Sarah Colvin

A history of modern Germany told not through the lives of its leaders, but its lawbreakers.

2014 five CD set. 100 Hits brings you the best classic acoustic tracks from the last six decades featuring artists such as the Coral, the Byrds, Albert Hammond and Johnny Cash.

Four Decades of Folk Rock is an expansive box set, allowing one disc and over an hour of music for each decade. For those who would argue that folk-rock was primarily a 1960s phenomenon in the United States and a '60s and '70s phenomenon in Britain, the box counters that the musical strains of folk-rock have informed everyone from R.E.M. to the Bangles to David Gray. It's unlikely, though, that anyone but record shop nerds and music historians will be very interested in the debate. For everyone else, the set will be measured by the quality of the music itself, and on that account, Four Decades delivers a remarkable set list.