Folk Music CDs & World Music CDs produced as high quality albums by Bear Family

Woody Guthrie: Woody Guthrie - The Tribute Concerts Art-Nr.: BCD17329

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Exclusive 3-CD set accompanied by two beautifully illustrated books containing historic liner notes and Guthrie biography, original concert reviews and photographs, attendees interviews and artists bios, and concert ephemera. , *...

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Arthur Q. Smith: The Trouble With The Truth (2-CD) Art-Nr.: BCD17426

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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...

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Various - History: Hootenanny in Ost-Berlin (CD) Art-Nr.: BCD17425

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1-CD Digipak (4-sided) with 40-page booklet, 35 tracks. Total playing time approx. 80 minutes. An impressive audio document telling the history of singer/songwriters and folk musicians in the German Democratic Republic (GDR) during the...

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Various - Bear Family Records: 40 Years Bear Family Records (3-CD - 1-DVD) Art-Nr.: BCD17050

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3-CD/1-DVD boxed set (LP-size) with 308-page hardcover book, 72 tracks (plus 2 documentations). Total playing time approx. 223 minutes (audio), 75v minutes DVD video) Bear Family celebrates its 40th year in the business Bear Family boxed...

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Troubadours - Folk And The Roots Of American Music Vol. 3 (3-CD)

Various - Troubadours: Troubadours - Folk And The Roots Of American... Art-Nr.: BCD17403

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3-CD Digipak mit 112-seitigem Booklet, 63 Einzeltitel. Gesamtspieldauer ca. 233 Minuten Along with folklorist Alan Lomax, Pete Seeger was a primary figure in seeding and shaping the American folk music revival. He never viewed himself as...

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Troubadours - Folk And The Roots Of American Music Vol. 4 (3-CD)

Various - Troubadours: Troubadours - Folk And The Roots Of American... Art-Nr.: BCD17404

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Deutschsprachige Ausgabe: BCD 17228 3-CD Digipak with 140-page booklet, 80 tracks. Total playing time approx. 257 mns. The West Coast If the East Coast primarily nurtured the contemporary folk scene, Los Angeles and San Francisco were...

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Troubadours - Folk And The Roots Of American Music Vol. 2 (3-CD)

Various - Troubadours: Troubadours - Folk And The Roots Of American... Art-Nr.: BCD17402

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3-CD Digipak with 120-page booklet (English language), 70 tracks. Total playing time approx. 221 mns. In the one hundred years that folk music has been recorded in the United States, the tradition has embraced ballads - mostly new, but...

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Troubadours - Folk And The Roots Of American Music Vol. 1 (3-CD)

Various: Troubadours - Folk And The Roots Of American... Art-Nr.: BCD17401

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3-CD Digipak with 152-page booklet (English language), 75 tracks. Total playing time approx. 203 mns. In the one hundred years that folk music has been recorded in the United States, the tradition has embraced ballads - mostly new, but...

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Atomic Platters: Single Warhead Edition w - bonus tracks

Various - History: Atomic Platters: Single Warhead Edition w -... Art-Nr.: BCD17342

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1-CD Digipak with 80-page booklet , 32 tracks. Total playing time approx. 74 mns. • , , ,On one jam-packed disc you get 32 of the wildest, most radioactive Cold War tracks. • , , ,This collection also features...

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Various - History: Calypso Craze (6-CD - 1-DVD Box) Art-Nr.: BCD16947

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6-CD / 1-DVD boxed set (LP-size) with 176-page hardcover book, 173 tracks. Total playing time approx. 484 mns. - DVD: 14 chapters, c. 86 minutes The set comprises six CDs, covering the following topics: • Before The Craze: Calypso Hits...

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Spanien im Herzen - Lieder des Spanischen Bürgerkrieges (7-CD - 1-DVD Box)

Various - History: Spanien im Herzen - Lieder des Spanischen... Art-Nr.: BCD16093

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7-CD/1-DVD Box (LP-format) with 316-page hardbound book, 127 tracks. Total playing time approx. 326 mns. • 127 Spanish Civil War songs on 7 CDs. • 300-page hardbound book in three languages (English, Spanish, German) • Featuring all...

