VA - Time Life - Classic Country Series (10 SET 20CD , 1997-2000/FLAC)

 

Another in the seemingly endless parade of country series from Time-Life

Classic Country 1941-1951 (R808-20 2000) 01:21:52

Classic Country 1950-1959 (R808-03 1998) 01:17:25

Classic Country 1960-1964 (R808-01 1997) 01:17:32

Classic Country 1965-1969 (R808-02 1998) 01:21:15

Classic Country 1970-1974 (R808-04 1998) 01:23:36

Classic Country 1975-1979 (R808-05 1998) 01:28:23

Classic Country Golden '40s (R808-09 1999) 01:22:02

Classic Country Golden '50s (R808-06 1998) 01:15:47

Classic Country Golden '60s (R808-07 1998) 01:20:52

Classic Country Golden '70s (R808-08 1998) 01:29:34

Sam Bush discography [1985-2016]

 

Charles Samuel "Sam" Bush (born April 13, 1952) is an American bluegrass mandolin player considered an originator of the Newgrass style. Officially designated "The Father of Newgrass" by Kentucky's legislature, this mandolin innovator wed bluegrass to jazz improvisation.

VA - Country Party Songs (2 CD, 2018/FLAC)

 

George Jones - She Thinks I Still Care (5 CD, 2007/FLAC)

The complete George Jones United Artists recordings from 1962 to '64, 150 songs compiled in one package for the first time ever.

Compiles every surviving title including six previously unissued tracks and his geatest hits from the era: She Thinks I Still Care, You Comb Her Hair, A Girl I Used To Know, She Once Lived Here and The Race Is On along with lesser-known George Jones gems including Open Pit Mine and Jones's overlooked original composition In The Shadow Of A Lie. Features his highly regarded tribute albums to Little Jimmy Dickens, Hank Williams, Bob Wills along with 'George Jones Sings The Hits Of His Country Cousins' the gospel package 'Homecoming In Heaven' and 'The Best Of George Jones'.

Includes his complete UA duet recordings with Melba Montgomery including their admired 'Bluegrass Hootenanny' album, Plus a full bio covering the UA years and rare photos.

George Jones was coming off a successful Mercury Records contract when his producer Pappy Daily took him to United Artists Records in 1962. Instantly, he became UA's top country star and got off to a powerful start with Dickey Lee's ballad She Thinks I Still Care, an award-winning performance at the time, a country music standard today. Over the next two and a half years, Jones recorded originals along with songs written by some of Nashville's greatest, among them Jack Clement (Not What I Had In Mind), Justin Tubb (Big Fool Of The Year), Hank Cochran and Harlan Howard (You Comb Her Hair) and Freddie Hart (My Tears Are Overdue).

Even then, George Jones' peers began embracing his still-evolving singing style, rooted in his admiration for both Roy Acuff and Hank Williams, as a vocal Gold Standard. At UA, that style continued developing while at the same time he expanded his scope by teaming with the truly great female duet partner: Melba Montgomery. Together, they created an amazing, even hypnotic traditional vocal synergy on hits including We Must Have Been Out Of Our Minds and to this day, Jones considers his work with Melba his best work with a female singer. On tour, his antics still centered around his legendary boozing and hell-raising yet George Jones's studio output for UA was amazingly consistent, the accompaniment traditional though the Jordanaires frequently appeared on various UA sessions.

Along with revealing the complete scope of George Jones's two and a half years, the collection also includes rare photos and extensive, detailed liner notes by Rich Kienzle including comments from George Jones, Montgomery and the late Buck Owens. 

VA - Pure...Country (4 CD, 2010/FLAC)

 

Waylon Jennings - Original Album Classics (5 CD, 2013/FLAC)

 

Disc 1 - Lonesome, On'ry And Mean

Disc 2 - This Time

Disc 3 - The Ramblin' Man

Disc 4 - Ol' Waylon

Disc 5 - Waylon & Willie

Ernest Tubb - Walking the Floor Over You (8 CD, 1996)

 

Walking the Floor Over You is a box set of Ernest Tubb's early recordings, released in 1996. It is an eight-CD box set and was released in 1996. It contains 208 songs, many of them are previously unissued on LP or CD. The set includes extensive liner notes, session notes and photographs.

The collection covers Tubb's recordings from 1936 until early 1947. It ranges from Tubb accompanied only by his guitar to the developing of the roots of honkey tonk music. 

VA - American Roots Music [4 CD, 2001]

 

The successes of the breakthrough soundtrack from the film O Brother Where Art Thou? and the in-depth PBS television series Ken Burns' Jazz seem to have combined in the 2001 production of Palm Pictures' four-part TV series American Roots Music. The series touches on the development of the distinctly American styles of traditional folk, country, blues, gospel, Western swing, bluegrass, cajun, zydeco, Tejano, and Native American music. Corresponding with the television event, Palm has released a four-CD box set soundtrack with a 48-page booklet covering the styles covered during the show. Much like a broadened version of the amazing Washington Square Memoirs: The Great Urban Folk Boom, 1950-1970 CD set, American Roots Music has pulled together an impressive list of performers, including the Carter Family, Jimmie Rodgers, Bill Monroe, B.B. King, Hank Williams, Robert Johnson, Son House, Woody Guthrie, Leadbelly, the Staple Singers, Clifton Chenier, Flaco Jimenez, and Bob Dylan. The depth of the track selection is impressive, as is the breadth of the performers chosen. The producers have chosen to include some studio recordings, and some audio tracks taken from the film archives, making for a somewhat uneven sound quality. While the previously unreleased nature of these select tracks will appeal to collectors and die-hard fans, those just exploring these styles might be turned off by the rough quality of these performances. The discs span more than eight decades of music, acting as a good overview of these genres for new listeners, while Americana enthusiasts will view it as another great collection of the most influential American roots artists in music history.

