Various Artists - Mellow Rock Hits Of The '70s: Sundown (1997)

Back in 2023, I discovered Rhino's Mellow Rock Hits Of The '70s series through the Ventura Highway compilation and quickly found the other two discs in the series.

This volume is my least favorite of the three CDs in the series; this edition has quite a few deep album tracks, is heavy on the country & folk cuts, and skews to artists I normally don't listen to. I wouldn't have purchased it based solely on the track listing, but I had to have the complete series so here we are.

Peak on the US Billboard Top 200 chart: Did not chart

Tracks (liner notes promote that these are the full album versions), with chart peaks from the Billboard Hot 100 and Adult Contemporary charts plus links to previous appearances on this blog:

Song	Artist	Year	Pop	AC	Prev.
Sundown	Gordon Lightfoot	1974	1	1
Romeo's Tune	Steve Forbert	1979	11	13	1
Father & Son	Cat Stevens	1970
Vincent	Don McLean	1971	12	2
Part Of The Plan	Dan Fogelberg	1974	31	22
Why Me	Kris Kristofferson	1972	16	28	1
Brass Buttons	Gram Parsons	1974
Faithless Love	John David Souther	1976
Operator (That's Not the Way it Feels)	Jim Croce	1972	17	11	1
Massachusetts	Arlo Guthrie	1976
Never Let Her Go	David Gates	1974	29	3
Banana Republics	Steve Goodman	1976
Glad To See You've Got Religion	Loudon Wainwright III	1970
Angel From Montgomery	John Prine	1971
Second Avenue	Tim Moore	1974	58	41
Passing Thing	Andrew Gold	1977

Of the 13 tracks that were new to my CD shelves, my favorites are Part Of The Plan, Faithless Love, Never Let Her Go, and Second Avenue.

Personal Memory Associated with this CD: I was 8 years old when Sundown was on the radio and it creeped me the hell out.

Previously revisited for the blog:
Mellow Rock Hits Of The '70s: Ventura Highway (1997)
Mellow Rock Hits Of The '70s: Summer Breeze (1997)