Now Country Volume 3

Various Artists (Artist), Kenny Chesney (Artist), Lady Antebellum (Artist), Brad Paisley (Artist), Rascal Flatts (Artist), Keith Urban (Artist), George Strait (Artist), Dierks Bentley (Artist), Little Big Town (Artist), Luke Bryan (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 14, 2010)
• Original Release Date: 2010
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Capitol
• ASIN: B003XU901E
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #12,149 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

2010 collection, the third installment in the NOW...Country series. This volume follows the tremendous success of the previous two, which have scanned a combined 731,000 units to date. Every album in the NOW series has reached the Billboard Top 10, and it is the only non-soundtrack, multi-artist collection to reach the #1 status on the Billboard Top 200 Album Sales Chart. Includes tracks from Lady Antebellum, Kenny Chesney, George Strait, Easton Corbin, Martina McBride and many others.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Very Solid Collection, September 16, 2010

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Emgee (USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Now Country Volume 3 (Audio CD)

The third volume of the Now That's What I Call Country series is a solid collection of great tracks with few missteps.

The Positives:

Kenny Chesney's "Ain't Back Yet" is nice to see on the collection since it was part of a re-issue of his Greatest Hits II package which I refused to repurchase. I didn't even like the song too much at the time, but it grew on me and I'm glad it's on this collection.

Zac Brown Band's "Highway 20 Ride" is one of the few songs I've really liked by that group, so I wouldn't buy their CD, but again, glad this song made it onto this collection.

Similarly are the songs included by Josh Turner and Martina McBride, where I generally like their singles but don't run out to pick up their albums.

Keith Urban's "Til Summer Comes Around" is one of the best tracks off of Defying Gravity and is great to have on this collection. Anything by Rascal Flatts or Lady Antebellum is always welcome, as are Gary Allan and Brad Paisley (despite the fact that I have all of the music by all four of these artists). Chris Young's "The Man I Want To Be" such a touching song.

The Missteps:

Easton Corbin. While "A Little More Country Than That" isn't a horribly unbearable song, Corbin tries too hard to sound like a copycat voice of George Strait, which just makes the performance less enjoyable (when I want to hear George Strait, I put on my George Strait CD (or go to Track 8 of this collection)). It's a listenable song, but one I won't be adding to the MP3 Player.

Also, I would have liked to have seen a few more female vocalists. This, could be solved (along with misstep #3 of having 16 tracks instead of the usual 20)) by adding Reba's "Keep On Loving You," Taylor Swift's "Fearless," "White Liar" or "The House That Built Me" by Miranda Lambert (and one more track, maybe something by Brooks & Dunn).

The missteps don't devalue the collection. Well worth purchasing.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars great country music, January 20, 2011

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Helen - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Now Country Volume 3 (Audio CD)

enjoy this C. D. very much. I like differt singers this way I get most of them without having to buy all of the C. D.'s.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great compilation, October 27, 2010

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Joyce M. Rosenberg (Rancho Cordova, CA United States) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Now Country Volume 3 (Audio CD)

A wonderful collection of the latest country songs with the finest in country singers. Loved it.