Country Music CD-Box-Sets in high quality deluxe editions by Bear Family

6-CD box (LP-size) with 66-page book, 152 tracks. Playing time approx. 402 mns. One of the strangest stories in country music is how a polka bandleader called Frank Kuczynski from Wisconsin became Pee Wee King and led a big band on the Opry, then wrote several of...

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5-CD box (LP-size) with 60-page book, 123 tracks. Playing time approx. 497 mns. Fiddler Cliff Bruner 's Texas Wanderers were one of the most important and exciting bands in Texas Swing history, a group that stirred countless others and bridged the gap between...

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5-CD box (LP-size) with 44-page book, 146 tracks. Playing time approx. 386 mns. In 1949, Jimmy Martin left east Tennessee bound for Nashville. He joined Bill Monroe before striking out on his own to become one of the best loved figures in what he called Good Ol'...

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6-CD box (LP-size) with 68-page book, 180 tracks. Playing time approx. 438 mns. We at Bear Family can honestly say that we've done more than anyone to keep the sound of the great original country duets alive. The Blue Sky Boys, the Monroe Brothers, Darby &...

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6-CD box (LP-size) with 88-page hardcover book, 176 tracks. Playing time approx. 465 mns. Between 1936 and 1949 Bill Monroe made a series of recordings that laid the foundation for what is today called bluegrass music. This collection brings together - for the...

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4-CD boxed set (LP-size) with 15-page book, 112 tracks. Playing time approx. 294 mns. The 5-star reviews for this set showed that Flatt & Scruggs are far from forgotten since they split up in 1969. Here we have their complete Mercury recordings as well as the...

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4-CD boxed set (LP-size) with 24-page book, 122 tracks. Playing time approx. 295 mns. Don Gibson is an original, now often overlooked. There's so much more to his music than the hits everyone knows. He was one of the most sophisticated writers and singers in...

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4-CD box (LP-size) with 36-page book, 114 tracks. Playing time approx. 629 mns. Webb Pierce is one of the neglected giants of post-War country music. No-one sold more records in the '50s, yet those classic cuts were never available on CD until this set. Here they...

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The bluegrass world has never recovered from the Osborne Brothers band that walked on-stage in 1956'; wrote one commentator. Sonny and Bobby Osborne changed the rules. They came out of a rich tradition and had played with many bluegrass giants, but when they struck...

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5-CD boxed set (LP-size) with 20-page book, 129 tracks. Playing time approx. 335 mns. These were Earl Scuggs and Lester Flatt 's prime years. They rode the crest of the folk boom, supplied the theme for 'The Beverly Hillbillies', and played Carnegie Hall. Through...

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4-CD boxed set (LP-size) with 23-page book, 123 tracks. Playing time approx. 311 mns. We pick up where '1949-1960' leaves off, and although the hits were growing smaller, Don Gibson was cutting some of the most strikingly original music to come out of Nashville in...

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6-CD box (LP-size) with 28-page book, 169 tracks. Playing time approx. 420 mns. Here's the conclusion of our complete Flatt & Scruggs retrospective. It takes us through the period of their greatest success in the 1960s, leading to the break-up. They were...

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4-CD box (LP-size) with 24-page book, 109 tracks. Playing time approx. 285 mns. After Rocky Top , the Osbornes became the most successful act in bluegrass, and tried hard to bridge the gap to mainstream country music. The 115 songs in this set wraps up the story of...

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2-CD/1-DVD boxed set (LP-size) with 108-page book, CD 33 tracks, playing time approx. 98 mns. The Bear Family Records turns 30 in 2005 Richard Weize: From Rock 'n' Roll and Country Fan to Collector and (Music) Historian By Michael Kleff Bear Family...

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4-CD boxed set (LP-size) with 164-page hardcover book, 121 tracks. Playing time approx. 242 mns. ' Dorsey Dixon is the poet laureate of [America's] textile industry.' - Archie Green. The definitive collection of one of the quintessential Depression-era hillbilly...

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4-CD box, LP size, 52 pages book, 131 tracks, playing time 341:00. George Jones ' classic Musicor recordings have been out of circulation for years while a lawsuit was resolved. George Jones' Musicor recordings were never issued systematically or in full until now!...

