Probably, simply the most sure-to-be-legendary album that has come out so far this year in country music. The "King of Country Music" serves up 13 of the super hits that have earned him that nickname. It's all here. Fun George on "Adelida," " We Really Shouldn't Be Doing This," and "Round About Way." Incapable-of-being-bested balladeer George on "I Can Still Make Cheyenne," "You Can't Make A. Heart Love Somebody," " King Of The Mountain," and "Today My World Slipped Away," and of course, lover George in "Lead On," "Carried Away," and "One Night At A Time."

The two new songs include his current hit, the family story song "Best Day Of My Life" and a song that as it rises on the charts will start to kick the entire industry in the ... well, ahem, somewhere delicate and painful.

As those of you who follow my reviews know, while I am as big a Garth, Shania, et al, fan as anyone, the fact that the "Pop-ing" of country music AT THE EXPENSE of making country radio treat legends like they have the plague and are incapable of producing hit material is as heartbreaking to me, a lifelong country music expert, as anything since the Kenny Rogers/Barbara Mandrell-led saccharinizing of country music in the early 80's that nearly killed the genre. Critics like me whine, fans whine, a few radio people whine, but no one listens to ANY of us about this horror that still continues.

Now maybe they will.

The other new sure-to-be-monster hit off this CD has George and his pal, another traditional superstar of modern country, Alan Jackson singing about this despicable turn of events in Nashville in the 90s and they couldn't cut to the quick any deeper if they used a razor. " Murder On Music Row" laments in pure country style of the losing of the "Heart and Soul" of country music and lays the bloody evidence at Nashville's pop-crazy feet.

Even if Nashville doesn't wake up and listen to this aural castigation, all of us who worship country music MUST listen to this song.

This is simply another album across my desk this week that is as close to perfect as possible. Join the other gazillion people who have made this CD lock into the #1 position since its VERY recent release and run, don't walk and get it NOW. You get two joys for the price of one; a staggering song indicting the horror that much of modern country is, plus 14 other glorious examples that show great modern country does, indeed, still thrive.