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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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(Bear Family Records) 12 tracks Lonely nights and chicken fights »Gallo de Cielo«, »Mandarin Oranges«, and »Cropduster«, were recorded in San Francisco in 1979-80 in a basement studio on the south side of town. I've cut the song several...
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(Bear Family Records) 12 tracks + inlay. Notes and production by Bill Clifton. Recorded August 13/14, 1977 at Riverside Recording Studio, Crum West Virginia.
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(Bear Family Records) 12 tracks German re-release of SP-4238 without "Don't Think Twice" but adds "Rave On" and "Love Denied". "Rave On" and "Love Denied" are in mono.
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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....
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1-CD with 24-page booklet, 30 tracks. Playing time approx. 76 mns. The legend of the central Texas dancehalls, Jimmie Heap never achieved much success. He recorded the original version of Release Me , as well as dance classics and...
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1-CD with 16-page booklet, 16 tracks. Playing time approx. 38 mns. In 1956 Marty's versions of Singing The Blues was scooped by Guy Mitchell . Marty knew he could reach the pop audience as easily as Mitchell and he demanded the chance....
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1-CD with 4-page booklet, 17 tracks. Playing time approx. 46 mns. When he was 16, Charles Lee Guy was convicted of manslaughter and was locked up. In jail, he learned how to play guitar and started writing songs. Then he sent a tape to...
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2-CD with 24-page booklet, 62 tracks. Playing time approx. 154 mns. Even in 1996, Jingle Bell Rock got back into the charts, almost 40 years after it was recorded. It's here along with all of Bobby's Decca recordings from 1956 to 1962...
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1-CD with 12-page booklet, 29 tracks. Playing time approx. 63 mns. Here are the fabulous '50s recordings by the woman who sung the original version of Dark Moon . She followed it with Mr. Fire Eyes, Love By The Jukebox Light, and a...
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1-CD with 12-page booklet, 20 tracks. Playing time approx. 44 mns. Twenty tracks--every one a guaranteed roof-raiser. Check out this line-up: Honky Tonk Man, Honky Tonk Hardwood Floor, I'm Coming Home, The Wild One, Lover's Rock, Ole...
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1-CD with 20-page booklet, 24 tracks. Playing time approx. 67 mns. Far more important than the Eagles getting back together was the 1966 reunion of Sara and Maybelle Carter. They had split up in 1944, and their reunion was midwifed by...
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1-CD with 24-page booklet, 29 tracks. Playing time approx. 64 mns. Here's the ultimate Roger Miller collection. It includes the ultra-rare and unjustly neglected RCA recordings and the best of the Smash recordings. In all 29 recordings,...
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1-CD with 16-page booklet, 25 tracks. Playing time approx. 61 mns. Tennessee Ernie was a fixture of the country music scene in Los Angeles when he recorded these tracks between 1949 and 1959. This is a collector's choice sweep through...
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1-CD with 16-page booklet, 22 tracks. Playing time approx. 73 mns. Oklahoma-born James Talley has been regarded one of the most innovative and talented singer/songwriters of the Seventies. As a composer, he expanded country music’s...
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1-CD with 16-page booklet, 25 tracks. Playing time approx. 67 mns. In 1959, RCA Nashville producer-guitarist Chet Atkins brought Jimmie Driftwood's ‘Tennessee Stud’ to Eddy Arnold and gave 'The Tennessee Plowboy' his first major hit in...
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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...
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1-CD with 12-page booklet, 22 tracks. Playing time approx. 66 mns. Michael is one of the new acts on Bear Family. A native Texan, he writes exceptionally fine cameos of life and love, and sings in a rough-hewn voice. On this collection,...
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1-CD with 12-page booklet, 19 tracks. Playing time approx. 47 mns. Here's the album Marty wanted to forget he ever recorded. The fabulously rare ten-inch LP has been rounded up to 19 tracks to include all of Marty's rock 'n' roll...
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1-CD with 24-page booklet, 24 tracks. Playing time approx. 67 mns. Perhaps the most individualistic songwriter in country music, John D. Loudermilk is only now getting the recognition he deserves. His own recording career never really...
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1-CD with 12-page booklet, 20 tracks. Playing time approx. 48 mns. Recorded between 1959 and 1966, here are 20 up-tempo and rockin' tracks from the man who could sing anything. There's a really rocking version of Ruby Ann that was...
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1-CD with 24-page booklet, 16 tracks. Playing time approx. 39 mns. The Farmer Boys were just legends among country and rockabilly collectors until we started digging. Now their full story is here, together with all 16 of their Capitol...
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1-CD with 16-page booklet, 30 tracks. Playing time approx. 73 mns. Wilf Carter already had a recording career spanning 20 years when he went to Nashville to record for Decca after he left RCA Victor. Between 1954 to 1958 Carter, yodeling...
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5-CD boxed set (LP-size) with 40-page book, 134 tracks. Playing time approx. 317 mns. ...picks up where the first volume leaves off. Johnny Cash was stretching the boundaries of country music. Here are his first religious albums, his LP...
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1-CD with 28-page booklet, 28 tracks. Playing time approx. 76 mns. Of all Hollywood's 'singing cowboys', Tex Ritter , with his tack-plain but sincere bass, sounded most like the genuine article. This 28-track overview of his Capitol...