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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 his early years, bringing you everything he recorded from 1959–76, from his debut rockabilly single to his hard-country cuts of the ’60s to his ’70s outlaw era. You get his original Canadian hits plus many performances issued for the first time since their original vinyl release: Gonna Have a Party; Hitch Hikin’; Mother, Love and Country; The Long Green Line; Countryfied; Rockin’ Baby; Strangers Again; Cross Country; Rise ’n’ Shine; Lonesome City; The Final Hour; One More Pretty Girl; Goin’ Home Again; Half a Jug of Wine; Country Wine; One More Day Away; Cold Grey Winds of Autumn; My Heart Doesn’t Sing; A Whole Lot Different, and all the rest of the early best by this Canadian Country Hall of Famer!