Various Artists - Blissed-Out Birth of Country Rock / Various - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

A new series from Bear Family chronicling one of the most important musical developments of the rock era! Volumes two include the Byrds, Flying Burrito Brothers, Bob Dylan, Linda Ronstadt, and many more! Extensively annotated and profusely illustrated! Album Tracks 1. Byrds, the - I Wonder If I'd Care As Much (#2) 2. Byrds, the - Drug Store Truck Driving Man 3. Flying Burrito Brothers - Christineâ's Tune 4. Sahm, Doug - Sir Douglas Quintet / Texas Me 5. Campbell, Glen - Galveston 6. Dylan, Bob - Lay, Lady Lay 7. Band, the - the Night They Drove Old Dixie Down 8. Flying Burrito Brothers - Wheels 9. Corvettes - Back Home Girl 10. Dillard & Clark - Through the Morning, Through the Night 11. Owens, Buck - Who's Gonna Mow Your Grass 12. Poco - Pickin' Up the Pieces 13. Sahm, Doug - Sir Douglas Quintet / at the Crossroads 14. Band, the - Up on Cripple Creek 15. Flying Burrito Brothers - Sin City 16. Corvettes - Level Your Senses 17. Ronstadt, Linda - Silver Threads and Golden Needles 18. Flying Burrito Brothers - Hot Burrito #1 19. Presley, Elvis - I'm Movin' on 20. Sanland Brothers - Vaccination for the Blues 21. Poco - Make Me Smile 22. Ronstadt, Linda - We Need a Whole Lot More Jesus (And a Lot Less 23. Zandt, Townes Van - Lungs 24. Rogers, Kenny & the First Edition - Ruby (Don't Take Your Love to

This continues the series which we re-established a couple of years ago and which comprises selected annual collections of the biggest US country hits of each year. This great value100-track 4-CD collection goes back to the start of the 1950s, when the relevant Billboard chart was called the Best Selling Retail Folk (Country & Western) Records, and apart from a few weeks at the start of the year, when there was a Top 15, was restricted to a published Top 10. The collection comprises many of the records which appeared in the chart during the year. Although there were many records which harked back to the styles of traditional hillbilly and western swing music, many of the artists featured were those who had established themselves during the late 1940s and would enjoy prolific hit-making careers during the '50s until the business changed significantly in the wake of the rock 'n' roll explosion. Artists like Hank Williams, Eddy Arnold, Red Foley, Ernest Tubb and Tennessee Ernie Ford are therefore well represented along with many artists whose musical legacy is less well-known these days, as well as pop artists like Margaret Whiting and Kay Starr making forays into the genre through duets with country stars, which makes it a fascinating snapshot of the business as a new decade dawned. With an in-depth 10,000+ word booklet with background notes on every record, it gives a solid overview of the most popular country music of the year. Album Tracks 1. Margaret Whiting & Jimmy Wakely - Slipping Around 2. Mule Train (Tennessee Ernie Ford); 3. Anticipation Blues (Tennessee Ernie Ford); 4. C - H 5. I'll Never Slip Around Again (Margaret Whiting & Jimmy Wakely); 6. Hank Williams - My Bucket's Got a Hole in It 7. Eddy Arnold - Will Santa Come to Shanty Town 8. Ernest Tubb - White Christmas 9. Gene Autry - Here Comes Santa Claus 10. Hank Williams -

From the people who brought you 'Hillbillies In Hell'... Blood, Sweat and Tears. 32 timeless tales of clanging Hammers and pounding Shovels - from wry, dry working-stiff diatribes to bare-chested exclamations - Birth / Work / Death maps the human work experience from anger to joy, poverty to riches. From the muck-crusted mines to late-night jukeboxes - backwoods outsiders and Nashville icons alike waxed odes to the entwined necessities of Work and Money, Status and Competition, Survival and Servitude. Harrowing laments of dank deaths underground, fevered hymns to Mammon, snide ripostes to debt-bondage and exuberant celebrations of family and sustenance. Most originally waxed on private press labels and distributed in tiny amounts, these town criers and tavern-bound troubadours sing of golden highways, slothful byways, factory-floor drudgery and fallow, heartbreaking fields. Years in the making - 'Birth / Work / Death' presents calloused anthems and bloody ballads from dusty LPs and long forgotten 45s. All for your lunch-hour listening pleasure. Album Tracks 1. Bill Carter - By the Sweat of My Brow 2. Bobby Barnett - Workin' Man 3. Tex Ritter - the Workingman's Prayer 4. Mr. Connie Dycus - Dark As a Dungeon 5. Dave Dudley - Workin' Hands 6. Eddie Noack - Cotton Mill 7. The Westport Kids - You Kain't Take It with You 8. Arlie Duff - Money Hungry 9. Tex Williams - Money 10. Tennessee Ernie Ford - Sixteen Tons '65 11. Charlie Gore - Black Diamond 12. Howard Vokes - the Miner 13. The Wray Brothers - Down in the Mine 14. George Davis - Little Lump of Coal 15. Doc Williams - Don't Want to Work 16. David Hiser - on Strike 17. Buddy Durham - Sixteen Tons 18. Sunshine Boys Quartet - Checking Up on My Payments 19. Slim Willet - Come Sundown 20. Dewitt Lee - Poor Man 21. Rusty Dunn with Wayne Roberts & the Countrymen - Production