Box Sets Country

	Classic Cuts, Vol. 2: 1924-38 by: Uncle Dave Macon
	Come Along and Ride This Train by: Johnny Cash :Album Description:Johnny Cash was one of the first to explore the idea of the concept album in country music. This set brings together all of his uniquely American albums, Ride This Train, Blood Sweat & Tears, Mean As Hell, Ballads of the True West, Bitter Tears, America: A 200 Year Salute, From Sea to Shining Sea, and The Rambler. Bob Allen writes, 'This collection eloquently embodies one man's love, celebration, curiosity, anguish, and personal vision of his native land.'
	Mountain Gospel by: Various Artists :Album Description:Johnny Cash was one of the first to explore the idea of the concept album in country music. This set brings together all of his uniquely American albums, Ride This Train, Blood Sweat & Tears, Mean As Hell, Ballads of the True West, Bitter Tears, America: A 200 Year Salute, From Sea to Shining Sea, and The Rambler. Bob Allen writes, 'This collection eloquently embodies one man's love, celebration, curiosity, anguish, and personal vision of his native land.'
	From the Vaults: Decca Country Classics by: Various Artists : :Decca was a fairly wide-ranging label whose trademark sound was a strain of commercially palpable hillbilly pop perfected by producer (and, beginning in 1958, label head) Owen Bradley. These four discs offer an assortment of stars (Patsy Cline, Buddy Holly, Bill Monroe, Loretta Lynn), subordinates, and the uncelebrated. The latter, in fact, are what makes this box stand out. A great deal of the fun comes from antiquated time pieces like Johnny Wright's 'Hello Vietnam' ('I hope the world will come to learn/That fires we ...
	Sugar Hill Records: A Retrospective by: Various Artists :Album Description:'Barry Poss was to contemporary, roots-based music in the last quarter of the twentieth century what Ahmet Ertegun and the Chesses and Phillips were to pop music a quarter-century earlier—the founder of a quality music label, a label that consumers came to trust on its own merits. Most of his bicentennial competitors have fallen away, but Poss and Sugar Hill continue to thrive.' --Jay Orr, Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum, from the box set liner notesFor 25 years and counting, Sugar Hill ...
	Songs of the Prairie by: The Sons of the Pioneers :Album Description:'Barry Poss was to contemporary, roots-based music in the last quarter of the twentieth century what Ahmet Ertegun and the Chesses and Phillips were to pop music a quarter-century earlier—the founder of a quality music label, a label that consumers came to trust on its own merits. Most of his bicentennial competitors have fallen away, but Poss and Sugar Hill continue to thrive.' --Jay Orr, Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum, from the box set liner notesFor 25 years and counting, Sugar Hill ...
	Complete 1950s Television Recordings by: Gene Autry :Album Description:'Barry Poss was to contemporary, roots-based music in the last quarter of the twentieth century what Ahmet Ertegun and the Chesses and Phillips were to pop music a quarter-century earlier—the founder of a quality music label, a label that consumers came to trust on its own merits. Most of his bicentennial competitors have fallen away, but Poss and Sugar Hill continue to thrive.' --Jay Orr, Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum, from the box set liner notesFor 25 years and counting, Sugar Hill ...
	Mr. Guitar: The Complete Recordings 1955-1960 by: Chet Atkins :Album Description:7 CD box set plus book. Complete recordings 1955-1960. In a career that stretched over a half century, master guitarist Chet Atkins recorded nearly one hundred albums under his own name. Many consider the albums included here, made between 1955 and 1960, as his definitive work.
	I Heard It on NPR: Down to the Roots/Singers, Songs & Sessions/One World Many Voices by: Various Artists :Album Description:7 CD box set plus book. Complete recordings 1955-1960. In a career that stretched over a half century, master guitarist Chet Atkins recorded nearly one hundred albums under his own name. Many consider the albums included here, made between 1955 and 1960, as his definitive work.
	Close Harmony by: The Louvin Brothers : :Of all the great harmonies in country music, the greatest belong to Ira and Charlie Louvin. Born three years apart on a red-clay Alabama farm, the Louvin Brothers took the sisterly harmonies of the Carter Family and the brotherly tightness of the Monroe and Callahan brothers to new, chilling heights. They redefined duo harmony by interweaving and switching tenor and alto parts, finding fresh, undiscovered colors along the way. The German label Bear Family has compiled an unprecedented history of the Louvins, the only thorough ...