The Essential Collection is a double CD release with one disc of 15 songs considered the best of Omar and the Howlers and a second disc of 15 of Omar’s personal favorites. This album was previously released worldwide by Ruf Records but is now available directly from Omar Dykes’ Big Guitar Records with a new UPC #. As Omar himself writes, “The Omar & the Howlers Essential Collection includes songs that are considered my biggest hits combined with songs that I believe to be some of my best work. The collection compiles my entire life’s career in the music industry: writing, recording, touring, and making the Blues rock for over five decades.”