Country Music CDs produced as high quality albums by Bear Family Records

1-CD DigiPac (4-sided) with 52-page booklet, 28 tracks, total playing time 77:36 mns. ‘In the 1940s Rhythm ‘n’ Blues recordings the double entendre was left to the listener to decipher, in these 1930s hillbilly songs the meaning was very clear!’ A...

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4-CD deluxe boxed set with 160-page hardcover book, 121 tracks. Battleground Korea - Songs and Sounds of America’s Forgotten War DeLuxe packaging, plus hardcover books Total no. of pages: 160, format 27 x 27 cms, in carton slipcase  Total number of...

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1-CD with 36-page booklet, 26 tracks. Playing time approx. 78 mns. Canada's Gordon Lightfoot parlayed his songwriting into a recording career, though this wasn't a case of a mediocre singer who happened to craft fine songs. His debut album, "Lightfoot!", was...

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1-CD with 20-page booklet, 20 tracks. Playing time approx. 76 mns. In 1973, John Stewart went to Nashville to record 'Cannons In The Rain' for RCA. He has fond memories of the session with guitarist Fred Carter, Jr. (father of current country hitmaker Deana Carter)...

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2-CD with 20-page booklet, 47 tracks. Playing time approx. 115 mns. Here's some real raw hillbilly music, and a few early Nashville Sound classics. In 1953 Jimmy came up from Louisiana and got a Dot Records contract on the strength of 'Cry, Cry Darling'. These two...

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VARIOUS ARTISTS At The Louisiana Hayride Tonight 20-CD boxed set (LP-size) with 224-page hardcover book (LP-size), 559 tracks. Total playing time 1,506:37 mns. Unreleased Recording Of Hank Williams Performing  ' I’m A Long Gone Daddy' On New Bear...

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Christmas On The Countryside 1-CD with 12-page booklet, 27 tracks. Total playing time: 64:45 mns. •  A unique compilation of Christmas songs from the wide range of Country Music, Honky Tonk and Hillbilly Boogie!  •  The Bear Family team sends its...

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1-CD Deluxe album with 72-page booklet, 31 tracks. Total playing time approx. 84 mns. It was the year that thousands of kids obeyed the invocation to go to San Francisco and wear some flowers in their hair. Civil unrest spread like a medieval plague: riots in the...

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1-CD Deluxe album with 72-page booklet, 31 tracks. Total playing time approx. 83 mns. As far back as the mid-1940s, 'Billboard' magazine had polled dee-jays, including country dee-jays, to tabulate the year's top records, labels, artists, and industry guys. On...

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4-CD box set (LP-format) with 68-page hardcover book, 111 tracks, total playing time approx. 6 hrs 38 mns. Merle Haggard 's overlooked and underappreciated MCA recordings capture the great country singer-songwriter reemerging from his mid-career crossroads. 111...

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1-CD-Album deluxe with 72-page booklet, 31 tracks. Playing time approx. 79 mns. As the simmering political divide between the South and Everywhere Else became more apparent, it was inevitably reflected in music. Anti-Civil Rights songs didn't make the country...

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6-CD box (LP-size) with 120-page hardcover book, 168 tracks, 1968-76. 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...

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1-CD Digipak (4-plated) with 23-page booklet, 31 tracks. Playing time approx. 85 mns. Before 22-year-old Hank Snow auditioned at the Montreal offices of RCA Victor's Canadian Division in October 1936, Repertoire and Recording Manager A.H. 'Hugh' Joseph asked if he...

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6-CD box (LP-size) with 60-page hardcover book, 169 tracks. Playing time approx. 398 mns. Waylon Jennings begins here. One of the epochal careers in country music took root in September 1958 when Buddy Holly produced his first single. This 6-CD boxed set...

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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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10-CD box (LP-size) with 52-page book, 281 tracks. Playing time approx. 742 mns. Wynn Stewart is generally hailed as one of the greatest pure singers in the history of country music, as well as one of the architects of the classic Fifties West Coast country...

