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Reprise Please Baby: The Warner Bros. Years
:Album Description:From his '86 multiplatinum debut Guitars, Cadillacs, Etc., Etc. through '01s South Of Heaven, West Of Hell, this expansive 4-CD boxed set culls material from Yoakam's entire Warner Bros. career. Presents 87 tracks circa 1981-2002, encompassing singles, album, cuts, previously unissued material, rarities, and soundtrack selections. Contains 3 brand new recordings (exclusively available to this set): 'Sittin' Pretty,' 'Louisville,' and 'Mercury Blues.' Includes a full disc comprised of nothing but previously unreleased material, including rare early demos from 1981, and live gems from various venues spanning nearly a decade, including renditions of ...
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The Patsy Cline Collection
: essential recording:The Country Music Foundation offers 104 songs--more than four hours of music--even though Patsy Cline died at 30 after less than a decade of recording. Given the wavering quality of her later string-laden work, four CDs might be excessive, but this set comprehensively follows Cline from upstart country boomer to pop diva. She could take charge of a song from day one, as the two 1954 radio transcriptions prove. On her vibrant late-1950s work, she moves from honky-tonk and rockabilly to soft ballads in commanding fashion. 'Walkin After Midnight,' her first ...
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Take Me Back to Tulsa
:Album Description:UK budget-price box-set featuring the pioneer of western swing, he played blues, rags, stomps, ballads and jazz in a style that became much imitated. 119 tracks and including a 52 page illustrated booklet. Four standard jewel cases housed in a slipcase. 2001.
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The Complete Sun Recordings 1955-1958
:Album Description:Time Life is proud to present a complete and unique edition of Johnny Cash's Sun recordings. Johnny came to Sun in 1955 with a sound that he neither altered nor bettered. During his three years there he wrote and recorded many of his best-known songs, songs like 'I Walk The Line' and 'Folsom Prison Blues', which he would sing for the remainder of his long, impressive career. What you'll find on Johnny Cash: The Complete Sun Recordings 1955-58 is one version of every song that Johnny Cash recorded at Sun, usually in ...
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Volume 2: 1935-1941
:Album Description:Time Life is proud to present a complete and unique edition of Johnny Cash's Sun recordings. Johnny came to Sun in 1955 with a sound that he neither altered nor bettered. During his three years there he wrote and recorded many of his best-known songs, songs like 'I Walk The Line' and 'Folsom Prison Blues', which he would sing for the remainder of his long, impressive career. What you'll find on Johnny Cash: The Complete Sun Recordings 1955-58 is one version of every song that Johnny Cash recorded at Sun, usually in ...
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King of Country Music
:Album Description:Time Life is proud to present a complete and unique edition of Johnny Cash's Sun recordings. Johnny came to Sun in 1955 with a sound that he neither altered nor bettered. During his three years there he wrote and recorded many of his best-known songs, songs like 'I Walk The Line' and 'Folsom Prison Blues', which he would sing for the remainder of his long, impressive career. What you'll find on Johnny Cash: The Complete Sun Recordings 1955-58 is one version of every song that Johnny Cash recorded at Sun, usually in ...
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The Music of Bill Monroe
: essential recording:It's the rare artist who virtually invents a genre single-handedly, and there's no artist in any genre whose work has remained as dominant a force as Bill Monroe. The songs here not only define bluegrass, they remain the core of any bluegrass band's repertoire. Monroe added a dose of sophistication to traditional hillbilly music--intricate group harmonies, expert musicianship--and he rehearsed his Blue Grass Boys for hours on end. MCA's lavish 4 CD set covers 60 years and 98 songs, adding detailed notes and anecdotes. Beginning with 1936 duets with brother Charlie, ...
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Portraits
: :Compared to her sometime singing partner Dolly Parton, Emmylou Harris is not an especially distinctive singer or songwriter. She lacks the raw talent to match the towering high points of Parton's career, but at the same time Harris has managed to avoid the embarrassing lapses that have plagued Parton. Harris has exhibited a deep understanding of what makes the best country music endure and a stubborn refusal to accept anything less. You can comb through her 20 albums and never find an embarrassingly corny novelty number, a shamelessly maudlin weeper, or a less-than-flawless ...
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Legacy
:Album Description:A revealing and entertaining portrait of a man who, for more than half a century, has been a force in the creation, interpretation and preservation of American roots music. This collector's edition contains three CD's of newly recorded conversation and song, as well as a 72-page companion book filled with historical photos, stories and interviews from Doc Watson and his longtime friend and collaborator, David Holt. Together they pass on to you Doc's inspiring life story and generous musical legacy.
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The Definitive Collection 1947-1966
:Album Description:On the 60th anniversary of their first studio recording, bluegrass legends the Stanley Brothers are being commemorated with The Stanley Brothers: The Definitive Collection (1947-1966). Released to stores on February 27, 2007, just two days after Ralph's 80th birthday, it is the first comprehensive box set to chronicle their entire career. The Definitive Collection comes at a time when bluegrass is in the midst of a surge in popularity, started by the hit film and soundtrack O Brother, Where Art Thou? and continuing on with artists such as Dolly Parton, Alison Krauss, ...
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