I haven't looked at the track listing for the Waterson-Carthy and related "Definitive Collection" CDs, but it sounds as if they are good.

But if I see a CD with such a title as "Definitive Collection", I'm usually suspicious that it will be anything but that, especially if it's a budget priced CD.

It's like those cheapo pop/rock CDs that claim to be "The Best of..." or "X's Greatest Hits". You often find with cheap (budget priced) CDs that they might have a few tracks from what is generally considered the 'best' of that artist's work, and the rest a lot of inconsequential filler material. I'm not saying that in this case, but this is a general comment on budget priced CDs.

Worse than that, especially in the pop and rock genres (or soul, easy listening and other popular non-folk music for that matter), you get a lot of cheap CDs with re-recordings, or inferior live recordings. In folk this shouldn't be such a problem, because folk musicians are generally able to reproduce fairly faithfully live what appears on their studio recordings. Not so for most pop and rock artists, though.

But I have managed to get a few bargains myself in the past, in folk music CDs as well as pop/rock or other genres. You just have to be careful to read the small print (if the CD has any on the back cover), before you buy.

Are these "Definitive Collection" CDs available for other artists than those mentioned above?