There sure was a change in Eddy Arnold in the early '50s, the period covered in toto by this Bear Family boxed set. Eager to shed his "Tennessee Plowboy" image from the late-'40s, Eddy began telling... more

All Music Guide calls this album "perhaps the most significant western album of the '60s," and you'd be hard-pressed to argue when you hear Eddy's ethereal takes on the Sons of the Pioneers' Cool... more

Arnold's late-'40s hits and countrypolitan albums of the mid-'60s tend to overshadow these 1958–64 gems he recorded for RCA Nashville (under the auspices of Chet Atkins). Nearly all of these are... more