ERIN HAY: THE COLLECTION (Greatest Hits)

Erin Hay

THE COLLECTION (Greatest Hits)

© 2006 Westwood Int'l. Records (634479423536)

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5 brand new songs along with 18 favorites from previous albums by Erin Hay.

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Erin was born and raised in Southern California. Born to Edward (who sadly passed away from Cancer when Erin was only six years old) and Patricia Hay on November 25, 1970, she has always been a performer and has always loved music. In fact, if you listen to her mom, she'll tell you Erin "sang" her first song at 3 months old. She was exposed to all kinds of music growing up, from her mother's Frank Sinatra, Rosemary Clooney and Judy Garland albums to her two older brothers (Joe and Ken) playing Rock and Roll to her Dad's favorite, Marty Robbins. But at age seven, when Erin heard Dolly Parton sing for the first time, her love and admiration for traditional Country Music began to grow. She discovered Loretta Lynn after the film Coal Miner's Daughter came out and soon after discovered Tammy Wynette. These great ladies, along with the likes of George Jones, Jack Greene and Roy Acuff, became her influences, and it was through them that Erin was introduced to stories of Nashville and the Grand Ole Opry. She quickly took to the music and to the tradition. This is what she loves to sing.

Although singing was a great love of hers, it seemed acting was more of a calling throughout school. In 1987, Erin entered the Fountain Valley Jr. Miss Pageant and won the Performing Arts Award for performing a comedic monologue from Lily Tomlin's one woman show, "The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe." Erin had plans of attending UCLA as a Theatre Arts major. She had aspirations of following in the footsteps of her two other idols, Lucille Ball and Carol Burnett. This, of course, never happened. While attending college in California, Erin realized she did not take the acting craft as seriously as everyone else did. What she did take seriously was her music. Erin knew in her heart that Nashville was where she wanted to be. The real turning point came after a visit backstage at the Grand Ole Opry and a meeting with Mr. Roy Acuff. That was the environment she longed for. She wanted to sing on that stage and knew she had some dues to pay.

Erin moved to Nashville in 1991 with her mother to attend Belmont University as a Music Business major. Since the move, she has interned at RCA Records and Sony Music, recorded many demos for Nashville songwriters and performed at many Nashville clubs. Erin recorded her first independent album in 1992 with the help of producer and songwriter, Lonnie Ratliff. It was a cassette tape compiled mostly of demo recordings and included a song called "Somebody's Angel," which she later re-recorded. Erin graduated from Belmont in 1995 and was hired by a film production company in Nashville, working with such artists as Garth Brooks, Faith Hill and Janet Jackson in the behind the scenes aspects of live concert TV production and music videos, eventually venturing into the freelance film production world. But Erin's first love was still her music. She completed her second independent album, Honky Tonk Heaven, in October of 2000. It received great reviews around the world and was a #6 import CD in the UK in April of 2000. Erin released her third independent album, The Circle, in 2001-fourteen cuts of the music she loves, music she hopes would have made Mr. Acuff proud. She is proud to have two duets on that album with Grand Ole Opry stars Ernie Ashworth ("Gotta Travel On") and Jack Greene (Tommy Collins' song, "High On A Hilltop.") Erin is also very proud of the liner note her idol, Loretta Lynn, graced her with for the project:
"Erin is a great singer. Maybe the Opry will find that out someday. I love her singing."

Dolly Parton also graced Erin with a treasured quote about the Parton-penned song she recorded on The Circle, "Tomorrow Is Forever:"

"I am so proud of the record Erin did on "Tomorrow Is Forever." I think she did a beautiful job. It’s always been one of my favorite songs; and it touched me that it was someone else’s favorite as well. It’s old, but so am I! Hopefully, songs live forever. It’s always nice to have new, young artists record them."


The Circle album became a #3 import CD in the UK in February 2002. In August of 2004, she got hired on at a business management company in Nashville, working with such clients as Blake Shelton and Craig Morgan. In 2005, she released her 4th album titled Somebody's Angel, which was also very well received. One of the singles off the album, a song written by Bill Jackson called "The Tree," gave Erin her biggest overseas chart success to date. Erin released her 5th album in 2006, a collection of songs from her 3 previous albums and 5 cuts from an upcoming project titled Blue Country Song, due out the end of 2007.

