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

1-CD-Album Digipac (4-palted) with 52-page booklet, 34 tracks. Playing time approx. 74 minutes. Long overdue retrospective of a forgotten West Coast label! Includes alternative country stars like Whitey Pullen , Jenks Tex Carman , the Georgia Crackers , Lonnie...

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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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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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1-CD deluxe album with 72-page booklet, 27 tracks. Playing time approx. 77 mns. It was a cataclysmic year. As 1945 dawned, the Second World War was still ongoing in Europe and Asia; yet by year's end, it was over. Many musicians were in uniform, and even those that...

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1-CD deluxe album with 72-page booklet, 28 tracks. Playing time approx. 77 mns. The year that the floodgates opened, rock 'n' roll was on everyone's mind and there were more million sellers than ever before. As Elvis Presley had been signed to RCA's country division...

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1-CD deluxe album with 72-page booklet, 27 tracks. Playing time approx. 74 mns. After many, many requests, we're finally doing a definitive year-by-year country series! And it won't stop when the music is in copyright, either! The most luxuriously packaged single...

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1-CD deluxe album with 72-page booklet, 28 tracks. Playing time approx. 78 mns. After many, many requests, we're finally doing a definitive year-by-year country series! And it won't stop when the music is in copyright, either! The most luxuriously packaged single...

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1-CD deluxe album with 72-page booklet, 28 tracks. Playing time approx. 77 mns. After many, many requests, we're finally doing a definitive year-by-year country series! And it won't stop when the music is in copyright, either! The most luxuriously packaged single...

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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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1-CD deluxe album with 72-page booklet, 28 tracks. Playing time approx. 77 mns. After many, many requests, we're finally doing a definitive year-by-year country series! And it won't stop when the music is in copyright, either! The most luxuriously packaged single...

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1-CD-Album deluxe with 72-page booklet, 29 tracks; playing time: 79:57 minutes. Nineteen-fifty-one was the year that pop discovered country music. Many of the top pop songs of the year (Cold, Cold Heart, Beautiful Brown Eyes, The Shot Gun Boogie, Slow Poke, Mockin'...

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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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1-CD-Album deluxe with 72-page booklet, 26 tracks; playing time: 68:42 minutes. The burgeoning interest in country music manifested itself in many ways. Pop A&R men scoured the hillbilly releases for songs they could cover. Twelve hundred radio stations, even in the...

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1-CD-Album deluxe with 72-page booklet, 28 tracks; playing time: 75:06 minutes. One event towered over 1953, and it happened between midnight and dawn on January 1. Somewhere in West Virginia Hank Williams died in the back seat of his Cadillac. As often happens,...

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1-CD-Album deluxe with 72-page booklet, 28 tracks; playing time: 74:03 minutes. The first six volumes covering 1945-1950 were released in 2008. Right away, the word was out. This series is definitive, fabulously packaged, and faultlessly remastered! Jack Clement,...

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1-CD-Album deluxe with 72-page booklet, 31 tracks; playing time: 80:29 minutes. It was the year everything began to change. When the music merchants gathered for their annual convention in July 1955, one of the keynote speakers remarked that "Vintage years lie...

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1-CD-Album deluxe album with 72-page booklet, 30 tracks. Playing time: 78:14 minutes. It was the year that the floodgates opened. Inside and outside the music business, rock 'n' roll was on everyone's mind. The trade papers didn't know what to make of this "mongrel...

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1-CD-Album deluxe with 72-page booklet, 29 tracks. Playing time: 76:22 minutes. This was the year that the Nashville Sound was born, Music City's fightback to rock 'n' roll with strings and vocal choruses, providing a pop market appeal, although Eddy Arnold had...

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1-CD-Album deluxe with 72-page booklet, 30 tracks. Playing time: 74:10 minutes. Wesley Rose's 1956 prophecy about rock 'n' roll killing country was ringing true and the music was at its lowest ebb.  Nevertheless it couldn't be ignored. Songwriter Don Gibson...

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1-CD-Album deluxe with 72-page booklet, 32 tracks. Playing time: 84:48 minutes. The big hit of the year was the Kingston Trio's Tom Dooley and the words "folk music" swept the industry. It reached country music and story songs, with a folksy feel, became the order...

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1-CD-Album deluxe with 72-page booklet, 32 tracks. Playing time: 82:43 minutes. By 1960 the folk boom of the previous year had died. Nashville, for the greater part, continued to produce records with "crossover" appeal that would provide sales greater than normally...

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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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1-CD-Album deluxe with 72-page booklet, 31 tracks. Playing time approx. 80 mns. After the volumes covering 1945-1960 were released, the word was out. This series is definitive, fabulously packaged, and faultlessly remastered! In short, everything you'd expect from...

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1-CD-Album deluxe with 72-page booklet, 31 tracks. Playing time approx. 82 mns. Nineteen-sixty-two was the year of Don Law. The forgotten pioneer of the Nashville Sound, Law was—statistically at least—more successful than Chet Atkins or Owen Bradley, and quite...

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1-CD-Album deluxe with 72-page booklet, 32 tracks. Playing time approx. 84 mns. In country music history, 1963 goes down as the year of losses. At 2:00pm on Tuesday March 5, a Piper Comanche light airplane left Kansas City for Nashville. There were three passengers...

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1-CD-Album deluxe with 72-page booklet, 31 tracks. Playing time approx. 81 mns. Just as the folk boom triggered by Tom Dooley had exerted a brief impact upon country music in 1959, so contemporary folk music began to exert an influence upon country music in 1964. A...

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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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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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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. 86 mns. In 1965, Bill C. Malone published his doctoral dissertation on country music, and in 1968 it became widely available as Country Music U.S.A. Published for the American Folklore...