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3-CD digipac (8-plated) with 48-page booklet, 82 tracks. Total playing time approx. 217 mns. Contains 82 classic country tracks, including her top ten hit duet with Merle Haggard , The Bull And The Beaver ! Includes many previously unreleased recordings and a...

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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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5-CD boxed set (LP-size) with 36-page book, 138 tracks. Playing time approx. 330 mns. It has been the most remarkable career in modern country music. 'Nobody But Nobody More Original Than Johnny Cash ' was the slogan they coined in the '60s, and it was nothing less...

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Songs about chicken, hens and roosters, Easter eggs and rabbits and Easter parades 1-CD with 20-page booklet - 28 tracks - Total playing time: 68:12 Easter with songs of the genres: Rock 'n' Roll, Rhythm 'n' Blues, Pop, Country & Western, from 1946-1962!...

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11-CD/1 DVD box (LP-size) with 186-page hardcover book, 296 tracks. Playing time approx. 812 mns. Beyond influential. Beyond seminal. That's Bob Wills' Columbia recordings, complete for the first time. In the quarter-century since his death, Bob Wills has become...

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4-CD boxed set (LP-size) with 23-page book, 114 tracks. Playing time approx. 315 mns. The Sons of the Pioneers were the first - and greatest - western harmony group. Their wonderful close harmony has never been equaled. Here, they're on RCA and Coral between 1945...

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4-CD box set (LP-Size) with 76-page hardcover book, 103 tracks. Playing time approx. 252 mns. Married to Buck Owens and Merle Haggard , Bonnie Owens was the Queen of Bakersfield… and the original Honky Tonk Angel. All of Bonnie’s recordings between 1953 and...

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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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Faron Young 's Capitol recordings (complete here for the first time) capture ten years of country music history. Beginning as a Hank Williams disciple, Faron found his own voice and scored hits like I've Got Five Dollars And It's Saturday Night, If You Ain't...

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1-CD with 12-page booklet, 15 tracks. Playing time approx. 31 mns. In 1957 Leroy Van Dyke scored one of the great crossover novelty hits of the rock 'n' roll era. His song, The Auctioneer , was a Top 20 pop and country hit, and the original version is here together...

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1-CD-Album Digipak with 32-page booklet, 30 tracks. Playing time approx. 72 mns. Contains 29 rockabilly, teen pop and rockin' country tracks all from the original masters! Includes the only known recording by Marty Robbins of his self-penned rockabilly classic,...

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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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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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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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5-CD boxed set - LP-size with 48-page hardcover book; 142 tracks, playing time CDs: 429:26 George Jones ' classic Musicor recordings have been out of circulation for years while a lawsuit was resolved. George Jones' Musicor recordings were never issued...

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6-CD box (LP-size) with 60-page hardcover book, 147 tracks. Playing time approx. 417 mns. The second volume of Bear Family's chronicle of Waylon Jennings ' pre-Outlaw recordings begins in June 1968, taking the story to the end of 1972. Here Waylon Jennings...

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1-CD with 20-page booklet, 34 tracks, Playing time 73:47 minutes. Curtis Gordon will be 70 this year. and he's on his way to Europe to play showdates! Back in 1985 and 1986 we issued two LPs of Curtis's RCA Victor and Mercury recordings. The RCA sides (issued on...

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4-CD boxed set (LP-size) with 40-page book, 126 tracks. Playing time approx. 314 mns. Bobby Bare was the original outlaw, the original Nashville Rebel, and these are his early and great recordings. After starting with Capitol in 1956, Bobby went on to cut All...

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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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4-CD boxed set (LP-size) with 15-page book, 112 tracks. Playing time approx. 297 mns. ...picks up from 'I'm Moving On', and continues to 1958. During these years, Hank Snow became one of the standard-bearers of traditional country against the onslaught of rock 'n'...