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4-CD boxed set (LP-size) with 112-page hardcover book. 134 tracks. Playing time approx. 5 hrs 29 mns. The last major bluegrass star from the music's early days to be reissued! The first time this music has been reissued since the LP era! Includes many bluegrass...

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4-CD box (LP-size) with 24-page book, 100 tracks. Playing time approx. 262 mns. This set picks up the story of Wilf Carter's post-War career, beginning with his comeback in 1944 after a debilitating road accident. This set embraces all of his RCA recordings up to...

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7-CD box (LP-size) with 48-page book, 190 tracks. Playing time approx. 511 mns. Although the name of Dick Curless may not be on everybody's lips, he possessed one of the finest voices in Country Music, with a huge vocal range. A Tombstone Every Mile was his...

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5-CD Boxed Set (LP-size) with 84-page hardcover book, 159 tracks. Total playing time: 383 mns. One of the all-time Country Music Hall of Fame greats finally gets the Bear Family treatment! 'The birth of the legendary Bakersfield Sound!  'Includes Buck...

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2-CD box (LP-size) with 76-page hardcover book, 41 tracks. Playing time 107:41 mns. The 'O Brother/Down From The Mountain' tour 40 years earlier! A priceless snapshot of timeless Appalachian music captured just before it disappeared. A companion piece to the much...

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3-CD boxed set (LP-size) with 24-page book, 82 tracks. Playing time approx. 205 mns. Justly renowned as the writer of The Battle Of New Orleans, Jimmie Driftwood was a true maverick. He was an Arkansas schoolteacher who wrote songs to illustrate his classes. He...

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12-CD box (LP-size) with 84-page hardcover book, 329 tracks. Playing time approx. 856 mns. Copies of the 1996 Hank Thompson box have been changing hands for up to Dollar 500 on auction sites! That's good news if you want it and you have five hundred spare...

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6-CD box (LP-size) with 40-page book, 179 tracks. Playing time approx. 473 mns. This, the fifth and last volume of Bear Family's complete Ernest Tubb retrospective from 1936 to 1975, covers the period from April 1966 to June 1975. Here are the last hits on Decca,...

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7-CD box (LP-Size) with 76-page book 173 tracks. Playing time 456:49 mns. Anita Carter began singing on the radio with her mother, Maybelle , and the famous Carter Family when she was barely four years old. By the time she was 17, she was a press agent's dream,...

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8-CD box (LP-size) with 100-page hardcover book, 230 tracks. Playing time approx. 611 mns. Bill Clifton has taken bluegrass music around the world, uniting folk and country music, and preserving songs and styles that might otherwise have been forgotten. Although...

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8-CD box (LP-size) with 168-page hardcover book, 285 tracks. Total playing time approx. 686 mns. ​The dawn of rock 'n' roll, like you've never heard it before - live from Texas 1950-1958! Hear stars like Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins, Gene Vincent, Wanda Jackson...

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4-CD boxed set (LP-size) with 48-page book, 122 tracks. Playing time approx. 315 mns.

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6-CD boxed set (LP-size) with 174-page hardcover book, 200 tracks. Total playing time approx. 458 minutes. His fans and country music lovers have been asking for this definite set with George Jones’ early Starday and Mercury recordings for years....

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4-CD boxed set (LP-size) with 48-page book, 109 tracks. Playing time approx. 282 mns. Bluegrass is Bill Monroe 's baby, and many of his finest recordings are in this stellar collection. In 1950 he signed with Decca, and began by cutting classics like New Mule...

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4-CD boxed set (LP-size) with 28-page book, 120 tracks. Playing time approx. 305 mns. ...continues the story of BCD 15423. This was the period when Bluegrass had moved to the festival circuit, but it didn't matter to Bill Monroe . He continued to make his music the...

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4-CD boxed set (LP-size) with 31-page book, 99 tracks. Playing time approx. 277 mns. Later the elder statesman of bluegrass, Bill Monroe 's stature was universally recognized by the '70s. He was still making fine music, and attracting the cream of the young...

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5-CD box (LP-size) with 32-page book, 136 tracks. Playing time approx. 341 mns. During the '60s, younger musicians began experimenting with bluegrass. Among the first to stretch the boundaries were Jim & Jesse . From 1960 to 1969 they recorded for Epic...

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4-CD box (LP-size) with 28-page book, 93 tracks. Playing time approx. 262 mns. It's the television show that won't go away. The American western television series ran from 1959 to 1973 with a total of 430 episodes. It ranks as the second longest running western...

