Best of Gina Jeffreys... So Far explained

Best of Gina Jeffreys... So Far
Type:greatest hits
Artist:Gina Jeffreys
Cover:Best of Gina Jeffreys... So Far.jpg
Released:14 October 2002 (Australia)
Recorded:1993–2002
Genre:Country
Length:71.37
Label:ABC Music
Producer:Garth Porter, Rod McCormack
Prev Title:Angel
Prev Year:2001
Next Title:Walks of Life
Next Year:2006

Best of Gina Jeffreys... So Far is the first greatest hits album by Australian country singer Gina Jeffreys. It was released in October 2002 and concluded her contract with ABC Music. The album received little promotion, as Jeffreys was 6 months pregnant at the time of release.

The album contains the most sought after tracks from her four award-winning albums, The Flame, Up Close, Somebody’s Daughter and Angel. [1] The album also includes previously single-only, "Slipping Away" and three new tracks; including a cover of Radiohead’s "Creep" which she had performed on Andrew Denton's Musical Challenge and a cover of Linda Ronstadt's "Different Drum". Jeffreys explains; "We chose to record Different Drum because it has been a part of my life for so long. Both Rod and I grew up listening to Linda Rondstadt, whose version of the song is very well known, and we both love the song and what it says, but it’s also a song I used to sing in a covers band back in the days before I won Star Maker and went on to bigger things in country music. So it connects me back to those days — it’s a song from my past."[2]

"Through the Eyes of a Child" is a new track co-written by McCormack, "Rod wrote the song for our unborn child — he wanted a special, positive song that would connect us with the baby. He called me from Nashville and sang it to me over the phone — and of course, being pregnant, it made me cry," Gina said. [3]

Track listing

Standard Edition (0602517786271) [4]
  1. "Angel" (Gina Jeffreys / Rick Price) – 4:07
  2. "Dancin' With Elvis" (Ron Harbin / Stacy Worthington) – 3:36
  3. "Fool Like That" (Gina Jeffreys / Fred Koller / Rod McCormack / Garth Porter) – 3:37
  4. "Just Like the Moon" (Kim Richey / Tia Sillers) – 3:51
  5. "Different Drum" (Michael Nesmith) – 3:10
  6. "Through the Eyes of a Child" (Rod McCormack/ Jerry Salley) – 3:35
  7. "Girls' Night Out" (Gina Jeffreys/ Rod McCormack/ Garth Porter) – 3:13
  8. "That'll Be Me" (Gina Jeffreys/ Rod McCormack/ Jerry Salley) – 4:14
  9. "Somebody’s Daughter" (Gina Jeffreys/ Rod McCormack/ Garth Porter) – 4:24
  10. "I Haven't Got a Heart" (David Bates/ Gina Jeffreys/ Rod McCormack/ Garth Porter) – 4:31
  11. "Break My Heart" (Brent Maher/ Jamie O’Hara) – 3:22
  12. "Didn’t We Shine" (Jesse Winchester/ Don Schlitz) – 3:55
  13. "Rocking Chair" (David Bates/ Gina Jeffreys/ Rod McCormack/ Garth Porter) – 4:06
  14. "Standing Too Close to the Flame" (Jim Stewart/ Gloria Sklerov)– 3:49
  15. "Josephine" (David Bates/ Gina Jeffreys/ Rod McCormack/ Garth Porter) – 3:55
  16. "Two Stars Fell" (Jim Robertson) – 3:33
  17. "Men" (feat. Tania Kernaghan) (Robert Byrne/ Alan Schulman) – 3:38
  18. "Slippin’ Away" (Max Merritt)– (3:58)
  19. "Creep" (live) (Radiohead, Albert Hammond, Mike Hazlewood) – (3:13)

Notes and References

  1. Web site: So Far Greatest Hits. www.abc.net.au. 5 April 2015.
  2. Web site: GINA JEFFREYS – A Christmas Story. December 2002. 18 April 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20150418171134/http://www.capitalnews.com.au/editorial.asp?editorial_id=170&issue=35. 18 April 2015. dead.
  3. Web site: GINA JEFFREYS – A Christmas Story. December 2002. 18 April 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20150418171134/http://www.capitalnews.com.au/editorial.asp?editorial_id=170&issue=35. 18 April 2015. dead.
  4. Web site: So Far The Best of Gina Jeffreys. www.allmusic.com. 5 April 2015.
  5. Web site: The ARIA Report. https://webarchive.nla.gov.au/awa/20021106130000/http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/23790/20021107-0000/Issue660.pdf . dead . 2002-11-06 . webarchive.nla.gov.au. 21 October 2001 . 19 April 2015.