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Over There! Sounds And Images From Black Europe (3-CD)

Various - History: Over There! Sounds And Images From Black Europe... Art-Nr.: BCD16020

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3-CD Digipak (8-plated) with 88-page booklet, 76 tracks. Total playing time approx. 211 mns. Featuring four artists from Bear Family’s sold-out 44-disc set ‘Black Europe’. Early ‘coon songs’ and snappy ragtime music from nearly 100 years...

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Teil 3, Folk und die Wurzeln amerikanischer Musik (3-CD)

Various - Troubadours: Teil 3, Folk und die Wurzeln amerikanischer... Art-Nr.: BCD17227

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English version with extensive linernotes: BCD 17403 3-CD Digipak mit 112-seitigem Booklet, 63 Einzeltitel. Gesamtspieldauer ca. 233 Minuten Along with folklorist Alan Lomax, Pete Seeger was a primary figure in seeding and shaping the...

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Various - 1000 Nadelstiche: Vol.12, Folk & Pop - Amerikaner & Briten singen... Art-Nr.: BCD16620

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1-CD with 40-page booklet, 26 tracks, playing time 73:03 minutes. 1000 pinpricks, episode 12 (Folk & Pop) For the CD series '1000 Needlesticks' we have opened nearly all available style drawers in the already available episodes 1 to 11:...

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Bonnie Guitar: Intimate Session Art-Nr.: BCD16878

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1-CD-Album Digipak (4-plated) with 28-page booklet, 14 tracks. Playing time: 31:54. An intimate session with one of the unheralded greats of country music! Sexy, sultry, and riveting! A previously unissued 1959 session arranged and...

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Carolyn Hester: At Town Hall Art-Nr.: BCD15520

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1-CD with 32-page booklet, 24 tracks. Playing time approx. 71 mns. In February 1965, Norman Petty recorded Carolyn Hester in concert at New York City's Town Hall. Hester's clear, keening voice, accompanied by George Tomsco's guitar,...

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Wally Whyton: Children Songs Of Woody Guthrie Art-Nr.: BCD16125

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1-CD with 20-page booklet, 18 tracks. Playing time approx. 35 mns. Wally Whyton 's career spread over 40 years and established him both in Britain and internationally. In more recent years he was respected as the voice of Country Music...

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NORRIS: People Art-Nr.: BCD16445

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1-CD with 30-page booklet, 21 tracks. Playing time approx. 78 mns. Norris - a name that is closely related to the folk and bluegrass movement at the beginning of the 70s. A truly loveable and warm hearted musician, Norris ' still well...

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Gordon Lightfoot: Sunday Concert, Plus Art-Nr.: BCD15691

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1-CD with 36-page booklet, 16 tracks. Playing time approx. 54 mns. Gordon Lightfoot's Massey Hall concerts in Toronto are a 30-year tradition. The March 30th, 1969 concert not only allowed the singer/songwriter an opportunity to perform...

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John Stewart: Cannons In The Rain - Wingless Angels (CD) Art-Nr.: BCD15519

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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...

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Gordon Lightfoot: Lightfoot! - The Way I Feel (CD) Art-Nr.: BCD15576

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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...

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Jim & Ingrid Croce: Bombs Over Puerto Rico Art-Nr.: BCD15894

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1-CD with 24-page booklet, 11 tracks. Playing time approx. 28 mns. Three years before his breakthrough hit, Don't Mess Around With Jim , Jim Croce was half of a folk singer-songwriter duo with his wife, Ingrid Croce . The New York-based...

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IAN & SYLVIA: The Beginning Of The End Art-Nr.: BCD15940

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1-CD with 8-page booklet, 15 tracks. Playing time approx. 52 mns. Canada's Ian & Sylvia Tyson were leading lights in the 1960s folk world with songs like Four Strong Winds and Someday Soon , and they had pioneered the folk-rock fusion on...

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Various - History: The Sound Of Tiki (CD) Art-Nr.: BCD16338

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1-CD Digipak (4-plated) with 49-page booklet, 17 tracks. Playing time approx. 44 mns. A musical cocktail: The 'Sound Of Tiki'. Travel to distant tropical places in the confines of your living room! Experience the popular myths of Tiki...

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OUGENWEIDE: Ougenweide - All die weil ich mag (CD) Art-Nr.: BCD16775

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1-CD-Album with 40-page booklet, 22 tracks, playing time 76:28 minutes. Back in 1971, the year that Ougenweide made their public debut at a Hamburg school fête, Hansestadt Hamburg was an electrifying place to be. Like most major ports,...

