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This Nashville-born singer-songwriter scored a long streak of Decca hits from 1964–77, but this collection chronicles his breakthrough years—38 rockers and ballads he cut during the era when rock 'n'... more

Bobbie Gentry's breakthrough Ode to Billie Joe; Robert Mitchum's Top 10 entry Little Ole Wine Drinker Me; the Waylon Jennings classic The Chokin' Kind, and the unforgettable George Jones #1 Walk... more

Operating from a Hollywood Boulevard office near Capitol, Sage & Sand recorded an eclectic mix of country, Western and rockabilly. This 34-track CD collects their best up-tempo country cuts and tells... more

Conway Twitty's all-time biggest hit, Hello Darlin', and his other 1970 #1 hit, Fifteen Years Ago, join a heap of other #1s here: Rose Garden Lynn Anderson (her all-time biggest hit); Coal Miner's... more

Country-rockers the Byrds (Drug Store Truck Drivin' Man) and the Flying Burrito Brothers (Sin City) join the country stars of '69, including Merle Haggard (his signature smash Okie from Muskogee),... more

Johnny Cash's smash live version of Folsom Prison Blues and Tammy Wynette's immortal Stand by Your Man alone are worth the price of admission. Also beautifully remastered: Tammy's #1 D-I-V-O-R-C-E;... more

This honky-tonk hero issued an LP called The Fantastic Johnny Horton in '59, but that one contained his early Mercury sides. This comp collects the key Columbia cuts that followed—the rockin'-est... more

Mixing big hits with lesser-known, blues-edged gems, this CD brings you 87 minutes of what John Lennon called "the greatest voice of the rock 'n' roll era." Bigelow 6-200, recorded when she was 11,... more

The hottest picking by one of the coolest bands in the world, Ernest Tubb's Texas Troubadours! These 36 tracks (all their instrumentals together for the first time) chronicle the amazing sideline to... more

Every note that Merle Haggard recorded for Capitol as a solo artist in the studio between 1969 and 1976, his peak years. And when we say "peak," we mean it; very few artists have scaled the heights... more

This is the first collection in 52 years devoted to Hank's up-tempo cuts; a guitar-only demo of "Ten Little Numbers" and rockin' take of "Fool About You" join his hits "Jambalaya (On the Bayou),"... more

Be they by household names or complete unknowns, these RCA cuts reveal the shakin', rattlin', rollin' hillbilly roots behind rockabilly and rock 'n' roll. A 52-page booklet joins Hep Cat Baby Eddy... more

On this DVD, Bear Family presents one complete show from Town Hall on Halloween night recorded forty-four years ago. Set the time machine to October 31, 1959, and sit back and enjoy what no one has... more

The Wayward Wind; Have I Stayed Away Too Long Tex Ritter; If You Ain't Loving You Ain't Living; Goin' Steady Faron Young; the Tijuana Jail Johnny Bond; Gotta Travel on Skeets McDonald; Steel Guitar... more

Long before those famous truck-driving hits, Red rocked roofs off with his up-tempo honky tonk and hillbilly boogie. Here are 31 of those energized gems from 1949–61, recorded for MGM and Decca and... more

Already a star since the late '50s, Buck Owens saw his star rise yet further in the late '60s, when he started co-hosting "Hee-Haw," sold out concert after concert and cracked the country Top 10... more

Even with all the Western swing fans begging for more, there still remain some prime unissued recordings. Leave it to Bear Family to sniff 'em out; here are 31 lost treasures (and look at those big... more

Johnny pumped the energy of rockabilly into honky-tonk music, making him the perfect addition to the "Shake This Shack" series. These aren't his story-songs that hit the pop charts; these are his... more

One of the first masters of electric steel guitar (he recorded the all-time classic "Steel Guitar Rag" with Bob Wills), Leon cut tracks for many labels—but his hottest stuff came out on Columbia from... more

Loretta Lynn's #1 Don't Come Home A'Drinkin' (with Lovin' on Your Mind); two versions of Jim Reeves' #1 Distant Drums (one dubbed, one undubbed), and three Merle Haggard Top 10s (Swinging Doors; The... more

Bear Family already earned a Grammy nod for their Bristol Sessions set (the 1927 Victor Records sessions in Bristol, Tennessee known as "The Big Bang of Country Music"). This new set—a 4-CD LP-sized... more

First anthology of the Dot sides by one of the greatest (and first) electric steel guitarists! Leon signed to Dot in '57 and stayed for just over a year; these hard-to-find tracks have long been... more

Around 1956-'57, the United States Armed Services filmed a series of recruitment videos with the top country stars of the day. Unseen for decades, these films capture the all-time greatest Nashville... more

Here are 33 early performances by "The Best Friend a Song Ever Had!" These were recorded from 1956–63, before Twitty's rise to country superstardom; he was still a rock 'n' roll balladeer when he... more

I Got a Woman; My Baby Walks All over Me Bob Luman; Bumming Around Tex Williams; Cigarettes and Coffee Blues Lefty Frizzell; Guitar Blues Instrumental Quincy Snodgrass & Skeet's McDonald; Boogie... more