Erin also enjoyed a lot of success on mp3.com, a website that was devoted to independent artists. She has obtained a wide following in the European/overseas market (largely due to the mp3.com exposure,) being dubbed the "New Queen of the Honky Tonk Angels." Erin's song, "I Got the Blues Again," is one of the most downloaded Country songs to date on mp3.com, and it was featured in the Robert Altman/Alan Rudolph film, Trixie, in 2000. She is very grateful to the people of mp3.com and to the overseas and US disc jockeys playing her music. Erin has traveled to Denmark, Australia and Sweden to perform and is looking forward to many more performances both overseas and in the US. She is definitely having fun on her road to the Grand Ole Opry, and if Erin is destined to sing on that great stage someday, it will be the pinnacle in her singing career, not just a stepping stone.






"When it's too Country for everyone else, it's JUST RIGHT for me!" - Erin Hay

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  • A warmth that oozes out of every groove
    author: Blazing Boots - United Kingdom

    Erin Hay - The Collection ___________ Erin Hay is without doubt one of the most underated Female country singers on the circuit today. With a voice that's distinctly her own and a warmth that oozes out of every groove (do they still have grooves on CD's)._______________ If you haven't already bought an Erin Hay CD and why you haven't I'll never know but anyway you just got lucky, the collection is just what it say's a collection of 23 songs from previous albums apart from the first 5 tracks which are new. _______________________ With previous favourites like False Eyelashes, The Circle, Mirror Mirror(on the wall), Country classics which highlight Erin Hay's love of great country music and the fact that this girl sticks to her roots. You're Good Girls Gonna Go Bad, Harper Valley PTA, Take Me Home Country Roads (a great version), you can download this album from itunes and at (UK Price) a mere £7.99 this a great price to pay for 23 tracks of pure country music. With class oozing from every track you won't be disappointed.

  • Great Contry Music as it should be sung
    author: Barry Wass

    For those who missed out on this country songbird's earlier albums, the Collection has it all. Great covers of Classic tunes, Don't worry about me, If teardrops were pennies and My shoes keep walking back to you. Terrific originals, Midnight at the old soldiers home, Leaning on a rock that never rolls, this cd has something for every fan of Real Country Music. Listen to Erin's cover of Japanese super star Hank Sasaki's Tennessee Moon and Honky tonk girl, you will play this cd again and again.

  • author: judy kanyo

    I won this cd in a contest and I thought it was very good. My favorite song was WALK ON BY

  • Erin Hay remains consistent and consistently good
    author: George Peden - Country Stars Online

    Erin Hay - The Collection By: George Peden, CSO Staff Journalist Her catch-phrase is a revealing truth. For talented Erin Hay "When it’s too country for everyone else, it’s just right for me" is more about attitude than a boastful declaration. And just right it is, as her latest release The Collection (Westwood Int'l. Records) proves. Drawing popular cuts from three previous albums and five tracks from her upcoming Blue Country Song album, this Southern California-raised and now Nashville-based singer and songwriter delivers strongly across an album of toe-tappers, weepers and traditional country fare. It’s easily understood, given the talent here, how she’s been one of the Internet’s most downloaded on country music sites. Now with 23 of her best, Hay with long-time pal and musical mentor Lonnie Ratliff has something here that spans her career chase that started with her Nashville arrival in ‘91. That’s not to say Erin Hay hasn’t already earned fan and industry interest. She has. She’s toured Europe and Australia; and she’s well regarded on the American Indie circuit. But that final breakthrough, that final industry embrace, has eluded her. Maybe that’s about to change. She has the voice, she has the style and with this album, providing it snags the needed interest, she could have the fame. She’s done the hard yards, she’s worn the shoe leather, and she’s certainly a worthy waiter in the wings. Her best of may just be the blowtorch to create the needed smoke and fire. The album kicks to life with "I’d Be In Memphis". Spirited and engaging, piano, steel and guitar lead the charge on a track that mines misery, but in the most musical of ways. Strength and determinism show up on the Hay and Ratliff-penned "Leaning On A Rock That Never Rolls", while the stain and shadow of war and its aftermath echo on "Midnight At The Old Soldiers’ Home". Memory prodders come offered with the Tom.T.Hall classic "Harper Valley PTA" and John Denver’s "Take Me Home Country Roads" is a welcomed inclusion. With a confident vocal style, Hay remains consistent, and consistently good, when she tackles heart tugs like "Ten Thousand Teardrops Ago", the Bill Jackson-penned "The Tree" and the classic "Don’t Worry Bout Me", a Marty Robbins memory. And that’s one of her defining strengths. Hay can sing just about anything. Whether she’s cutting loose with the steel-driven ode to the Opry, ‘The Circle", or the Dolly Parton cut, "False Eyelashes", or the Leroy Van Dyke charter, "Walk On By", or the lamenting truth of "Your Good Girl’s Gonna Go Bad" Hay brings feel, voice and melody to all she tackles. Erin Hay: remember the name. Watch and wait. Meanwhile, become acquainted. The Collection is a solid introduction to a discovery waiting to happen.

