Midwesterners: The Hits is the first greatest hits album of songs composed by American rock

Rock music

Rock music is a genre of popular music that developed during and after the 1960s, particularly in the United Kingdom and the United States. It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, itself heavily influenced by rhythm and blues and country music...

 band Hawthorne Heights

Hawthorne Heights

Hawthorne Heights is an American rock band from Dayton, Ohio, formed in 2001. Their line-up currently consists of lead-singer and rhythm guitarist JT Woodruff, lead-guitarist and vocalist Micah Carli, bassist and backing vocalist Matt Ridenour, and drummer Eron Bucciarelli...

. It was released on November 9, 2010 through Victory Records

Victory Records

Victory Records is a Chicago-based record label founded by Tony Brummel. It is a privately held corporation. It also operates a music publishing company called "Another Victory, Inc." and is the distributor of several smaller independent record labels....

, without contribution from the band. The compilation is Victory's last release of material by Hawthorne Heights, and contains 16 of the band's favorite and most notable tracks that have already been released through their past albums with the record label.

Hawthorne Heights' most recent studio album, Skeletons

Skeletons (Hawthorne Heights album)

Skeletons is the fourth full-length studio album by American rock band Hawthorne Heights, released June 1, 2010. It is their first album to be released through Wind-up Records, and is also the first release since If Only You Were Lonely to employ screamed vocals, with guitarist Micah Carli adding...

, was released through their new label, Wind-up Records

Wind-Up Records

Wind-up Entertainment, Inc. is a record label based in New York City. It was formed in 1997 by Alan Meltzer, former owner of CD One Stop, following his 1996 purchase of Grass Records. Wind-up is currently the largest independently-owned record label in the world...

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There is a notable typographical error on the back cover of the jewel casing where they have misspelled the word "Angels" as "Angles". It is not known how many copies of this release have the typographical error or if it will even be reissued with the typographical error corrected in the future.

Track list

Personnel

• JT Woodruff – lead vocals
  Lead vocalist
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  , rhythm guitar
  Rhythm guitar
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  , piano
  Piano
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• Micah Carli – lead guitar
  Lead guitar
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• Matt Ridenour – bass guitar
  Bass guitar
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  , backing vocals
• Eron Bucciarelli – drums
  Drum kit
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  , percussion
• Casey Calvert – guitar
  Guitar
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  s, unclean vocals
  Death growl
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   (excluding tracks from Fragile Future)
• Grace Carli – backing vocals (for the track "The Transition")