FOOTPRINTS: A IIIRD

CROWD FAVORITES is a collection of the most- requested songs from Claire Lynch's impressively rich repertoire. Features 4 new recordings, plus 10 classics from her Rounder Catalog form an ideal introduction to one of acoustic's most innovative artists.

Public Cowboy #1: A Centennial Salute To The Music Of Gene A

ECHOES OF THE MOUNTAINS

THIRTIETH ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL

Old Time Banjo Festival

STEPPIN' IN THE BOILER HOUSE is the second solo album from Mark Schatz. Featuring his own traditionally innovative sound and clawhammer style of banjo playing, STEPPIN' combines new melodies with the heart and soul of old tunes. It blends the grit of swing of an old time string band with the drive and precision of contemporary bluegrass.

LIVE AT NEWBURYPORT FIREHOUSE

JEANNIE KENDALL

Tracks: "Wicked Twisted Road," "Break My Heart Tonight Stick Around," "Rider in the Rain," "Set Me Free" and more.

At different times critics have called Jerry the Charlie Parker and the Jimi Hendrix of the resophonic guitar. In addition to being widely acknowledged as America's foremost master of the instrument, Douglas is a freewheeling, forward-thinking recording artist whose output draws upon a bottomless well of musical inspiration, incorporating of bluegrass, country, rock, jazz, blues and Celtic into his distinctive musical vision.

Beyond The Shadows

Hammered Dulcimer: Retrospective

Lizard Vision

Paint Me On Velvet

Chuckin' The Frizz

Adams County Banjo

Live At The Ragged Edge

Letters From My Father

Hand Hewn

ESSENTIAL PATRIOTIC COLLECTION / VARIOUS

This release continues the series of 4-CD sets which comprises selected annual collections of the biggest US country hits of each year. This great-value 110-track collection covers the year of 1962, during which time Billboard published a Top 30 which changed it's name during the year from Hot C&W Sides to Hot Country Singles, and it comprises every record which appeared in the Top 15 of that chart during the year. Despite the fact that the pop landscape had been transformed over preceding years by rock 'n' roll and it's aftermath, and was about to undergo another upheaval with the British Invasion, the charts still had a familiar look about them for country fans, with many traditional established country stars well-represented, like Webb Pierce, Porter Wagoner, Kitty Wells and Hank Snow, although the smoother Nashville sound certainly characterised many of the hits and there was more than a smattering of crossover artists who enjoyed big crossover hits, not least Leroy Van Dyke's long-running No. 1 "Walk On By". Other big winners during the year with multiple hits were George Jones, Patsy Cline, Marty Robbins, Jimmy Dean, Jim Reeves, and there were some hot new kids on the block like Buck Owens, Willie Nelson and Johnny Tillotson, along with some collectable obscurities among the one-hit wonders. It's a fascinating and entertaining musical snapshot of the country scene during a dynamic era, and with an in-depth 12,000+ word booklet with background notes on every record, it gives a solid overview of the most popular country music of the yea

This release continues the series which we re-established last year with a 4-CD set of "The Greatest Country Hits of 1958" and which comprises selected annual collections of the biggest US country hits of each year. This great-value 116-track collection follows on from that 1958 anthology, and includes every record that appeared in the Top 20 of the Billboard country charts during 1959, excluding those records which had already made the Top 20 and which therefore appeared in the 1958 set (there was insufficient space to include them again in this collection). The country chart had been rationalised in October 1958 into a single "Hot C&W Sides" Top 30 listing. With the new format and research basis, there are fewer pop and rock 'n' roll records featured in the country charts this year, and it provides a platform for the top country artists of the day, as well as a number of more obscure tracks which have not been widely available on CD. 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.

This release 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.

Swamp Pop is indigenous to the Acadiana region of South Louisiana as well as from the Beaumont/ Port Arthur area of neighboring East Texas. It is marked by highly emotional, ultra-romantic, plaintive style vocals. The simple, unaffected and often bilingual lyrics are backed by a honky-tonk piano, bellowing sax sections and a strong R&B backbeat. Upbeat pieces often possess the bouncy rhythms of Cajun and black Creole two-steps, and their lyrics frequently convey the local color and joie de vivre spirit pervading South Louisiana. Slow melancholic ballads with their undulating bass line and dramatic breaks exhibit the heart-broken ‘what’s-the-use-of-living’ laments common to many Cajun and black Creole compositions. The genre appeared during the mid-to late 1950s, its heyday lasting until the early 1980s.