A double-CD, career-spanning retrospective that offers little in the way of surprises: it's a tastefully selected overview of her career highlights, heaviest (and justifiably so) on her late '60s albums. There's the inevitable feeling of letdown as disc two progresses; her post-early '70s material is far less interesting than her earliest work, even if it's inoffensive. All of the first five albums (through 1971's Gonna Take a Miracle) are now on CD, so this is most suitable for the fan who isn't passionate enough to be a completist. Includes a couple of previously unreleased live tracks from the 1990s; the version of "Sweet Blindness," unfortunately, is not the original late-'60s recording, but from a late-'70s live album.
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AllMusic Review by Richie Unterberger
Track Listing - Disc 1
| Title/Composer | Performer | Time | Stream | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2:53 | SpotifyAmazon | ||||
| 2 | 2:19 | Spotify | ||||
| 3 | 3:17 | SpotifyAmazon | ||||
| 4 | 2:45 | SpotifyAmazon | ||||
| 5 | 2:38 | SpotifyAmazon | ||||
| 6 | 2:45 | SpotifyAmazon | ||||
| 7 | 3:57 | Spotify | ||||
| 8 | 3:47 | SpotifyAmazon | ||||
| 9 | 3:23 | SpotifyAmazon | ||||
| 10 | 4:19 | SpotifyAmazon | ||||
| 11 | 2:48 | SpotifyAmazon | ||||
| 12 | 3:13 | Amazon | ||||
| 13 | 4:41 | SpotifyAmazon | ||||
| 14 | 5:33 | SpotifyAmazon | ||||
| 15 | 2:25 | Amazon | ||||
| 16 | 3:34 | SpotifyAmazon | ||||
| 17 | 5:33 | SpotifyAmazon | ||||
| 18 | 4:47 | SpotifyAmazon | ||||
| 19 | 2:42 | SpotifyAmazon |
Track Listing - Disc 2
| Title/Composer | Performer | Time | Stream | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1:50 | Spotify | ||||
| 2 | 2:58 | Spotify | ||||
| 3 | 5:38 | Spotify | ||||
| 4 | 3:53 | SpotifyAmazon | ||||
| 5 | 5:52 | |||||
| 6 | 5:00 | Spotify | ||||
| 7 | 2:57 | Spotify | ||||
| 8 | 3:17 | SpotifyAmazon | ||||
| 9 | 4:10 | Spotify | ||||
| 10 | 3:32 | Spotify | ||||
| 11 | 3:51 | Spotify | ||||
| 12 | 3:31 | Spotify | ||||
| 13 | 3:17 | SpotifyAmazon | ||||
| 14 | 2:48 | Spotify | ||||
| 15 | 2:42 |