  • c & w top cd !!!
    author: peter reinhard veit

    ich wuensche mir das diese cd auch in deutschland beachtung findet !!!

  • Erin Hay, something for everyone
    author: Gary Bradshaw

    Its hard to talk about Erins songs and this CD without acknowledging what a great Artist she really is. This collection of songs from previous recordings and the new songs on the Album The Collection will tell you who Erin is. Her traditional style shows through on everyone of these songs. If you like Erin Hay, you will not find a better Album anywhere. The Team of Erin Hay & Lonnie Ratliff have continued to prove the Indies can make excellent Albums. This Album contains 23 of Erins Songs with 2 of my all time favorites on it, The Tree & The Circle. Keep em coming Erin Gary

  • Erin Hay, country music's "new realities"
    author: Bill Littleton for THEBRIDGEWORKS

    Erin Hay The Collection Westwood International Records 1-800-BUY MY CD Erin Hay may be the epitome act of country music's "new realities," despite the fireworks and furbeloes seen on the CMA Awards Show this week. True, big numbers DO go with the "new country" situation, but it is equally true that a significant market continues to exist for the traditions. So Erin has a good life -- she has a music-related job that doesn't require her to play three hundred dates a year to pay for a bus, yet she tours internationally often enough to stay in touch with the friends and neighbors who buy her CDs. This CD, in fact, could be considered an "indie box set;" it represents every prior project and gives a glimpse into what's to come. If you miss the country music you grew up on and haven't listened to Erin, there's a serious problem that this album can solve. Steel guitar and fiddle by the acres, old favorite songs, new songs to chase your hat by, and an honest presentation.

  • excellent traditional country music
    author: ronnie lynch

    keeping it traditional country music the way it should be an excellent cd.

  • knowing Erins music a while..
    author: Mia Heylen

    but what a wonderfull cd they've made now some songs I didn't recognised, some very nice meetings and always, Erin, on top best song?Mirror, mirror ( on the wall)

  • Great Traditional Country
    author: Jonas Öhman - Spraydio Nashville

    This is run of the mill country - the Erin Hay mill that is, a mill that runs it own way. This means a very good collection of songs, country standards and originals, done the unmistakeable and stylish Erin Hay way. A must for any fan of tradiotional country music that will cause sales of the orginal albums en masse.

  • Amazing collection. Great music by a great performer.
    author: Bengt Pedersen

    This CD hits you right in the heart. Erin Hay is one of the 10 best female country singersin the world right now. She rocks.

  • Good Country Music Fare..and at 23 Tracks--a Genuine Value..!!
    author: Dixon DeVore/CPRI

    Erin Hay is just too pretty for words. And she can sing too. As this 23 Track Album so well illustrates. There are many nice tracks on this album but my 2 favorites would have to be: Track #8, SOMEBODY'S ANGEL and Track #9, THE TREE. The Production Values for this entire Album are right up there with the best of them. Ear-appealing arrangements and instrumentation. Backup vocals are First Rate. At 23 Tracks, this CD is a bonafide, Genuine--VALUE!!

  • This is a great traditional cd.
    author: Gary Jennings

    Iam partial to this artist.This is one great cd, and the artist is my top Indie girl singer.If anybody likes traditonal music and a great traditional voice, they got to have this one.

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