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1-CD with 40-page booklet, 24 tracks, Playing time 76:59 mns. Tompall Glaser is the forgotten outlaw. Everyone remembers Willie and Waylon , but Tompall Glaser made records every bit as good as theirs, and helped developed the classic 'Outlaw' sound in his...

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1-CD with 28-page booklet, 24 tracks. Playing time approx. 79 mns. A dream package for Travis fans. Here's the original 1947 "Folksongs Of The Hills" album (which included the first versions of songs like Nine Pound Hammer, I Am A Pilgrim, Muskrat, This World Is...

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1-CD Digipak (4-plated) with 44-page booklet, 16 tracks. Total playing time approx. 53 minutes. - Richard Dobson is the Hemingway of Country Music. - Nanci Griffith - If Richard Dobson never wrote another song, Piece Of Wood & Steel would guarantee his...

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1-CD-Album Digipak (4-plated) with 25-page booklet, 25 tracks, playing time approx. 62 mns. She was a Jewish girl from New York who attended the same school as Barbara Streisand and Neil Diamond, but wanted to be a country singer. Her first record was a rare Hank...

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1-CD with 20-page booklet, 34 tracks. Playing time approx. 77 mns. Narvel Felts started his professional career in 1956, making his first studio recordings in 1957 at 706 Union Avenue in Memphis, Tennessee for Sun with Jack Clement producing. From these...

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1-CD with 8-page booklet, 25 tracks. Playing time approx. 61 mns. No country singer was more effortlessly versatile than Marty Robbins . He loved Mexican and Caribbean music, and this anthology collects songs like The Girl From Spanish Town, Kingston Girl,...

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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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2-CD DigiPac with 124-page booklet. 48 tracks. Total playing time 2 hrs 7 mns. The Grammy Award nominations were announced this morning, and "The Trouble With The Truth" (BCD 17426 by Arthur Q. Smith) received a nomination in the 'Best Album Notes' category...

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1-CD-Album avec livret de 36 pages, 35 pistes, temps de lecture 78 mns.  Le chanteur de country le plus influent de tous les temps !   Lefty Frizzell a influencé Merle Haggard, George Jones et d'innombrables autres. Un point de vue complètement...

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1-CD with 24-page booklet, 34 tracks, playing time 81:40 minutes. Elvis ' co-star on the Louisiana Hayride A rockabilly pioneer Rockabilly fans have been clamoring for his Mercury recordings on CD! The CD contains his complete recordings for Mercury, 'D', Jin...

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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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1-CD with 32-page booklet, 21 tracks. Playing time approx. 64 mns. Two long playing records, originally released in 1979, and 1980 on Columbia, 'Invictus (Means) Unconquered' and 'Tennessee Whiskey'on one CD. Personnel 'Invictus (Means) Unconquered': David Allan...

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1-CD-album digipac with 24-page booklet, 30 tracks; playing time 77:16 minutes. - Special 'Red Nose' price - while stock last!***** It is one of the most familiar songs in all American music, and among the Top 20 all-time earners in the American record business. It...

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1-CD-Album digipac (4-plated) with 32-page booklet, 21 tracks. Playing time approx. 56 mns. A completely expanded version of his Christmas LP, now including all of his commercial and non-commercial seasonal recordings! Hank Snow pioneered the country concept LP...

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1-CD-Album with 36-page booklet, 8 tracks. Playing time approx. 38 mns. One of Canada's best-known poets, Robert William Service was a man who celebrated the untamed vastness of the Canadian north, yet Service was from England and spent just a small part of his...

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9-CD / 1-DVD Boxed Set (LP-Size) with 184-page Hardcover Book. Total playing time 10 hrs 56 mns. •    ' 'He's the biggest singer this music ever knew. You booked him and you didn't worry about crowds. For drawing power in the South, it was Roy...

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1-CD digipack with 52-page booklet, 32 tracks. The first comprehensive anthology of one of the original legendary rockabilly stars! Includes the previously unissued complete version of Let's Get Wild, plus four other unreleased recordings Includes the original hit...

