Various 35 Years Bear Family 3-CD Box & 208-Page-Book

(3-CD boxed set, LP-size, with 208-page hardcover book. 68 tracks. Playing time: 219:07) -- Bear Family celebrates its 35th year in the business. Bear Family boxed sets continue to set the standard for reissues, worldwide. Exclusive anniversary offer for our friends at a very special price. Musicians and songwriters join to pay tribute to Bear Family. Original recordings - not available anywhere else. -- Bear Family Records came into being in the late summer of 1975. We want to celebrate the company's 35th anniversary with a very special release. -- A CD/book edition has been produced just for this event. You may purchase this item at a special price. Our friends in the music industry, musicians and songwriters, have written and recorded a collection of 'Bear' songs especially for our anniversary. These original recordings - 68 in all - are available exclusively on this LP-sized Bear Family boxed set. -- Especially interesting are the songs that deal not just with any old bear, but with our own Bear Family label - Jim Diamond: Bear Family; Deke Dickerson: Bear Family Talking Blues; Roland Heinrich: Sixteen Discs, and Kim Lenz: What I Crave. -- In the accompanying book, some of the world's leading music critics and experts pick their all-time favorite Bear Family releases. -- This CD boxed set is an unprecedented celebration because Bear Family is a record company without peer - and because a 35th anniversary only comes once every thirty five years!