CONNIE SMITH: LATEST SHADE OF BLUE - COLUMBIA RECORDINGS 1973 - 1976 (4-CD DELUXE BOX SET): LIMITED AND NUMBERED EDITION OF 1,000 COPIES!: 4-CD BOX SET (LP-SIZE) WITH 96-PAGE HARDCOVER BOOK, 96... more

A 5-CD, 159-track set containing his COMPLETE recordings from 1953 to 1964! This is the Big Bang of the Bakersfield Sound, featuring demos, LPs and legendary singles like Under Your Spell Again;... more

Guitarists like Jerry Reed, George Harrison, Carl Perkins, Scotty Moore, Doc Watson, Leo Kottke and Mark Knopfler spent hours listening to the albums contained on this 7-CD set…now it's your turn!... more

Bear Family picks up where their first Osborne Brothers set left off with every track this spectacular bluegrass duo recorded for MCA/Decca from 1968 to the end of their association with the label in... 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

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

We pick up the story in 1955 and head straight into the golden age of the label with 100 more classic sides.

Billy's complete Columbia recordings, starting in 1949 when he was known as the Masked Singer all the way to 1965 when he was busy defining the Nashville Sound! Includes such hits as Charlie's Shoes;... more

Hank Thompson and his brilliant band the Brazos Valley Boys forged a synthesis of honky-tonk and Western Swing that still can be heard in country music today! All of which makes the prior... more

He's the biggest singer this music ever knew. You booked him and you didn't worry about crowds. For drawing power in the South, it was Roy Acuff, then God.' (Hank Williams) Roy Acuff's recordings... more

Bear Family already wowed collectors with "The Bristol Sessions" and "The Johnson City Sessions." Now, the venerable German label completes its sweeping survey of '20s/early-'30s East Tennessee... more

More adventuresome country from one of the great Nashville songwriters! Includes gospel, standards, blues, even work with Los Indios Tabajaras plus hits like Yes, I'm Hurting; Oh Such a Stranger, and... more

Jimmy seemed destined for a successful career as a songwriter when his third single, Tennessee Border, became a hit for four country stars including Red Foley and Tennessee Ernie Ford (and was... more

Floyd's complete recordings from 1936 to 1962! That includes his early work with the Blue Ridge Playboys, his 1936–41 Decca sides, the nine (1936–45) classic years with Columbia, his 1958 album for... more

Everything the Osbornes recorded from 1956–1968, all their MGM and Decca recordings from the period as well as the ultra-rare RCA Camden album they recorded as the Bluegrass Banjo Pickers, for a... more

This onetime polka dance-band leader went on to record with vocalist Redd Stewart some of the best-known country songs (Slow Poke; Tennessee Waltz; Bonaparte's Retreat, etc.) of the '40s and '50s,... 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

Some of Roy's early Columbia recordings are out here in the States, but this Bear Family set's the only place in the world you'll find his '50s recordings for Capitol, Decca and MGM. 57 tracks with a... more

May we recommend Mr. Charlie Walker, as true a honky-tonker as ever sang a note? And this gorgeous 5-CD, 154-track set from Bear Family has just about every note, from his earliest recordings in 1952... more

His complete Decca recordings from 1936 to 1947 (and the never-reissued World transcriptions), more than 200 songs on 8 CDs that chronicle his emergence as one of country's first superstars. Along... 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

Cliff Bruner got his start fiddlin' for Milton Brown, then went on to form the Texas Wanderers, a great Western swingin' outfit that featured Moon Mullican and Link Davis among others. This 123-track... more

He may have been the elder statesman of bluegrass, but he still was making great music in the '70s, and his band always had the best young talent around. This 4-CD, lavishly annotated set includes... more

Sort of a country teen idol, Bobby Helms scored repeatedly on the charts during the years that this Bear Family 2-CD set examines in detail. 56 tracks (gulp!), including all the hits—"My Special... 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