Country

Fifth volume in a limited edition series on Stag-O-Lee. This time compiled by the one and only Hank Ray - a fixture of the German Cramps/Rockabilly/Country-scene, having fronted the legendary Raymen, being a respected solo artist and currently in Lucifer's Sideburns. Limited to 666 copies and packaged in a nice 10" sleeve with center hole. This is a collection of oddball country weepers, moody rockabilly, widescreen country & western and popcorn noir from the 1950's and early 60's. So turn out the lights, sit back and relax to the soundtrack from a jukebox in a ghost town... For best results: listen to after dark!

200g audiophile pressing. Country Hits...Feelin' Blue, released by Tennessee Ernie Ford in 1964, is a throwback — or as the liner notes to this country classic (perhaps Ford's best) say, »You don't hear much singing like this nowadays — just a voice with easy guitar and bass accompaniment«. But oh, what a voice. Ford's resonant-voiced baritone might be best known for his 1955 cover of Merle Travis' grim coal-mining song "Sixteen Tons“, with sales topping 4 million copies. The hit cemented Ford's place as one of America's top entertainers — a singer and TV host who enjoyed success during the 1950s, '60s and '70s in multiple musical genres — country, pop, and gospel. He first guested on the Grand Ole Opry in 1950, and in 1953 he became the first country singer to appear at London's prestigious Palladium. Soon NBC hired him to emcee the television game show "Kollege of Musical Knowledge", and also to host his own weekday program. His subsequent prime-time network variety programs made »Bless your little pea-pickin' hearts« a household catch phrase and provided wide exposure for his musical renditions of great country and gospel favorites. The songs chosen by Ford for "Country Hits...Feelin' Blue" are all favorites, some of the best tunes from the inspired pens of such country composers as Hank Williams, Fred Rose, Jenny Lou Carson, Willie Nelson, and Don Gibson. The album (one of Ford's favorite LPs) was recorded with backup provided by just two musicians; guitarist Billy Strange and bassist John Mosher. Some of these songs go back to the start of Ford's career when he and Strange were working together as cast members of Los Angeles's "Hometown Jamboree" country music radio show. Mosher was a member of Ford's TV show band since its inception. Strange created the musical arrangements for "Country Hits...Feelin' Blue" — a quiet, simple get-together with the songs they had been playing and singing down through the years. That's why it's more than just another album. You can hear the affection and understanding coming through. For this Analogue Productions reissue we turned to the experts who once again bring their stellar craftsmanship to the creation of a phenomenal-sounding release. Lacquers were cut by Kevin Gray at Cohearent Audio who mastered the LP from the original tape. Plating and 200-gram pressing was by our own Quality Record Pressings, makers of the world's finest-sounding LPs noted for their superior sonics and silent backgrounds. And nothing less than a Stoughton Printing old-style tip-on jacket would suit such a great LP. Albums have been made with lots more people and lots more sound. But quantity never did mean quality. This is just a simple, great album. Great voice, great guitar and bass, and great songs — the best of each.

Las Vegas-based honky tonks, The Rhyolite Sound, are proud to release their new album, Mojave Gold. The album was self-produced by bandmates Larry Reha (guitar, vocals) , Erik Alesi (acoustic guitar, vocals), AJ Palluck (drums), James Caselton (lead guitar) and Jason Aragon (bass), alongside Ronald Corso (11th Street Records, Las Vegas).Mojave Gold is the second album from Whiskey Preachin Records and is also the second album from our favourite desert honky tonkers, The Rhyolite Sound. Formed in 2013, the five-piece band blend their love of hard honky tonk, outlaw country and southern rock and roll to deliver a driving set of tunes that demands repeat listening and frequent rewinds. Whiskey-soaked and hard-twanging, weaving memorable melodies among the madness and mayhem, The Rhyolite Sound are purveyors of pure honky tonk in an impure world. Packed full of toe- tapping, two-stepping weepers and hell raising, barn burning stompers, Mojave Gold is what we’ve been panning for.