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4-CD box (LP-size) with 56-page book, 127 tracks. Playing time approx. 315 mns. "There's only three real female singers: Barbra Streisand , Linda Ronstadt , and Connie Smith . The rest of us are only pretending." ( Dolly Parton ) Probably no one in the long...

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8-CD box (LP-size) with 40-page book, 201 tracks. Playing time approx. 504 mns. When George Morgan is mentioned these days, it's usually in the context of his daughter, Lorrie. People forget that George was a country superstar from the late Forties and during the...

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4-CD boxed set (LP-size) with 35-page book, 120 tracks. Playing time approx. 291 mns. Marvin Rainwater was quarter Cherokee - and a full-blooded singer. Marvin was also one of those guys who made music just a little bit left of center. He was a different kind of...

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8-CD boxed set (LP-size) with 52-page book, 220 tracks. Playing time approx. 592 mns. This is it! The complete edition of the Louvin Brothers . Every recording - Apollo, Decca, MGM and Capitol - complete. They were the act that set the standard, the act that...

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4-CD boxed set (LP-size) with 32-page book, 105 tracks. Playing time approx. 291 mns. Johnny Cash was one of the first to explore the idea of the concept album in country music. The songs in this exclusive collection were recorded between 1960 and 1977 and were...

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3-CD box (LP-size) with 48-page book, 71 tracks. Playing time approx. 228 mns. A wonderful set of pre-War country music. Darby & Tarlton's soulful, bluesy vocals were framed by Jimmie Tarlton's slide guitar. This set includes all their recordings from 1927 to...

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6-CD box (LP-size) with 120-page hardcover book, 168 tracks. Playing time approx. 440 mns. Merle Haggard was one of the first country artists to see the LP as more than one hit and some filler songs. Now Bear Family gathers together all of his 'concept' LPs...

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5-CD boxed set (LP-size) with 45-page book, 151 tracks. Playing time approx. 362 mns. There's astonishing versatility here: hillbilly string band music, folk, rockabilly, Hawaiian, and western music. Marty Robbins stamped his own identity on it all. Here are the...

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4-CD boxed set (LP-size) with 32-page book, 102 tracks. Playing time approx. 277 mns. The 1960s were Marty Robbins ' golden era. He minted one hit after another, all different, all innovative. The classics on this set include Don't Worry, It's Your World, Devil...

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6-CD boxed set (LP-size) with 32-page book, 157 tracks. Playing time: approx. 403 mns. Bear Family is alone in documenting Billy Walker 's career, starting with his first recordings for Capitol, and all the Columbia recordings, including the original version of...

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4-CD boxed set (LP-size) with 83-page book, CD 121 tracks, playing time approx. 309 mns. DVD 11 tracks, playing time approx. 23 mns. Wesley Tuttle is one of the unjustly forgotten giants of West Coast country music. In 1944, he was the second country artist...

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6-CD box (LP-size) with 92-page hardcover book, 162 tracks. Playing time approx. 465 mns. Jimmie Skinner drew the roadmap that today's 'alt-country' singer-songwriters follow. Inspired by the bluesmen of his youth, Jimmie Skinner wrote songs of melancholy,...

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6-CD box-set (LP-size) with 80-page hardcover book, 160 tracks. Total playing time approx. 408 mns. The greatest male-female duet in country music! "They made all other duet teams sound like footnotes" (critic John Morthland). Includes 21 timeless hits:...

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5-CD box (LP-size) with 44-page book, 143 tracks. Playing time approx. 360 mns. One of the pioneers of West Coast country music and an archetypal honky tonk singer, Skeets McDonald is chiefly remembered for his 1953 hit Don't Let The Stars Get In Your Eyes ....

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13-CD/1-DVD box (LP-size) with 140-page hardcover book. CD 357 tracks, playing time approx. 949 mns. DVD 7 tracks, playing time approx. 19 mns. · Bear Family's stunning, comprehensive 13 CD/1 DVD follow up to its first Bob Wills box set, 'San Antonio Rose.' ·...

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4-CD boxed set (LP-size) with 52-page book, CD 63 tracks, playing time approx. 194 mns. DVD 30 tracks, playing time approx. 92 mns. In 1975 and 1989, Bill Monroe and his Blue Grass Boys came to Germany. For European fans, these were two rare chances to see the...

