Alan Jackson was one of the leading lights of contemporary country music in the '90s and the key to his success is that he managed to be straightforwardly traditional without sacrificing his taste for slightly mawkish sentimentality. The first tendency got him respect, the second sold him records, and if the latter is emphasized on "Greatest Hits, Vol. 2", that's because that's what hit the charts, particularly as he settled into his role as a veteran during the second half of the '90s, the period that this volume covers. There's little faulting this as a collection of hits, since it picks up precisely where 1995's Greatest Hits leaves off, then runs through all the hits in chronological order, adding two new songs -- the cheerful Jimmy Buffett duet "It's Five O'Clock Somewhere" and the slow, nostalgic "Remember When" -- at the end. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music Guide Released in 2004, 18 tracks, including:
01- Little Bitty
02- Everything I Love
03- Who's Cheatin' Who
04- There Goes
05- I'll Go on Loving You
06- Right on the Money
07- Gone Crazy
08- Little Man
09- Pop a Top
10- The Blues Man
11- It Must Be Love
12- www.memory
13- When Somebody Loves You
14- Where I Come From
15- Where Were You (When the World Stopped Turning)
16- Drive (For Daddy Gene)
17- It's Five O'Clock Somewhere
18- Remember When