So full of melancholy, suffering, desire and yes, minor, the ten songs on Kjellvander's debut album Songs From A Two-Room Chapel are so full of melancholy. (...)At the centre of the ten songs is the wonderful voice of Christian Kjellvander. Born in S

Pressed on Pink Opaque Vinyl at 45RPM.The Gulf Coast Sessions EP finds Jesse Dayton returning to his roots, growing up in Beaumont, Texas on the border of South East Texas and Louisiana. Recorded fast and loose w/ zero budget just for kicks, the music is inspired by the blues, zydeco and country of Dayton’s childhood.

Absolutely the best collection of Wanda Jackson's rockabilly recordings, including her key 1956-1960 singles – - Fujiyama Mama, Mean Mean Man, Hot Dog! That Made Him Mad, and others. Rockin' with Wanda! is a leading candidate for the best fem

On his ANTI- Records debut Beginners, Los Angeles-based singer/songwriter Christian Lee Hutson embeds every lyric with his most intimate self-dialogue, sharing painful confessions and private jokes, imagined conversations and elaborate daydreams. The album—produced by his friend and collaborator Phoebe Bridgers—spotlights a nuanced songcraft and understated candor that all but erases the distance between feeling and expression. Throughout this collection of songs, Hutson ultimately speaks an illuminating truth about regret and forgiveness and the endless confusion in growing up.

Limited 180gm orange vinyl LP pressing in gatefold jacket. Some of country music's biggest stars joined The Doobie Brothers with Michael McDonald for all-new recordings of the band's classic hits on 2014's Southbound. Blake Shelton, Brad Paisley, Casey James, Charlie Worsham, Chris Young, Jerrod Niemann, Johnnyswim's Amanda Sudano Ramirez, Love and Theft, Sara Evans, Toby Keith, Tyler Farr, and the Zac Brown Band make up the roster of artists choosing their favorite Doobie songs to record with the band, with selected tracks featuring special instrumental contributions from Hunter Hayes and Vince Gill. Indelible classics like "Black Water," "What a Fool Believes," "Jesus Is Just Alright," "Rockin' Down the Highway," "Long Train Runnin'," "China Grove," "Take Me in Your Arms," "Takin' It to the Streets" and "You Belong to Me" all get revitalized here. Tom Johnston remarked, "Southbound seemed like the perfect name of this collaboration project with all these dynamic country artists. The band has a lot of roots, both musically and lyrically, from the South such as blues, country, R&B, and folk. To us it was a natural fit that it be called Southbound."

Austin indie-rock band The Deer has fully stepped outside the folk/Americana world they've inhabited for the past several years with their new album Do No Harm. Singles Confetti to the Hurricane, Move to Girls, and Swoon are dynamic, powerful

Cow Pie releases Ags Connolly's critically acclaimed 'Wrong Again' on limited edition vinyl. Wrong Again is Ags Connolly's third studio album, following on from his highly-acclaimed offerings How About Now (2014) and Nothin' Unexpected (2017). Now it is available on beautiful limited edition clear and black 180 gram marbled vinyl. The traditional country singer-songwriter from Oxfordshire took the reins on this latest effort, producing the album with a team of London-based musicians in the peaceful and intimate surroundings of Woodworm Studios in his home county. Ags also enlisted the expert help of accordionist Michael Guerra (The Mavericks) and fiddle player Eamon McLoughlin (Emmylou Harris, Rodney Crowell), both of whom had graced his previous album. Alongside Ags' trademark honky tonk shuffles, drinking songs and barroom ballads, Wrong Again delves once more into Tex-Mex/south-of-the-border flavours while entering some new territory in the lively western swing closer Sad Songs Forever. Meanwhile, the one cover on the album is a swelling, earthy imagining of Gordon Lightfoot's classic Early Morning Rain. Whilst perhaps not a concept album in the accepted sense, Wrong Again does feature recurring themes: miles covered in cars and planes, the lone existence of the protagonist, the spectre of Austin, Texas - all gathered in the unforgiving shadow of lost love. These undercurrents tie the songs to each other and ultimately form a very personal record of the period in which they were written.

