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1	The Definitive Collection (2006) more music like this by Ernest Tubb MCA Nashville's 2006 release The Definitive Collection isn't quite as definitive as the similarly titled 2001 Collectors Choice compilation The Definitive Ernest Tubb Hits Collection, which had 40 songs spread over two discs. In contrast, this Definitive Collection is a mere single disc, but it's a generous single disc, containing a whopping 25 ... see all copies from $10.96! new only from $10.96!
2	RCA Country Legends (2002) more music like this by Jimmie Rodgers Jimmie Rodgers is an icon of American music, and this volume in the RCA Country Legends series does a fine job of presenting his music for both newcomers to Rodgers and longtime fans alike. The 17 tracks contain some of his most well-known numbers, like "Blue Yodel (T for Texas)," "Train Whistle Blues," "Blue Yodel #9," and "Blue Yodel #8 (Mule ... see all copies from $10.66! new only from $10.66!
3	Whistle Bait: 25 Rockabilly Rave-Ups (2000) more music like this by Various Artists Culled from the CBS vaults, Whistle Bait is a very good anthology of 25 rockabilly numbers -- or, if not quite rockabilly, tracks by country artists veering close to rockabilly -- that for the most part will be unfamiliar to all but the most dedicated rockabilly collectors. Sure, there are some stars and cult faves here, like the Collins Kids, ... see all copies from $5.92! new only from $5.92!
4	Stompin' Singers & Western Swingers: More from the Golden Age of Western Swing (2005) more music like this by Various Artists see all copies from $18.98! new only from $18.98!
5	From Boppin Hillbilly to Red Hot Rockabilly (2006) more music like this by Various Artists This delightful and valuable set collects 120 tracks of vintage amped-up honky tonk and country boogie, beginning with releases from 1951 and stretching through to Elvis Presley's Sun years and the rockabilly explosion of 1955, effectively sketching out how what Carl Perkins called "country music with a beat" evolved and shifted into the monster ... see all copies from $18.99! new only from $18.99!
6	King of Western Swing [JSP] (2007) more music like this by Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys JSP's outstanding four-CD Bob Wills anthology consists of 100 classic Western swing performances recorded between September 1935 and April 1940 in Dallas, Fort Worth, Chicago, and Saginaw. Almost all of these 78-rpm records came out under the name of the Texas Playboys; the only exceptions are two fiddle and guitar duets by Bob Wills and Sleepy ... see all copies from $13.87! new only from $25.43!
7	Country 1951-1958 (1991) more music like this by Marty Robbins Listeners charmed by his pre-El Paso country have a motherlode to explore in this five-disc boxed set filled with dewy-eyed weepers (his earliest recordings), his rockabilly (he cut the first cover of "Maybellene"), ancient country-folk accompanied solely by acoustic guitar ("The Dream of the Miner's Chill"), Hawaiiana ("Aloha Oe"), and a handful ... see all copies from $32.39! new only from $167.32!
8	Stay a Little Longer: The Original Columbia Recordings, Vol. 2 (2002) more music like this by Bob Wills Containing 16 cuts from the mid-'30s to the mid-'40s, this compilation of Wills' Columbia sides is a little quirky in that it doesn't present itself as a best-of or a thematic anthology. It's just a dip into his massive body of 1930s and 1940s recordings, including some of his better-known tracks -- "Steel Guitar Rag" (described in the liner notes ... see all copies from $9.98! new only from $15.54!
9	Alley Cat Stomp 1937-1941 (2006) more music like this by Shelly Lee Alley Part Western swing, part jazz, and part good-time honky tonk, Shelly Lee Alley & His Alley Cats were one of Texas' most popular bands at the end of the 1930s and into the 1940s. A competent singer and fiddler, Alley was also a prolific songwriter, and this 26-track compilation collects about half of the sides he cut for Vocalion Records between ... see all copies from $14.86! new only from $14.86!
10	Kerouac's Last Dream (1997) more music like this by Ramblin' Jack Elliott Ramblin' Jack Elliott recorded this 70-minute session in Germany in 1980; 17 years later, it found an American release. Among the 17 selections are many -- "Pretty Boy Floyd," "1913 Massacre," "Buffalo Skinners" -- that are a standard part of Elliott's Woody Guthrie-influenced repertoire. "I have been asked, sometimes, why I don't learn new songs, ... see all copies from $10.00! new only from $15.40!
11 view cover	Memorial Album (1997) more music like this by Jimmie Rodgers Jimmie Rodgers' Memorial Album gathers 24 songs taken from the Singing Brakeman's short recording career for RCA Victor in the late '20s and early '30s. While the majority of Rodgers' signature tunes are here -- including "T for Texas (Blue Yodel No. 1)," "Away out on the Mountain," "Waiting for a Train," and "Daddy and Home" -- a few essential ... see all copies from $5.97!
12 view cover	I'll Sail My Ship Alone (1958) more music like this by Moon Mullican One of the first issues in Proper's "Pairs" series, this budget two-disc set is the most comprehensive overview of Moon Mullican's music available, spanning his career from his days with the Blueridge Playboys in the mid-'30s to his solo recordings of the early '50s. Its 50 tracks don't contain all of his best recordings (no Mullican collection ... see all copies from $6.00!