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1-CD Deluxe album with 72-page booklet, 28 tracks. Total playing time approx. 87 mns. On January 20, 1969, Richard Nixon became the thirty-seventh President of the United States. Later that year, he adopted the phrase silent majority to connote the preponderance...

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1-CD Deluxe album with 72-page booklet, 28 tracks. Total playing time approx. 86 mns. Our quarter-century retrospective ends here. In country music, as in the broader recording industry, change had been profound. In 1945, the only commercial sound-carrier was...

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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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1-CD with 28-page booklet, 9 tracks Playing time 24:19 mns. At the height of the Cold War, there were hundreds of thousands of American troops stationed overseas, many of them in Germany. The USO arranged tours to boost the morale of troops stationed far from...

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1-CD with 28-page booklet, 28 tracks. Playing time approx. 73 mns. Carl Butler and his wife, Pearl , were forever immortalized by their hit Don't Let Me Cross Over . It remains one of the all-time classics of hard country. But Don’t Let Me Cross Over was...

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1-CD DigiPac with 80-page booklet, 36 tracks; playing time 87:16 mns. This CD celebrates the 50th anniversary of the chart-topping pop/country/R&B single The Three Bells . Thirty-six timeless recordings from country music's greatest close-harmony trio. More...

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1-CD Digipak (4-plated) with 36-page booklet, 18 tracks. Playing time approx. 54 mns. Country music's greatest artists pay tribute to each other! A must-have for Johnny Cash fans! Includes the cult tribute records by African American country artist Stoney...

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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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1-CD with 8-page booklet, 26 tracks. Playing time approx. 63 mns. One of our first CDs, this still stands as one of the best. An incredible overview of Don's RCA sides, it established Bear Family's reputation for CD quality back in 1987. The 26 titles include Blue...

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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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1-CD-Album with 36-page booklet, 17 tracks, playing time 38:10 minutes. The very first…and very rarest…recordings of one of the all-time greatest stars in American music! Cross-label licensed, as only Bear Family can do! Fabulous hillbilly and honky tonk...

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1-CD with 40-page booklet, 23 tracks. Playing time approx.77 mns. The final album in our series, ‚A Matter of Life And Death … Plus‘ features David Allan Coe 's last LP for Columbia, together with some truly amazing bonus tracks. There's a single that he recorded...

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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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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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1-CD-Album DigiPac (4-plated) with 56-page booklet, 31 tracks. Playing time approx. 80 minutes. The complete 1950s Starday recordings by this master of Texas honky-tonk music, including the hit version of Too Hot To Handle and the original version of A Place For...

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1-CD with 12-page booklet, 30 tracks, Playing time 79:12 minutes. For over 45 years, Rex Franklin has been one of New Zealand's premier country artists. Influenced by the old time artists, he has held fast to the classic tradition of American country, infusing...

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1-CD with 35-page booklet, 33 tracks. Playing time approx. 78 mns. Watch for renewed press attention for Hank Thompson following his death in November 2007. 33 of Hank Thompson's hottest honky tonkers from Capitol, inclusive Rockin' In The Congo ! Seven...

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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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1-CD with 16-page booklet, 28 tracks. Playing time approx. 65 mns. Today he's a high profile evangelist, but in 1955 he was a young country singer with an astonishing range. Dave Rich was one of the great, undiscovered talents in country music when rock 'n' roll...

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1-CD DigiPac (6-plated) with 64-page booklet, 27 tracks, playing time 78:06 minutes. It was seventy years ago, on May 26, this year that country music's first superstar, Jimmie Rodgers died in a New York hotel room. He was thirty-five years old. Rodgers recorded...

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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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1-CD with 68-page booklet, 27 tracks. Playing time approx. 80 mns. Two of the most-requested LPs in our old mail order catalogues were 'Heroes, History & Heritage of Oklahoma' and 'Heroes, History & Heritage Vol. 2.' Now we've reissued them complete on one...

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American Originals1-CD with 8-page booklet, 11 tracks. Playing time approx. 45 mns. James Talley was born in Oklahoma. The singer/songwriter with roots in country, folk, and blues is living in Nashville. American music critics have been mentioning his name along...

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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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Wil Maring grew up in Makanda, Illinois, as the oldest of six children in a musical family. Through her father, an ethnomusicology professor, Wil came into contact with a wide variety of traditional ethnic music. At an early age she developed a love for folk and...

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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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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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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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1 CD with 36-page booklet, 31 individual tracks, playing time 78:32 minutes. The story of Tom Tall and Ginny Wright is inextricably bound up with one of the music business’s larger-than-life characters: Fabor Robison. In addition to Tom Tall and Ginny Wright,...

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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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1-CD-Album DigiPac (4-plated) with 62-page booklet, 31 tracks, playing 72:55 minutes. Thirty-one classic parodies and novelties from country music's legendary comedy team! Superb fidelity from the original 1951-1968 RCA Victor session masters with many tracks...

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1-CD with 20-page booklet, 19 tracks. Playing time approx. 49 mns. Here's a priceless document of early country radio. Johnnie & Jack (plus Johnnie's wife, Kitty Wells), went to KWKH, Shreveport, in 1948. Part of their income came from 15-minute sponsored radio...

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1-CD-Album with 31-page booklet, 21 tracks. Playing time approx. 66 minutes.

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1-CD with 24-page booklet, 26 tracks. Playing time approx. 65 mns. Leon Chappel (1909-1962) is one of the most compelling and unusual major label recording artists of the early 1950s, a hard-to-classify, almost anachronistic artist whose, spare and loose, blues-...

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