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OUGENWEIDE: Fryheit - Ousflug Art-Nr.: BCD15962

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1-CD with 16-page booklet, 25 tracks. Playing time approx. 82 minutes. If a German band deserves the credit for combining medieval texts with modern pop music and making them accessible to a broad audience for the first time, then it is...

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Bonnie Dobson: Vive La Canadienne Art-Nr.: BCD16720

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1-CD-Album DigiPac - four panel - with booklet, 24 tracks. Playing time: 81:50 minutes. A long-overdue reissue of the rare folk recordings of Canadian singer Bonnie Dobson . Her 1961 composition Morning Dew continues to draw attention...

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OUGENWEIDE: Ohrenschmaus - Eulenspiegel Art-Nr.: BCD16779

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1 CD album with 42-page booklet, 22 tracks, playing time 73:51 minutes. The first four studio albums of the most famous German folk rock band for the first time on CD Digital remastered from the original tapes With all texts and an...

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Peter Lafarge: Songs Of The Cowboys - Iron Mountain Art-Nr.: BCD15627

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1-CD with 48-page booklet, 29 tracks. Playing time approx. 79 mns. One of many ironies surrounding Peter La Farge is that he could legitimately claim to be both Indian and cowboy. On his 1964 Folkways album of cowboy songs, La Farge...

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KINGSTON TRIO: The Guard Years (10-CD Box Set) Art-Nr.: BCD16160

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10-CD box (LP-size) with 108-page hardcover book, 240 tracks. Playing time approx. 630 mns. The Kingston Trio was not just a folk group - it was a phenomenon. Witty, clean-cut and charismatic, the trio captured the public's imagination...

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OUGENWEIDE: Ungezwungen (CD) Art-Nr.: BCD16141

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1-CD with 24-page booklet, 12 tracks, playing time 72:41 minutes. Further CDs by Ougenweide, with all lyrics and an accompanying word by Minnesang specialist Dr. Lothar Jahn After the great success of the first four LPs on 2 CDs, Bear...

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Troubadours - Folk und die Wurzeln amerikanischer Musik Teil 1 (3-CD)

Various - Troubadours: Troubadours - Folk und die Wurzeln... Art-Nr.: BCD17225

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English version with extensive linernotes: BCD 17401 3-CD Digipak mit 152-seitigem Booklet (in deutscher Sprache), 75 Einzeltitel. Gesamtspieldauer ca. 203 Minuten Seit etwa einhundert Jahren wird die Geschichte der Folk Music in den...

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Hedy West& Bill Clifton: Getting Folk Out Of The Country Art-Nr.: BCD16754

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1-CD-Album Digipak with 36-page booklet, 12 tracks. Playing time 35:06 mns. In the '70s I booked various American artists to play the German folk clubs. Now, on the occasion of Bear Family's 35th anniversary, I'm getting sentimental and...

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Sol Sain - Jiddische Musik in Deutschland und ihre Einflüsse Vol.2 (1953-2009)

Various - Sol Sajn: Sol Sain - Jiddische Musik in Deutschland und... Art-Nr.: BCD16914

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3-CD Digipack with 128 page booklet, 62 tracks. Playing time: 237:48 minutes. Jiddisch Music / Klezmer, a synonym for vitality and diversity. This new series 'Sol Sain - Jiddische Musik in Deutschland und ihre Einflüsse' collection is...

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Janette Carter: Deliverance Will Come Art-Nr.: BCD16335

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1 CD with 20-page booklet, 31 singles titles. Playing time approx. 78 minutes. Every Saturday night for a quarter-century, Janette Carter has taken the stage at the Carter Family Fold in Hiltons, Virginia, making good the promise she...

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EASY RIDERS: Marianne (6-CD) Art-Nr.: BCD15780

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6-CD box (LP-size) with 24-page book, 173 tracks. Playing time approx. 425 mns. Here are the missing years of the folk movement - the years between the Weavers and the Kingston Trio. The Easy Riders existed before Terry Gilkyson (writer...

