FROM the early days of Boone Creek with Ricky Skaggs and as frontman with Pure Prairie League, I have always appreciated the talent of Vince Gill.

Since those early days he has earned 18 Country Music Association Awards and 20 Grammies (the most of any country music artist) and sold in excess of 18m albums.

A quote from the Country Music Hall of Fame says “as a singer, songwriter and musician (he has) become one of his generation’s great contributors to the ongoing vitality of country music.”

His albums have always contained an eclectic selection of songs complimented by great musicianship and his latest offering offers a collection of 14 bitter-sweet tracks. All are taken from his past 15 years of releases and he chants his way through past hits like: You And You Alone, Whenever You Come Around, Faint Of Heart and When Love Finds You.

It’s Vince Gill at his sentimental best, but I found myself wanting to hear a variation in mood and tempo. It’s the sort of album to listen to in front of a warm cosy fire, with a glass of wine with the hope that you don’t drift off to sleep before it ends.