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

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

Ernest's son had a warm vocal style that was leagues away from his dad's dry Texas drawl. But he did inherit a whole lot of talent from his father, a talent best displayed on his 1953–59 Decca sides.... more

Bear Family's terrific honky-tonk series Gonna Shake This Shack Tonight gives this great hillbilly vocal duo its first CD reissue: 29 tracks cut in Nashville, many with Hank Williams' band and the... more

Spade Cooley's Shame on You and Dick Thomas's rarely reissued #1 hit Sioux City Sue join Boogie Woogie Boy Porky Freeman (featuring Merle Travis); Blue Ranger Hank Snow; Don't Fence Me In Gene Autry;... more

A 52-page booklet joins 30 rare and unissued cuts recorded from '53 to the late '60s by Delta Records of Jackson, Mississippi. Lots of country and rockabilly finds to be found here: I Wanna Play... 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

On tour with Elvis in '55, Marty Robbins saw the future—and it rocked! Here are the rockabilly and rockin' country songs he went on to record (including his complete rare 1956 LP Rock 'n' Roll... 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

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

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

First-ever CD from one of the best—and most overlooked—country and rock 'n' roll singers. You'll hear his original version of the Jim Reeves smash He'll Have to Go; his rousing rockers Did We Have a... 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

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

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

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

Hank's 1951 smash The Rhumba Boogie wasn't the end of his adventure with Latin American rhythms; he delighted in them and with them for decades. Here are two versions of that classic; his 1953 hits... more

Every '50s cut (early demos and singles for Starday, Mercury, Dixie, Faith and D) by the Texas country singer who had the look and the voice to be a star and yet somehow never made it. You'll hear... 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

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

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

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

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

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

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