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Babatunde Olatunji: Drums Of Passion 4-CD & Book-Buch Art-Nr.: BCD15747

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We hear so much about world music these days, and so little about Olatunji who single-handedly popularised African percussion in North America. Originally from Nigeria, he cut a series of LPs for Columbia between 1959 and 1966. As...

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Jack Elliott: At Lansdowne Studios, London Art-Nr.: BCD16630

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1-CD-Album Digipak (4-plated) with 42-page booklet, 33 tracks. Playing time approx. 88 mns. He was idolized by Bob Dylan - a true original Folk Era hero!H introduced American folk music to England and Europe!Includes 8 previously...

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Sam Hinton: The Library Of Congress Session,March 25,1947 Art-Nr.: BCD16383

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1-CD with 28-page booklet, 46 tracks. Playing time approx. 79 mns. In the spring of 1947, Sam Hinton , a young folk singer made his first recordings for the Library of Congress. He recorded 54 songs that day. Most of the songs on this CD...

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Janette & Joe Carter: Carter Family Favorites Art-Nr.: BCD16379

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1-CD with 16-page booklet, 12 tracks. Playing time approx. 32 mns. In celebration of Janette Carter 's eightieth birthday on July 2, 2003, Bear Family Records and County Records are proud to make available once more Janette and Joe...

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Peter Lafarge: On The Warpath - As Long As The Grass Shall ... Art-Nr.: BCD15626

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1-CD with 68-page booklet, 27 tracks. Playing time approx. 68 mns. Peter La Farge , Indian activist, folksinger, Korean War veteran and rodeo bull rider, lived a lot in his 33 years. He is best remembered for writing Ballad Of Ira Hayes...

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Lovey's Original Trinidad String Band: Calypso Dawn: 1912 (Trinidad String Band) Art-Nr.: BCD16057

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1-CD Digipac (4-plated) with 32-page booklet, 24 tracks, playing time approx. 72 mns. This is the story of an exciting discovery. The very first recorded examples of calypso music. When researching aspects of the history of the...

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Carolyn Hester: Dear Companion (2-CD) Art-Nr.: BCD15701

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2-CD with 52-page booklet, 60 tracks. Playing time approx. 159 mns. Though later overshadowed in the folk diva sweepstakes by Baez and Collins, Texas-born Carolyn Hester preceded both with her 1958 debut album and, judging from this...

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Anita Carter: Ring Of Fire Art-Nr.: BCD15434

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1-CD with 20-page booklet, 26 tracks. Playing time approx. 71 mns. The youngest of Mother Maybelle's three daughters, Anita Carter had a pure soprano voice ideally suited to the sort of folk material she recorded for Mercury between 1962...

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KINGSTON TRIO: The Stewart Years (10-CD Box Set) Art-Nr.: BCD16161

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10-CD Box (LP-Format) mit 108-seitigem gebundenem Buch, 286 Einzeltitel, Spieldauer 711:25 Minuten. The Kingston Trio rose to the top of the pop charts in 1958 with the multi-million seller Tom Dooley , and soon had several #1 gold...

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Various - History: Deep Roots Of Johnny Cash Art-Nr.: BCD16844

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1-CD Digipak (4-plated) with 35-page booklet, 24 tracks. Playing time approx. 67 mns. These are the songs Johnny Cash heard back in Arkansas during his youth. Throughout his career, he returned to them often. These, though, are the...

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OUGENWEIDE: Ja-Markt - Noch aber ist April Art-Nr.: BCD15974

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1-CD with 44-page booklet, 16 tracks. Playing time approx. 74 minutes. Awakening and change At the end of the seventies Ougenweide had become an institution: They had created their own genre with the Minne Rock, presented an excellent...

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Various - History: Atomic Platters (5CD & 1DVD mit 292-seitigem... Art-Nr.: BCD16065

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5-CD/1-DVD Box (LP-format) with 292-page hardcover book, 142 tracks, playing time approx. 6 hrs. 12 mns (audio); 9 clips (DVD, region: 0) Certain parallels between those days and the present obsession with Homeland Security can be pretty...

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ALLERTON & ALTON: Black, White And Bluegrass Art-Nr.: BCD16559

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1-CD Digipak, four panel, with booklet, 27 tracks. Playing time 70:51 minutes. Historic Country Music Discovery! Recordings of an Interracial Duo located after 60 Years. Sometimes people who make music history have no idea they're doing...

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