Bear Family already put out a set of Hank's Capitol recordings. Now, they chronicle what followed: two decades of music on Dot, ABC, MCA, Churchill and Warner Bros. The country-music marketplace... more

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Merle Haggard's '60s breakthrough came on Capitol and his '80s resurgence on Epic—but what happened in between? Ah, yes: his overlooked, underappreciated MCA recordings, which found the iconic... more

The first of two Bear Family sets that will chronicle the career of "Canada's Willie Nelson," one of Canada's greatest country stars! These 86 tracks (and 68 pages of booklet) comprehensively cover... more

You've got your Hank Snow, you've got your Wilf Carter—and you've got your Dick Damron, another of Canada's most treasured country stars. Bear Family recently released a 3-CD anthology of Dick's... more

The first of two forthcoming Eddie Noack retrospectives, this 104-track set contains every '50s single plus alternate takes, demos, rare tracks never before on CD and lots of fly-on-the-wall false... 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

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

Gene Vincent stops by to rock Be-Bop-A-Lula; Rocky Road Blues; High School Confidential, and more; you'll also see Midnight Special Merle Travis; Oklahoma Waltz Johnny Bond; Ridin' Old Paint Tex... 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

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

Ferlin Husky: Stay All Night, Stay a Little Longer, Yes I Will & All of the Time. Don Gibson: Stay All Night, Stay a Little Longer, Blue Blue Day (& Hank Garland) & Give Myself a Party. The Carter... more

Patsy Cline: Walkin' After Midnight. Faron Young: Stay All Night, Stay a Little Longer, Alone with You & Bouquet of Roses. Faron Young & Darrell McCall: My Country Girl & Chattanooga Shoe Shine Boy... more

The Texas Troubadour brought his honky tonk and country stylings to national television in the mid-1960s. Without a lot of fancy trappings, he showcased the music first and foremost. Now you can... more

Boy, did our German friends at Bear Family have some fun with this compilation! First off, there's the title, which we can't print in full. Then there's the songs, 25 of the most maudlin "tragedy"... 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

He was living in Nova Scotia, but young Hank was imagining himself in the American West since his earliest days. This suitably epic disc (nearly 87 minutes) takes you from the '30s to the '60s and... more

This Canadian dreamed of Hawaii ever since his mother played him soothing island songs on guitar when he was a kid. Here's his 1966 Snow in Hawaii LP plus Hawaii-minded tracks from every era of his... more