Down in Muscle Shoals, Alabama, Atlantic Records' Jerry Wexler had fallen out with Rick Hall at FAME studio after an Aretha Franklin session ended with Aretha storming back to New York. Wexler later... more

EU collection. The harmonica as a lead instrument for rock and roll! Yeah, sure, why not? Especially when the mouth harp is wielded by James Cotton, the man who grew up with blues giants during the... more

"Ooby Dooby" is a song we recall as the first pop hit of a major pop star. Charting in '56, that tune arrived four years before Orbison's '60s pop hit streak began. It is to that '50s era that this... more

The Father of Country Music was honored by one of its great artists on this 1969 LP. Not only does Merle's love for Jimmie Rodgers' music seep through every song (and the between-track narration),... more

This outstanding 29-track retrospective brings you all of Roger's early RCA hits ("When Two Worlds Collide," "You Don't Want My Love" and "Lock, Stock and Teardrops"), his huge hits on the Smash... more

Bobby returned to RCA after a couple years with Mercury with this 1973 LP, his first full-on collaboration with Shel Silverstein. The album was a smash, giving him his two biggest hits, Daddy What If... more

All of his Sun recordings (including some 30 unissued tracks) taken from the original tapes for the first time, plus the fruits of his first year at Columbia ("I Still Miss Someone," etc.) newly... more

These 28 sides (on one CD) get you every single track (including alternates) that Roy recorded for Sun! His first hit, "Ooby Dooby," joins "Go! Go! Go!," "Rock House," "Devil Doll," "Domino," "Mean... more

2020 collection. On this very personal selection - mostly up-tempo numbers and brilliantly arranged pop - you will find rarities and greatest hits. Among them her smash hits 'What A Diff'rence A Day... more

Bear Family have condensed the 'The Lonesome Sound' album to 10 inch size, and the album comprised 12 songs that were written and previously recorded by other artists. The specialists at Bear Family... more

"Splish Splash" wasn't just a flirtation with rock 'n' roll—Bobby started out cutting sides in the vein of Elvis, Fats and Little Richard, and these are 36 tracks from his earliest days! The... more

6 CDs chronicling some of the most radical and experimental country music ever waxed right alongside huge hits like "Ring of Fire," "Understand Your Man," "Rosanna's Going Wild" and "Folsom Prison... more

Everything Johnny recorded for Columbia during those fateful years when he was stretching the boundaries of country music. Among the 134 tracks are his LP of country standards, religious albums, hits... more

Like the critically acclaimed movie, our story also begins in Folsom Prison. But unlike the movie, there is not a word of truth in our story. Inspired by an idea from Bear Family's Richard Weize,... more

Marty Robbins was a reticent television performer. His appearances during the early part of his career were few, so this DVD is a treasure trove. Here are performances and interviews dating from... more

Bear Family's second volume of Waylon's pre-outlaw recordings offers another 60-page hardcover book along with every side—all 147 of 'em—he cut for RCA between June 1968 and the end of 1972. The hits... more

Marty Robbins was always a cowboy at heart, and this 4-CD set from Bear Family collects his complete Western recordings, drawn from the series of Western LPs he released from the late '50s through... more

This 5-CD, 100-plus-song set does not disappoint, offering his complete Tally and Capitol recordings—save for the Jimmie Rodgers tribute album—from 1963 to 1968 with some unissued tracks. All the... more

This 5-CD set contains his complete early recordings, 125-plus tracks that include hits like "I'll Go On Alone," "That's All Right," "Singing the Blues" and "I Can't Quit" along with a complete... more

Island-flavored recordings by the ever-versatile Marty Robbins, including the complete "Hawaii's Calling Me" album of 1963 that did for Hawaiian music what Paul Simon's "Graceland" did for South... more

Johnny Cash, Loretta Lynn, Dr. Hook & the Medicine show…many artists recognized the singular songwriting talent of Shel Silverstein and covered his songs. But no one signed on to the Silverstein plan... more

169 tracks that start with Waylon's first Buddy Holly-produced single in September 1958 and take us all the way up to April 1968. In between lie his legendary album Waylon at JD's and other rare... more

148 blessed tracks from the group that did for gospel what Elvis did for R&B, absorbing blues, jazz, R&B and black gospel into their own white Southern gospel and thereby bringing gospel to the... more

JOHNNY CASH / NIGHT RIDER - BEAR FAMILY. Late 1950's producers got together and made a TV series with each episode based on a hit song. No market for TV so it turned into a featurette "'The Night... more

Como didn't always take it slow and easy—he could rock the uptempo songs, and that's all he does on this unique collection of his most "up" stuff. Here are his vintage smashes "Don't Let the Stars... more