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

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

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

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

Johnny Cash's smash live version of Folsom Prison Blues and Tammy Wynette's immortal Stand by Your Man alone are worth the price of admission. Also beautifully remastered: Tammy's #1 D-I-V-O-R-C-E;... more

Don was country all the way, but his career took off at the same time as rock 'n' roll—and that fiery sound rubbed off on many of his sides. Here's the first CD collection of his best up-tempo stuff:... 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

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 hottest picking by one of the coolest bands in the world, Ernest Tubb's Texas Troubadours! These 36 tracks (all their instrumentals together for the first time) chronicle the amazing sideline to... more

Like a roof-raising night in a Texas honky-tonk (without the guns and smoke)! Here are 30 of E.T.'s hottest up-tempo tracks: his hits "Tomorrow Never Comes," "You Nearly Lose Your Mind," "Walking the... more

Long before those famous truck-driving hits, Red rocked roofs off with his up-tempo honky tonk and hillbilly boogie. Here are 31 of those energized gems from 1949–61, recorded for MGM and Decca and... more

Jump and rock along with the hottest sides by the honky-tonk hero who left us in November 2007. A 36-page booklet tells his remarkable tale as you hear seven songs from his greatest LP, "Songs for... 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

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