit better. This is still the best overview out there because even the better single CDs are missing some great material but I think 2 CDs would do the job adequately.

3 1/2 stars
I can't call myself a Roger Miller connoisseur. I'm just someone who knew they liked "King of the Road" and "England Swings", borrowed the&nbsp;<a data-hook="product-link-linked" class="a-link-normal" href="/20th-Century-Masters-The-Millennium-Collection-The-Best-of-Roger-Miller/dp/B00000K3WD/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_rvw_txt? ie=UTF8">20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection: The Best of Roger Miller</a>&nbsp;and liked just about all of it, and went looking for more. I can't claim to have heard all of Rog's output but if this box set encapsulates it, I'd say there's enough midrange and weak fare to balance out the truly stratospheric peaks. HIGHS:
Besides de rigeur classics "King of the Road" and alcohol anthem "Chug-a-Lug", there's the inspired insanity of "You Can't Roller Skate in a Buffalo Herd", "Do Wacka Do", and "England Swings". Lest you believe Miller only capable of playing the jester, check out the deep heartbreak of "One Dyin' and a Buryin'" and "Husbands and Wives". LOWS:
Disc 3 has a lot of cover songs and Miller isn't at his best doing other people's stuff. Not to say there aren't some great ones scattered in there, such as tender holiday offering "Little Toy Trains" or the everyday man philosophy expressed in "Where Have all the Average People Gone? " or lament "Hoppy's Gone". But the last disc is decidedly the weakest of the trio. BOTTOM LINE:
Trimming this down to 2 CDs and packing them to the brim and adding in some of the missing Smash material others are complaining about (since the strongest material on here comes from 1964-1969) would probably serve Miller a bit better. This is still the best overview out there because even the better single CDs are missing some great material but I think 2 CDs would do the job adequately. 3 1/2 stars