13 view cover	Blue Yodelers: 1928-1936 (2000) more music like this by Various Artists The crossover between jazz and country music was at its peak in the late 1930s with the rise of Western Swing, which was essentially swinging jazz that utilized the instruments (and sometimes the melodies) of rural white America. However a decade earlier, a few vocalists who helped pioneer country music sometimes sang blues and used jazz musicians ... see all copies from $8.79! new only from $8.79!
14 view cover	Texas Troubadour [Box Set] (2003) more music like this by Ernest Tubb The Texas Troubadour is an extremely competitively priced four-CD set covering the highlights of the first 16 years of Ernest Tubb's career, from "The Last Thoughts on Jimmie Rodgers" in 1936 up through his September 1952 holiday recording "Merry Texas Christmas You All!" -- it's no substitute for Bear Family Records' Walking the Floor Over You or ... see all copies from $28.60! new only from $28.60!
15 view cover	Country Style/Live (1962) more music like this by Ramblin' Jack Elliott A two-for-one single-disc reissue of two 1962 albums: the studio date Country Style and the live club recording At the Second Fret (here retitled Live). With a couple dozen songs in all, you get a good representation of Elliott's repertoire of the time: old country songs ("The Wreck of the Old 97," "Mule Skinner Blues"), old-school country tunes ( ... see all copies from $15.48! new only from $15.48!
16 view cover	Columbia Rockabilly, Vol. 1 (2000) more music like this by Various Artists see all copies from $11.08! new only from $11.08!
17 view cover	Lonesome Road/Look Away! (2002) more music like this by Doc & Merle Watson Doc Watson's United Artists Records catalog (long-since acquired by EMI) was tapped for two compilations in the fall of 2002, this two-fer combining his 1977 album Lonesome Road and his 1978 album Look Away!, licensed by Southern Music Distribution, and Songs From Home on EMI's Capitol Records label. The flurry of activity can be traced to the ... see all copies from $15.21! new only from $15.21!
18 view cover	Train Whistle Blues [ASV/Living Era] (1994) more music like this by Jimmie Rodgers For fans who want an excellent but not overwhelming selection of Rodgers' music, there are two solid choices: RCA's single-disc Essential Jimmie Rodgers collection or ASV/Living Era's two-part retrospective, of which Train Whistle Blues is the first. Some of Rodgers' best songs are here, among them "Blue Yodel No. 4 (California Blues)," "Hobo ... see all copies from $10.41! new only from $10.41!
19 view cover	Early Hits of "The Texas Troubadour" (2000) more music like this by Ernest Tubb Unfortunately, sloppy budget CDs are not uncommon in the country market. The price might seem right, but in many cases, the buyer is subjected to inferior sound quality (due to inferior remastering) as well as a lack of liner notes and recording dates. And quite often, country budget labels conveniently forget to mention the fact that they're ... see all copies from $10.55! new only from $10.55!
20 view cover	Rock'n Roll'n Robbins (1956) more music like this by Marty Robbins When rockabilly reared its ugly head in country music circles back in the mid-'50s, hillbilly artists generally took one of two approaches to it: ignore it or take a stab at it. One country singer who decided to test these uncharted waters was Marty Robbins, and as this 12-song package clearly shows, he was well-equipped to take on the new sound. ... see all copies from $625.00!
21 view cover	Walking the Floor over You [Box Set] (1996) more music like this by Ernest Tubb Okay, it's eight 70-minute-plus CDs and over $200 retail, and that would dissuade even loyal fans from springing for this set. But there's not a bad cut here, nor more than a dozen tracks that have been heard in 50 years, or are ever likely to be heard elsewhere. And most of the 200+ songs, covering 1936 until early 1947, never showed up on LP. ... see all copies from $150.91! new only from $150.91!
22 view cover	That Silver Haired Daddy of Mine (2006) more music like this by Gene Autry This nine-CD set is a lot more Gene Autry than any casual fan would want to hear, but it is not without its considerable rewards and surprises, and might well convert casual fans into serious listeners. All of Autry's surviving recordings, more than 200 of them, from October of 1929 until November of 1933, are included, and comprise a vast range ... see all copies from $260.81! new only from $260.81!
23 view cover	Rock'n Roll'n Robbins [Compilation] (1985) more music like this by Marty Robbins In Bear Family's atypically exhaustive fashion, the label has gone to the vaults to track down all of Marty Robbins' pre-rock & roll sides from 1953 ("It's a Long Ride") and 1954 ("Call Me Up"), as well as four bluesed-out cuts from that year that remained shelved until after his death in 1982, to the 1955-1957 rockabilly material. There are 19 ... see all copies from $16.33! new only from $16.33!
24 view cover	Slim's Jam [Drive Archive] (1945) more music like this by Slim Gaillard This budget CD only has around 36 minutes of music, but the three four-song sessions feature guitarist-singer-comedian Slim Gaillard in prime form. Four of the numbers ("Flat Foot Floogie," "Dizzy Boogie," "Poppity Pop" and the classic "Slim's Jam") are famous, for they teamed Gaillard, bassist Bam Brown, pianist Dodo Marmarosa and drummer Zutty ... see all copies from $5.30! new only from $5.30!
25 view cover	Country Pioneers (2001) more music like this by Various Artists While some might consider Merle Haggard, Conway Twitty, and Buck Owens to be country pioneers, the music's roots run much deeper than the honky tonk of the '50s and '60s. Country Pioneers offers two songs each from a dozen performers who played essential roles in building country music's foundation. The collection begins with Fiddlin' John Carson ... see all copies from $19.58! new only from $19.58!

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