These 6 CDs chronicle Sun's country output from 1950–59: big stars plus artists who never made it but sure sound like they should've. You'll hear newly restored audio and newly discovered tracks, and... more

"The single most important event in the history of country music." That's not us or Bear Family talking—that's what Johnny Cash called this matchless storehouse of traditional American music. Victor... more

Bear Family already wowed collectors with "The Bristol Sessions" and "The Johnson City Sessions." Now, the venerable German label completes its sweeping survey of '20s/early-'30s East Tennessee... 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

That price might seem steep if you ever had the good fortune to attend a Louisiana Hayride show at the Municipal Auditorium in Shreveport, Louisiana; after all, it only cost 60 cents for adults (30... more

We usually think "red-hot rockabilly" when we think Sun Records—but this 78-track set spotlights their seldom-revisited softer side. The first-ever in-depth look at Sun's ballads is chock-full of... more

This grizzly of a Bear Family box packs 307 tracks into 10 CDs, bringing together their best (and rarest) blues, R&B and gospel sides plus Sam Phillips productions that were issued by Chess, RPM,... more

The German label Bear Family once again boldly goes where no label has ever gone before, offering an 11-CD-plus-DVD record of the recordings made in Berlin by the Judischer Kulturbund (Jewish... more

Bear Family takes you back to Port of Spain, Trinidad during Carnival with this amazing 10-CD set, which presents the complete, massive library of calypso sounds that Decca and producer Ralph Perez... more

Bear Family once again presents an entire college course masquerading as a boxed set with Next Stop Vietnam, the German label's look at the Vietnam conflict's impact on American society, an impact... more

In 1945, the town we now know as Music City U.S.A. had no pro-quality studios, no career session men, no record companies and only one or two music publishers. But then the independent-label scene... more

EU-only eight disc (seven CDs + PAL/Region 2 DVD) box. The fall of Madrid in March 1939 and Franco's subsequent dictatorship marked the bloody conclusion of almost three years of civil war in Spain.... more

5 CDs and one DVD (NTSC, region code 0) box set (LP sized) with a 250 page hardcover book. 'Atomic Platters' is the result of a years in the making musical 'Manhattan Project' that collects over 100... more

From late '56 to mid-'57 it seemed like rock 'n' roll was out and calypso was here to stay. It spread from glee clubs to the dance floor, from TV and movies to the top of the charts. Of course it was... more

EU-only six CD collection. This set is a full, long overdue anthology of the music and musicians who created Skiffle. From the African American forebears of the 1920s and '30s like the Memphis Jug... more

Elvis, Jerry Lee, Johnny, Carl and Roy get all the ink, but Sam Phillips' label housed quite a few female singers, and this incredible Bear Family production presents a full 6 CDs of largely... more

In April 1964, right at the beginning of Beatlemania, RCA Nashville took the audacious step of sending its biggest stars to Europe. Those making the trip were Jim Reeves, Bobby Bare, the Anita Kerr... more

5 CD boxset with booklet.

The sixth and final volume of Bear Family's monumental series of boxed sets devoted to the legendary Texas honky tonk label, D Records! This last volume is especially noteworthy because it contains... more

We pick up the story in 1955 and head straight into the golden age of the label with 100 more classic sides.

The fifth volume takes us through the last releases on Sun Records and the first on Phillips International, covering the Sun singles from 1962–1968 and the Phillips singles from 1957–1959.

Over 120 tracks from Joe Leonard's Lin Records label! Based in Gainesville, Texas, from 1954–1968, Lin and its Kliff subsidiary had just one national hit (Ken Copeland's Pledge of Love, included... more

It took a while for Bear Family to find and restore the sound of all these classic Cajun recordings made by legendary producer J.D. Miller in the '40s and '50s—and to track down as many survivors and... more

It was 1966, and the success of the American Folk & Blues festivals in Europe led to an American Festival of *Country* Music. But not the slick, Nashville stuff—instead, European audiences were... more

(3-CD + 88 page booklet) Bear Family's essential 44-CD set 'Black Europe' follows the lives of more than 100 musicians, dancers and entertainers across Europe and tells their amazing stories through... more