Double vinyl LP pressing. Regarded by many critics as Ray Charles's best studio albums, Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music Volumes 1 & 2 is a landmark album in American music. The album's integration of soul and country music bent racial barr

George Jones is without a doubt one of the most successful, influential and above all best country singers of all time! Country legend Waylon Jennings once put it in a nutshell: „If we could all sound the way we wanted to, we‘d all sound like George Jones.“ Rolling Stone magazine ranked him number 43rd best singer of all time. The only country singers ahead of him in that ranking are Johnny Cash and Hank Williams.

Precursor To Wilco (Jeff Tweedy) & Son Volt (Jay Farrar

Tim McGraw has sold more than 50 million records worldwide and dominated the charts with 43 worldwide #1 singles. He's won 16 ACM Awards, 14 CMA Awards and 3 Grammy Awards. His iconic career achievements include being the most played country artist since his debut in 1992. McGraw's new studio album from Big Machine Records, Here On Earth, will be available August 21st. Includes current single "I Called Mama".

Strictly Limited to 3,000 Numbered Copies! 180g 45RPM 2LP from Mobile Fidelity! Mastered From The Original Mono Master Tapes & Pressed at RTI! Mobile Fidelity Analog Set Presents the Music in True-to-the-Original Mono. Originally released in 1964 on Columbia, produced by fellow Country Music Hall of Fame inductee Don Law, and featuring note-for-note re-recordings of several staples Johnny Cash made for Sun Records - including the title track, "Hey Porter" and "Big River" - as well as several new originals, I Walk The Line cemented the singer's place as the leading country artist of the era. Indeed, as the original liner notes state, "I Walk The Line offers Johnny Cash, renowned storyteller-in-song, at his creative and performing best." Now, for the first time in more than five decades, you can experience it in true-to-the-source mono courtesy of Mobile Fidelity's meticulously restored reissue. Mastered from the original mono master tapes, pressed at RTI, and strictly limited to 3,000 numbered copies, the audiophile label's 180g 45RPM 2LP set broadcasts the inimitable sonics of the Man in Black's cut-from-bedrock baritone, earnest acoustic strumming, and hand-in-glove band with utmost clarity, directness, and realism. Much has been rightly made about the sparse, deceivingly simple boom-chicka-boom sound of Cash's righthand men, otherwise known as the Tennessee Three: bassist Marshall Grant, guitarist Luther Perkins, and drummer W.S. "Fluke" Holland. On this collectible edition of I Walk The Line, the trio's steady, fundamental rhythms and fresh, driving beats resonate with a presence, solidity, and immediacy unavailable on any other Cash recording. Such are the advantages associated with going back to mono, which gets right to the core of the rough-and-tumble country tenor of songs such as "Folsom Prison Blues" and "I Walk The Line". There's a profound release of more textures, embedded details, and lively cohesiveness, with the group enmeshed with rather than separated from Cash's vocals. Key instrumental and vocal contributions from the likes of the Carter Family, steel guitarist Don Helms, pianist Floyd Cramer, and trumpeters Bill McElhiney and Karl Garvin (the same duo who played the signature Mexican-inspired brass refrain on "Ring Of Fire") also come to the fore, no longer buried or artificially panned in the false stereo mix. Mobile Fidelity's I Walk The Line epitomizes the classic Cash sound and approach, through and through. As for the music, it remains infallible. While the Sun material may be redone, the inspired performances equal those of the originals and, in some cases, like the fresh arrangement of "Wreck Of The Old 97", improve upon them. And that says nothing of the new songs, most notably, the now-legendary "Understand Your Man", a humorous takedown that thematically and melodically references soon-to-be Cash collaborator Bob Dylan and his "Don't Think Twice, It's Alright". The tune hit Number One on the Billboard Country charts and stayed there for six weeks. Coupled with other new fare (e.g., the sly "Bad News" and gospel-bent closer "Troublesome Waters") and his ensemble's chemistry and in-the-moment enthusiasm, a byproduct of the momentum that witnessed the singer/guitarist and company attain crossover fame, and the reprised music helps make I Walk The Line a benchmark Columbia set - and a Cash milestone.

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