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10-CD box (LP-size) with 82-page hardcover book, 266 tracks. Playing time approx. 738 mns. '...during the rockabilly and early country-pop years Ray Price almost single handedly kept the hard country torch aflame and, in so doing, virtually created an industry of...

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1-CD Digipak (4-plated) with 36-page booklet, 24 tracks. Playing time 57:48 mns. A forgotten star finally gets his due! Bobby Lord didn't score many hits, but he was a TV star on the Ozark Jubilee and on Nashville's Opry station, WSM. His No More! No More! No...

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1-CD Digipac with 44-page booklet, 38 tracks. Playing time approx. 84 minutes. In this CD you'll find a massive 38 tracks recorded by this important artist during the classic era when rock 'n' roll met the Nashville Sound! Here are all 12 tracks from Warner Mack...

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Greenfields sind eines der ursprünglichsten und dauerhaft erstklassigen Talente der deutschen Country Music Szene geworden. Anstatt Lieder aufzugreifen, die man vorher schon oft genug gehört hat, greifen sie nur neues Material auf, unterstützt von Talenten wie Robert...

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1-CD with 48-page booklet, 33 tracks, playing time 76:38 mns. • Complete 1950s recordings by this overlooked Texas artist • All of his rare Dixie EPs • His tribute record to Buddy Holly , Ritchie Valens , and the Big Bopper , Gold Records In The Snow...

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1-CD with 28-page booklet, 27 tracks. Playing time approx. 64 mns. Johnny Cash ... Johnny C.... Johnny Sea . That was the thinking when a young deep-voiced singer named Johnny Seay was renamed and encouraged to sing like a slightly older deep-voiced singer named...

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1-CD with 16-page booklet, 31 tracks. Playing time approx. 76 mns. There was much more to Ned Miller than From A Jack To A King . Never mind that Ned's original version of his classic is still the best, this 31-track collection includes his original versions of...

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4-CD boxed set (LP-size) with 156-page hardcover book, 102 tracks. Total playing time approx. 300 minutes. •    With this set, Bear Family Records completes the map of commercial recording in East Tennessee in the late 1920s and early 1930s....

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1-CD Digipak (4-plated) with 72-page booklet, 32 tracks. Total playing time approx. 86 minutes. From his years in Los Angeles in the 1950s recording as Terry Preston, to his time as an early pioneer of the Bakersfield Sound, to his extensive tours with Elvis...

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2-CD Digipak (6 pages) with extensive booklet, 43 single tracks. Total playing time 160:29 minutes. We remain very pleased with the sales and reactions to the first four releases in this series. The story of Country Rock ends with parts 6 and 7! The concept...

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2-CD Digipak (6-plated) with comprehensive booklet, 46 tracks. Total playing time approx. 00 minutes. Sales have been strong and critical response has been overwhelming to Volumes 1 through 5. Now the story concludes! The mix is as before: big hits and neglected...

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2-CD Digipak (6-plated) with extensive booklet, 37 tracks. Total playing time approx. 00 minutes. Sales have been strong and critical response has been overwhelming to Volumes 1 through 4. Now the story continues with Volume 5. Just two more to go! The mix is as...

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2016 Grammy nomination for Bear Family's, Tennessee Ernie Ford - Portrait Of An American Singer 1949-1960 (5-CD) Box set 5-CD boxed set (LP-size) with 120-page hardcover book, 154 tracks. Total playing time approx.. 397 minutes. • All the secular-themed...

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2-CD Digipac (6-plated) with comprehensive booklet, 39 tracks. Total playing tiume approx.  136:30 Minutes. Bear Family’s exploration of Country Rock 1966 – 1975 continues with music from 1970 and 1971! Sales have been strong and critical response has been...

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1-CD DigiPac (4-plated) with 28-page booklet, 21 tracks. Total playing time approx. 56 minutes. •    Texas honky-tonk singer Sonny Burns' Second Coming from the 1960s. •    Exploring Sonny's career with great recordings from 1959 to the...

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