''Greatest Hits, Vol. 1'' is the first compilation album by American country music artist Phil Vassar, released on May 2, 2006. This was Vassar's most popular album, along with being his final album for Arista Nashville, it consists of songs from Vassar's first three records: 2000's '' Phil Vassar, 2002's ''

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, and 2004's ''

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''. Also included are his own versions of songs that he wrote for other country music artists before beginning his solo singing career: "Bye, Bye" and " I'm Alright" (previously recorded by

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), "For a Little While" and "My Next Thirty Years" (previously recorded by Tim McGraw) and "Little Red Rodeo" (previously recorded by Collin Raye). Three newly recorded songs — "Twenty One", "Last Day of My Life", and "The Woman in My Life" — are also included on this compilation. The latter two were released as singles, peaking at #2 and #20, respectively, on the ''

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charts. ''Greatest Hits, Vol. 1'' was re-released in 2011 as ''Playlist: The Very Best of Phil Vassar''. Both albums have an identical track listing.

Track listing

Personnel on New Tracks

* Jim "Moose" Brown - keyboards,

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* Steven J. Caldwell - drums * Chad Cromwell - drums *

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- percussion *

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- fiddle * David Grissom - acoustic guitar, electric guitar *

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- fiddle * Russ Pahl -

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, 12-string guitar, electric guitar,

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* Clayton Ryder -

accordion Accordions (from 19th-century German ''Akkordeon'', from ''Akkord''—"musical chord, concord of sounds") are a family of box-shaped musical instruments of the bellows-driven free-reed aerophone type (producing sound as air flows past a reed ...

, Hammond organ * Jeff Smith - electric guitar, background vocals * Bryan Sutton - acoustic guitar,

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* Phil Vassar - piano, lead vocals, background vocals * Glenn Worf - bass guitar

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

References

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