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6-CD box (LP-size) with 52-page book, 148 tracks. Playing time approx. 388 mns. Lester Flatt 's RCA recordings are among the finest and most underrated recordings in Bluegrass music. For many years, Lester had been unhappy with Flatt & Scruggs ' direction, so...

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5-CD box (LP-Size) with 96-page book 110 tracks. Playing time approx. 386 mns.

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4-CD box (LP-size) with 44-page book, 116 tracks. Playing time approx. 292 mns. Here's the guitar that changed the world, and the recordings that changed it! Just one of the ultra-rare 10-inch albums included here fetches more than the cost of the set! As a...

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4-CD/1 DVD box (LP-size) with 48-page hardcover book, 106 tracks. Playing time approx. 290 mns. With its 1950 recording of Goodnight Irene , the Weavers brought folk music to the 'American Hit Parade.' The public immediately responded to the song's catchy melody...

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5-CD boxed set (LP-size) with 80-page book, 145 tracks. Playing time approx. 387 mns. What a guy! What a picker! What a set! A seminal, and hugely-praised set from one of the most influential musicians in country music. It not only includes all of his Capitol...

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4-CD box set (LP-format) with 48-page book, 97 tracks. Playing time approx. 246 mns. Dick Curless is best known for his mega-hit A Tombstone Every Mile , along with a string of trucker anthems and road songs, recorded since 1950 - 1973. This boxed set continues...

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4-CD box (LP-size) with 48-page book, 111 tracks. Playing time approx. 268 mns. The four CDs that make up this collection contain what many feel is the best work Tex Ritter ever did. In nine recording sessions for Capitol Transcriptions over a period of two and a...

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3-CD box (LP-size) with 20-page book, 63 tracks. Playing time approx. 149 mns. These days he's chiefly remembered as the guy who died in the plane crash with Patsy Cline and Cowboy Copas, but throughout the '50s Hawkshaw made excellent country music and was just...

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5-CD boxed set (LP-size) with 108-page hardcover book, 165 tracks. Playing time: 415:49 minutes. Hot licks, big hits, and truckers' favourites! The very best recordings from a giant of the Bakersfield scene ... a scene that gave us Merle Haggard and Buck Owens,...

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3-CD boxed set (LP-size) with 39-page book, 74 tracks. Playing time approx. 198 mns. Johnny Western wrote 'The Ballad Of Paladin', theme song for the TV series 'Have Gun Will Travel' starring Richard Boone, which ran from 1957 - 1963. Western was signed to...

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The second installment of Bear Family's epochal Tex Ritter anthology picks up the story in December 1947, and closes in 1954. Tex Ritter was now one of the biggest stars of stage, screen, and records...truly one of the most familiar faces in American...

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6-CD box (LP-size) with 80-page hardcover book, 175 tracks. Playing time approx. 458 mns. "I am maybe the world’s biggest Floyd Tillman fan." Willie Nelson . Floyd Tillman was one of country music’s great stylists and alltime greatest songwriters. His music...

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6-CD Box (LP-Format) mit 56-seitigem Buch, 173 Einzeltitel, Spieldauer 430:03 Minuten. One of the most unique country music stylists of all time, Slim Whitman remains one of the music’s true legends and one of its most enduring stars, even more popular outside...

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4-CD boxed set (LP-size) with 60-page book, 110 tracks. Playing time approx. 245 mns. The other Monroe brother! Bill Monroe split from his older brother, Charlie Monroe , and went on to invent bluegrass music. This is the story of what happened to Charlie Monroe...

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12-CD box (LP-size) with 220-page hardcover book, 307 tracks. Playing time approx. 933 mns. The single most important event in the history of country music.' That was how Johnny Cash characterized the first Carter Family session in Bristol, Tennessee in 1927. That...

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3-CD box (LP-size) with 68-page hardcover book, 77 tracks. Playing time approx. 188 mns. 'It's been rough and rocky travelin''…and the journey starts here. No one in American music history has been more prolific than Willie Nelson , but these incredibly rare...

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10-CD-album Box Set + 1-DVD, box in LP-size with 464-page book (30x30); 316 tracks (Audio), 27 tracks (DVD); playing time CDs approx. 12 hours. The greatest-ever tribute to the man they called 'Duke' on the thirtieth anniversary of his death! John Wayne is gone...

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