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Country Classics – The Heartbeat of Americana
Timeless songs, heartfelt lyrics, and unforgettable voices – our Country Classics collection features legends like Johnny Cash, Patsy Cline, Hank Snow, Tammy Wynette, and George Jones.
From Nashville to your turntable
Explore essential albums, rare reissues, and collector’s editions on CD and vinyl – lovingly compiled for country fans old and new.
Real music. Real stories.
Start your journey through classic country – only at Bear Family Records, your home for authentic roots music.
Country Classics – The Heartbeat of Americana
Timeless songs, heartfelt lyrics, and unforgettable voices – our Country Classics collection features legends like Johnny Cash, Patsy Cline, Hank...
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Timeless songs, heartfelt lyrics, and unforgettable voices – our Country Classics collection features legends like Johnny Cash, Patsy Cline, Hank Snow, Tammy Wynette, and George Jones.
From Nashville to your turntable
Explore essential albums, rare reissues, and collector’s editions on CD and vinyl – lovingly compiled for country fans old and new.
Real music. Real stories.
Start your journey through classic country – only at Bear Family Records, your home for authentic roots music.
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Everything that the Queen of Country Music cut between 1949 and 1958, including such epochal hits It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels, Release Me, Lonely Side Of Town , ( I'll Always Be Your ) Fraulein , Makin' Believe, Paying For...
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CD with 32-page booklet, 22 tracks. Playing time approx. 78 mns. Songwriter Lesley Schatz collected a lot of material for these 1989-92 recordings while traveling in Europe, where she seems to have been especially moved by her...
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Ol' Porter may be a joke in some people's eyes, but he was very much for real here. These are his early recordings when he was the last great voice of the hillbilly era. This is raw, uncomprising country music from one of the masters....
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1-CD with 32-page booklet, 14 tracks. Playing time approx. 58 mns. Soon after Bobby returned to RCA in 1972, he recorded an entire LP of songs by the legendary songwriter, cartoonist and humorist Shel Silverstein. The album yielded three...
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1-CD with 24-page booklet, 22 tracks. Playing time approx. 60 mns. "Lost summers are usually the winding-down periods... like the first light that fades back into darkness before dawn, lost summers have a way of ending what needed to be...
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1-CD with 24-page booklet, 11 tracks. Playing time approx. 42 mns. -- 'Desperados Waiting For The Train' features songs by such Texas luminaries as Willie Nelson, Guy Clark, Waylon Jennings, Willis Allan Ramsey and others. On release,...
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5-CD box (LP-size) with 35-page book, 144 tracks. Playing time approx. 720 mns. Buck Owens has got his due, Merle Haggard too, so surely it must be time for Tommy Collins to get some recognition. Tommy Collins was the Godfather of the...
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1-CD with 36-page booklet, 30 tracks. Playing time approx. 70 mns. 'Walk On By' picks up Leroy van Dyke's story as he joined Mercury in 1961 and scored the biggest hit of his career with the international smash hit, 'Walk On By'. The...
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(Sugar Hill Records) 13 tracks An eclectic mix of roots music has been incorporated into the music of Oakland, California-based singer and acoustic guitarist Kathy Kallick. Kallick has played everything from traditional folk music and...
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1-CD with 16-page booklet, 24 tracks. Playing time approx. 53 mns. These ultra-rare 'X' and RCA recordings cut between 1954 and 1958 feature some of the most idiosyncratic country music ever cut. Anyone fascinated with the Bakersfield...
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1-CD with 24-page booklet, 30 tracks. Playing time approx. 78 mns. When Jimmy Swan died in 1995, an era died with him. Jimmy Swan played hard bitten unapologetic hillbilly music, and he later turned to hard bitten unapologetic...
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1-CD with 32-page booklet, 29 tracks. Playing time approx. 74 mns. Was he the hardcore hillbilly singer Jimmie Logsdon or the untamed rockabilly Jimmie Lloyd? The answer is that he was both, and he not only made some of the greatest Hank...
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4-CD box (LP-size) with 16-page book, 112 tracks. Playing time approx. 290 mns. Petite and grandmotherly, Rose Maddox can still belt it out with the best of them. Between 1959 and 1965 she recorded a series of albums for Capitol that are...
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He was touted as the successor to Johnny Horton because he was from Shreveport, he had the same manager and record company, and sung much the same type of songs - but Claude was no Johnny Come Lately. He had been recording since 1947,...
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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...
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1-CD with 20-page booklet, 14 tracks. Playing time approx. 35 mns. They make an unusual couple. When Connie Francis and Hank Williams, Jr., entered Columbia's Nashville recording studio in May, 1964, to record this album, they were at...
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1-CD with 12-page booklet, 30 tracks. Playing time approx. 70 mns. Back in 1955 bluegrass veteran Mac Wiseman feared that country music was about to be swept away by rock 'n' roll, so he decided he'd better cut himself some rock 'n'...
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A tortuous path took Stu Phillips from Montreal, Canada to Nashville. His first stop was Edmonton in western Canada, and he began recording there. He was a radio and TV star in Canada by the late 1950s, and he signed with Rodeo Records...
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1-CD with 24-page booklet, 26 tracks. Playing time approx. 79 mns. Here's a true 'Best Of' one of the great, innovative and most successful country stars of the Sixties. For pioneering crossover country, nothing beats Jimmy's Columbia...
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1-CD with 16-page booklet, 30 tracks. Playing time approx. 78 mns. Bob King lived almost all his life in the Ottawa Valley, Canada. He was offered gigs in the United States, but stayed at home. He loved traditional country music, and the...
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1-CD with 20-page booklet, 27 tracks. Playing time approx. 67 mns. "Shades" picks up Sanford Clark 's story. His deep soulful baritone is heard on 1960 recordings with Don Cole , 1967-8 sides with Waylon Jennings and others, and 1973 and...
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1-CD with 16-page booklet, 26 tracks. Playing time approx. 63 mns. Continuing our Bob King retrospective, the 26 songs here comprise Bob's late Fifties and early Sixties singles for Banff Records. There are originals, like My Petite...
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8-CD box (LP-size) with 60-page book, 209 tracks. Playing time approx. 599 mns. Skiffle was a phenomenon; Lonnie Donegan was a phenomenon. For many it was one and the same, until rock 'n' roll killed skiffle - and Lonnie became a legend...
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Burl Ives A Little Bitty Tear (5-CD) He is a man of many talents: singer, author, Academy Award winning actor, folk music scholar and performer. He was a companion of Woody Guthrie, and one of the few who laid the foundation for the Folk...