Jim Robbins

A Country Kind Of Christmas contains the definitive Artists & Country. The Best hits from Johnny Cash, Marty Robbins, Buck Owens, Jim Reeves and many more.

The five years from the beginning of 1958 to the end of 1962 were crucial to the genesis of country music as it moved away from a traditional hillbilly and western sound to something altogether more cosmopolitan in construction. The arrival of 'The Nashville Sound' with vocal groups and strings replacing steel guitars and fiddles, brought country music into the mainstream and resulted in an enormous amount of crossover action between the country chart and the Hot 100. 'The Nashville Sound Of Success' charts the progress, and the international acceptance of Country music between 1958 and 1962 by presenting - in chronological order - every record to make #1 on the Billboard Country chart during that period.

Brand new set in Delta's acclaimed Hot Hundred series. One hundred of the finest country cuts - Includes Crazy - Patsy Cline, I Walk The Line - Johnny Cash, Too Late to Worry, too Blue to Cry - Glen Campbell! Most of its songs are built around three chords and a plain melody, but these forms are so basic, they allow for many different styles, from the gritty sounds of honky tonk to the jazzy improvisations of Western Swing. As the genre progressed, old time music evolved into the rhythmic guitar-and-fiddle driven traditional country that became the foundation of modern country music, from honky tonk and Western Swing to the pop-oriented Countrypolitan and rock-inflected Bakersfield Sound.