This Is Easy: The Best of Marshall Crenshaw
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| This Is Easy: The Best of Marshall Crenshaw | ||||
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| Released | 2000 | |||
| Recorded | 1981–1996 | |||
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| Length | 74:57 | |||
| Label | Rhino | |||
| Producer | Alan Betrock, Marshall Crenshaw, T-Bone Burnett, Don Dixon, Mitch Easter, Richard Gottehrer, Larry Hirsch, David Kershenbaum, Steve Lillywhite, Paul McKenna, Ed Stasium | |||
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This Is Easy: The Best of Marshall Crenshaw is a greatest hits album by singer-songwriter Marshall Crenshaw. It was released in 2000 on Rhino Records.
This Is Easy includes twenty songs from Crenshaw's first seven studio albums and two tracks originally released on singles: "Something's Gonna Happen", a 1981 single on Alan Betrock's Shake Records before Crenshaw's major label debut, and "You're My Favorite Waste of Time", the B-side of Crenshaw's biggest hit, "Someday, Someway". The compilation's title comes from the track, "This Is Easy," which originally appeared on Crenshaw's 1987 album Mary Jean & 9 Others.
The tracklist for the album was compiled by Gary Stewart and David Gorman.[2] Crenshaw, despite having some input on the album's sleeve and formatting, did not participate in choosing the songs. He explained, "I had some input into the thing, suggestions about who they should get photos from, about who should write the liner notes (my good friend, the late great Cub Koda), but they wouldn't take any of my suggestions about song selection – they really wanted to run with that themselves, which I actually think is cool. For them the whole thing was a labor of love, which meant a lot to me."[3]
