Bonnie Guitar Early Years: The Singles & Albums Collection 1951-62 She made excellent records across the pop and country spectrum. Bonnie Guitar was an unusual personality in the world of pop music,... more

Rose Maddox - Sing A Little Song Of Heartache: The Solo Singles 1953-62 - Rose Maddox was a country singer, songwriter and fiddle player from Alabama, whose family migrated to California in the... more

Tommy Collins - The Singles & Albums Collection 1951-60 - Tommy Collins was a country singer, songwriter and guitarist who was instrumental in creating the Bakersfield sound during the 1950s and... more

Eddie Dean was a singer and movie actor, who specialised in cowboy songs, and was regarded by luminaries of the genre like Roy Rogers and Gene Autry as absolutely the finest of all the cowboy... more

Johnny Bond was a country singer, guitarist and songwriter, born in Oklahoma, who also appeared in more than 40 western movies during the later heyday of the genre in the 1940s and into the '50s, and... more

The Carter Family are among the most important artists in the entire history of popular music. They were pioneers in writing and recording folk and country music for the commercial market, and their... more

Elton Britt was a country singer, songwriter and guitarist who was born in 1913, and had a recording career which began in the early 1930s and spanned more than three decades, as he adapted his... more

Arthur Smith was a country guitarist, banjoist, composer and record producer, who was also a popular radio and TV host, with The Arthur Smith Show becoming the first nationally-syndicated country... more

Taking their name from the landmark 1912 western novel by Zane Grey "Riders Of The Purple Sage", Foy Willing And The Riders Of The Purple Sage were a country group who combined recording and... more

As his name implies, Texas Jim Robertson was a native of the Lone Star State, but made his start singing on radio in his teens while based in North Carolina and he subsequently moved to New York with... more

Husband and wife duo Wilma Lee and Stoney Cooper, who performed and recorded through most of their career with their group The Clinch Mountain Clan, had their roots in the gospel, folk and hillbilly... more

Homer and Jethro were a country duo, real names Henry Haynes and Kenneth Burns, with their musical roots in hillbilly and bluegrass, who worked together on radio in the 1930s and reunited after... more

Tex Ritter was one of the first "singing cowboys", a singer and actor who started out singing on radio in Texas in the 1920s, soon moving to New York to appear on radio and on Broadway. He made his... more

Known as "The Tall Texan", Billy Walker was a country singer who made his first records in 1949 and had his debut hit in 1954, going on to build a chart career that lasted over three decades, as he... more

Rex Allen was one of the later era of Singing Cowboys, whose career encompassed not only being a recording artist but also having a high profile as a star of western movies and TV series, and later... more

The US country charts were for many years in the post-war era the exclusive domain of male artists and it was not until Kitty Wells in 1952, soon followed by Jean Shepard in 1953, that a female... more

The Sons of the Pioneers were one of the USA's earliest western singing groups, and the primary originators of what might be called "cowboy country", their songs, vocal harmonies and instrumental... more

Johnny Fuller, born in Mississippi in 1929, was nevertheless primarily associated with California blues, although his recordings over the years covered a remarkable range of musical bases within the... more

Guitarist and mandolinist Lester Flatt and banjo player Earl Scruggs were among the leading exponents of bluegrass music in the post-war era. Scruggs is famous for developing the three-finger style... more

Everyone from Faron Young ("Everytime I'm Kissing You") to Andy Williams ("Lonely Street") to Debbie Reynolds ("Am I That Easy to Forget") to Johnnie & Jack ("Stop the World") scored smashes with... more

Along with Kitty Wells and Jean Shepard, Goldie Hill was one of country music's first female trailblazers, breaking through with solo hits in the early '50s. This 56-track celebration of "The Golden... more

This honky-tonk hero enjoyed two hit periods: the mid-'50s on Decca and then from 1964–80 on Starday, Chart and Gusto. These 56 tracks take us to the top: his MGM and Decca A- and B-sides from '49 to... more

Starting off as a rockabilly singer and DJ in Kentucky, Jimmie Skinner reeled off a string of hits from the late '40s to early '60s—hits that saw him stick to his down-home country guns even as the... more

This release continues the series of 4-CD sets which comprises selected annual collections of the biggest US country hits of each year, and fills in a gap in the series at the start of the 1960s.... more

The Morgan Brothers' sister and the star vocalist of Frank Devol's band started scoring her own hits in '54. Later, Morgan became a game-show fixture, but this 60-track set spotlights her... more