Box Sets Country

	Volume 2: 1935-1941 by: The Carter Family
	The Essential George Jones: The Spirit of Country by: George Jones :Album Description:Sub-titled 'The Spirit Of Country' this exclusive 44 track collection spans the country great's entire hit and award filled career. The honky tonk legend's tumultuous personal life is in evidence here in songs like, 'We Can Make It', 'These Days (I Barely Get By), 'Why Baby Why' (mono), 'She Thinks I Still Care' and of course his classic duets with Tammy Wynette. Additional artists include James Taylor, Johnny Paycheck, Ray Charles, Chet Atkins, Melba Montgomery and Merle Haggard. 1998 release. Slimline double jewel case. essential recording:The quarter drops, and ...
	Portraits by: Emmylou Harris : :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 ...
	Swinging Hollywood Hillbilly Cowboys by: Various Artists : :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 ...
	The Essential Johnny Cash 1955-1983 by: Johnny Cash : essential recording:The art of Johnny Cash is as traditional and innovative, as expansive, as the 20th century itself--so much so that The Man in Black now stands as an honest-to-God American icon, a living link to the Carter Family and the very origins of modern country music some 70 years ago. His own repertoire has touched upon just about every significant development in the field ever since, and this three-CD, 75-song box set gives an impressive overview of just about all of it: the rockabilly-boogie singles for Sun in the ...
	Texas Troubadour by: Townes Van Zandt :Album Description:4 CDs in a hard-back digi-book, including all of his 60's & 70's recordings for Poppy & Tomato labels, plus eight live songs from 1973. The set's 52 page, lavishly illustrated, color booklet includes a detailed biography of the Texas troubadour, as well as a track-by-track commentary. 2001.
	Texas Troubadour by: Ernest Tubb :Album Description:100 tracks are included in the budget priced 4 CD box, which comes with a 48-page illustrated booklet bearing all the proper hallmarks. Four standard jewel cases housed in cardboard slipbox. Proper. 2003.
	Frettin' Fingers: The Lightning Guitar of Jimmy Bryant by: Jimmy Bryant :Album Description:Here at last is the ultimate 3-CD box set that illumi-nates guitarist Jimmy Bryant’s fretboard genius once and for all, spotlighting the dizzying technique, the flu-ent lines and the electrifying flights of improvisation that have made Bryant a legend with guitar cognoscenti everywhere. To say Jimmy Bryant was as important to country-guitar picking as Charlie Parker was to bebop is a tribute to both legends. This deluxe-edition, 75-track, career-spanning collection is loaded with the gravity-defying, Capitol-era duets of Bryant and Speedy West, the never-reissued Bryant solo material from the Imperial ...
	The Vanguard Years by: Doc Watson : :Traveling into the Carolina hills to record old-time banjoist Clarence Ashley, folklorist Ralph Rinzler happened across a young, guitar-playing neighbor named Arthel 'Doc' Watson, and folk and bluegrass music were changed forever. This four-disc set shows Watson at the height of his powers, from his blazing 1964 original Vanguard album to nine numbers recorded live at the Newport Folk Festival. There's plenty of clean, lightning-quick flatpicking here, of course, but The Vanguard Years also showcases Watson's not inconsiderable skills on the five-string banjo and rack harmonica as well as his warm ...
	Bluegrass: Independent Label Sides 1951-1954 by: Various Artists : :Traveling into the Carolina hills to record old-time banjoist Clarence Ashley, folklorist Ralph Rinzler happened across a young, guitar-playing neighbor named Arthel 'Doc' Watson, and folk and bluegrass music were changed forever. This four-disc set shows Watson at the height of his powers, from his blazing 1964 original Vanguard album to nine numbers recorded live at the Newport Folk Festival. There's plenty of clean, lightning-quick flatpicking here, of course, but The Vanguard Years also showcases Watson's not inconsiderable skills on the five-string banjo and rack harmonica as well as his warm ...