Fourteen years separate 2009's
The Very Best of Don Henley and
Henley's first compilation,
Actual Miles: Henley's Greatest Hits. During that near decade-and-a-half,
Henley only released one new album, 2000's
Inside Job, a record that generated a couple of minor hit singles highlighted by "Taking You Home," which reached number 58 on Billboard's Hot 100 and number 12 on their Adult Top 40 chart. This means that this 2009 compilation doesn't have anything major that's not on the 1995 disc -- even the cover of
Leonard Cohen's "Everybody Knows," which debuted on
Actual Miles, has been carried over to
The Very Best -- so there's not much reason to swap hits discs, but anybody in the market for a
Don Henley compilation will find this satisfying, as it has all the big hits from
Building the Perfect Beast and
The End of the Innocence. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine