Conway Twitty

Pay the Devil, an album-long foray into country music, shouldn't come as a surprise to Van Morrison fans. It's a logical extension of his love affair with American music. Certainly blues, R&B, soul, and jazz have been at the forefront, but one can go all the way back to the Bang years and find "Joe Harper Saturday Morning," or songs on Tupelo Honey that touch country. More recently, You Win Again, with Linda Gail Lewis, offered two Hank Williams tunes and "Crazy Arms." The Skiffle Sessions with Lonnie Donegan offered traditional Southern tunes including Jimmie Rodgers' "Mule Skinner Blues." Morrison's lyrics have also referenced country music blatantly. Pay the Devil comes from direct sources of inspiration: his father's skiffle band and Ray Charles' historic forays into country on the two volumes of Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music in 1962. The evidence lies in three cuts on this disc, all of which Charles recorded: Curley Williams' "Half as Much," Art Harris and Fred Jay's "What Am I Livin' For," and Hank Williams' "Your Cheatin' Heart."

Album dedicated entirely to the country music, published in England in 1986 as the first volume of 'The Country Collection'. The CD is a compilation of 18 original remastered recordings of performers gathered between some of the most recognized historically and even some still alive in this gender. We could not miss names as Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, Faron Young , Patsy Cline or Dolly Parton.

Decca was a fairly wide-ranging label whose trademark sound was a strain of commercially palpable hillbilly pop perfected by producer (and, beginning in 1958, label head) Owen Bradley. These three discs offer an assortment of stars (Patsy Cline, Buddy Holly, Bill Monroe, Loretta Lynn), subordinates, and the uncelebrated. The latter, in fact, are what makes this box stand out. A great deal of the fun comes from antiquated time pieces like Johnny Wright's "Hello Vietnam" ("I hope theworld will come to learn/That fires we don't put out will bigger burn") or that master of the hayseed soliloquy Red Sovine's "If Jesus Came to Your House" ("Would you have to change your clothes before you let him in?/Or hide some magazines and put the Bible where they'd been?"). Overall, From The Vaults serves as an evocative sampler of what a rural jukebox was playing when Gunsmoke ruled the tube.

Following on from the success of Just The Hits: 80s and Just The Hits: 90s, Just The Hits: Rock it was only right we covered off some country classics, in a jam packed two album set! We've got all angles covered with a mix of nothing but the biggest country hits from the likes of Toby Keith, Sam Hunt, Billy Ray Cyrus, Kip Moore, Canaan Smith, Sugarland, Josh Turner, Trisha Yearwood, Brothers Osborne, The McClymonts, Reba McEntire, Eric Paslay, Conway Twitty, Loretta Lynn and far too many more to mention! If you want the hits, then Just The Hits Country is the album for you!!

For anyone in their mid-teens in the mid-5Os, and into music, it had to be rock'n'roll - American rock'n roll. There was no British equivalent to the sound. In the UK, it was Chuck Berry, Elvis Presley, The Platters, Alan Freed, Radio Luxembourg, Voice Of America.

The ten CDs are, so to speak, the antidote to our eroticly charged box '' Sex, Drugs And Alcohol '': Absolutely youthful, this new edition is full of romance, longing, love cries and the accompanying drama. The Rockn Roll era, which was otherwise so wild, has given us a lot of memorable love songs, which the young Elvis was so lucky enough to make on his first LP.

This series was devoted to the historic country artists who got their starts from the 1940s-1980s. Each volume was a single-disc CD, with extensive liner notes and lots of photos.