Johnny Cash - Original Album Classics (5 CD, 2015/FLAC)

 

•  The Fabulous Johnny Cash
•  Songs Of Our Soil
•  Hymns By Johnny Cash
•  Ride This Train
•  Orange Blossom Special

VA - Stars Of American Anthems [60 American Classics] (3 CD, 2017/FLAC)

 There are many incredible music genres that originated in the great land of America. Rock ’n’ Roll, Blues, Country, Gospel, the list goes on. Stars Of American Anthems gathers many of these leading genres & delivers 60 American timeless classics by iconic artists that remain influential in today’s popular music.

The great names include Chuck Berry, Roy Orbison, Bill Haley, Little Richard, Willie Nelson, Patsy Cline, Ray Charles, The Everly Brothers, Ike & Tina Turner plus many more celebrated legends.

VA - Roots Of Rock & Roll (1927 - 1952) Vol.1-8 [16 CD, 1996-2003]

  

Legend would have it that Rock'N'Roll was born in Memphis in 1954 when a young truck-driver by the name Elvis Presley opted to sing "Black Blues" his way. A legend that drastically over-simplifies reality, however, for the roots of Rock'N'Roll are already to be found in the early recordings of Blues, Jazz and Country music of the mid-1920. This collection, created by Gérard Herzhaft, shows that the Rock 'n' Roll was not born with Bill Haley and Elvis Presley but before, the fusion of Rhythm and Blues, Western Swing, Country, Gospel - or the whole of popular music from the early twentieth century. This collection has become indispensable, because the history of interbreeding reveals the crystallization and the formation of gender identity as the history of amplified music...

Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs - Flatt & Scruggs 1964-1969, plus (6 CD, 1995/FLAC)

 

The final five years of the team of Flatt & Scruggs is documented on the six-CD Bear Family set 1964-1969, Plus. Their final six recordings together are on a Lester Flatt box set on the same label (Flatt on Victor Plus More, Bear Family 15975). Though the pair never referred to themselves as bluegrass musicians -- because of its association with their mentor, Bill Monroe -- they had a difficult time telling the ever-increasing flood of international fans just what it was they did. Certainly it was folk music, but not the folk music of the folk revival of the late '50s and early '60s, and it was country music, though not what Owen Bradley and Chet Atkins was pushing through Nashville at the time, and while a lot of the music was rooted in blues and gospel, it couldn't be called that either.

Brooks & Dunn – Original Album Classics (5 CD, 2013/FLAC)

 

• 1991 • Brand New Man
• 1993 • Hard Workin' Man
• 1994 • Waitin' On Sundown
• 1996 • Borderline
• 1998 • If You See Her

VA - Pure... Singer/Songwriter (4 CD, 2011/FLAC)

 

Willie Nelson - Nashville Was the Roughest (8 CD, 1998)

 

Willie Nelson's '60s recordings for RCA have long been the subject of critical disdain due to the supposed ill fit between Nelson's idiosyncratic style and the conventions of the Nashville sound era. In fact, Nelson's RCA material is largely of high quality, his modest hits from this period were often excellent, and his uniqueness comes through no matter how syrupy the orchestration (which isn't always the case -- the production on many of these tracks is quite spare). This deluxe eight-CD box set compiles everything Nelson recorded during his eight years with RCA, including a complete live set, unreleased recordings, rough takes of songs that would later surface on his A&M albums, and his few early-'60s recordings for Monument. Nelson covers Western swing, pop-country, ballads, and versions of classic country songs in minimalist fashion with his jazzy phrasing fully developed. In fact, those who have been frightened away from these recordings by critics may be surprised by how little they differ from his '70s sound. Fans will delight over the LP-sized hardback book that accompanies this set and the opportunity to review a neglected episode in the Willie saga. 

VA - Golden International Evergreens (10 CD, 2013)

 200 of the best known and best loved evergreens of Pop, Country and R&B are collected on this 10-CD box set, many of which topped the charts. Stars of the fabulous Fifties rub shoulders with one another: Elvis Presley, Jim Reeves, Nat "King" Cole, Buddy Holly, Paul Anka, Connie Francis, Doris Day, Frank Sinatra, Pat Boone, The Andrews Sisters, The Drifters, Glenn Miller and many more.

Alabama - Original Album Classics (5 CD, 2013/FLAC)

 

1980 - My Home's In Alabama 

1981 - Feels So Right 

1982 - Mountain Music 

1983 - The Closer You Get... 

1984 - Roll On 

VA- American Road Trip [3 CD, 2017]

 

VA - Th'is Country - Country Stars [3 CD, 2011]

 

Elvis Presley - The Complete Elvis Presley Masters (30 CD, 2010)

 

THE COMPLETE ELVIS PRESLEY MASTERS is a triumph of musicology: 711 masters in the order in which they were recorded. Every song Elvis recorded for release during his lifetime in a single unique collection, mastered from the original analog master tapes where available using 24-bit technology for greater sonic resolution and dynamics. Also included are 103 rarities: additional masters, alternate takes, session outtakes, demos, rehearsals, live performances and radio recordings. Over 35 hours of music. This is the definitive collection – a magnificent audio chronicle of the inspiration, pain and genius that make Elvis the world’s most enduring musical and cultural icon.