The DAC Cd's are great! Big thick booklets too, a couple are even difficult to get back into the plastic cover with the tabs. Obviously, they sound great! The material quality starts to dribble by the later releases, but still great listening! My personal favorite: Great sounding recordings....
I'm still trying to figure out what your original post was referring to lol. You didn't know there was already an Anita Carter box set released?
Christian Zwarg, according to AllMusic. There was an Anita Carter box, but it's now out of print with the cheapest copy on Amazon being $400.
Yeah I kept waiting hoping I could find the Anita Carter set at a deal but the prices kept creeping up. I should have bought it when I had the chance.
I have yet another new favorite single disc compilation from Bear Family by Speedy West and Jimmy Bryant titled “Bustin’ Thru / Flippin’ The Lid”. It’s a brief, but definitive overview of the careers of these two extraordinary jazz guitarists. Only two quibbles with this release. It’s a digipack with its booklet glued in, and I do not like those. I much prefer standard jewel cases and booklets. I also find the audio to be a bit bright throughout. The best sounding Speedy West and Jimmy Bryant material, in my opinion, comes by way of two compilations released by Razor & Tie titled “Stratosphere Boogie” and “Swingin’ on the Strings”. By the way, I’m not just saying this because Steve Hoffman mastered these Razor & Tie comps. They really do sound warmer and more balanced. The Bear Family release is certainly worth getting. Yes, I know BF has issued a box set, which any one of you can feel free to get me for Christmas if you like!
I have all the David Allan Coe twofers except the last, Son of the South /Unchained... It's the only one that's OOP, and expensive on the secondary market... Does BF ever reissue their single disc releases? I suppose this one had the lowest pressing quantity, so is least likely to get a reissue. I just waited too long.
Like the box sets, single disc releases from Bear Family are regularly repressed and reprinted. One of the David Allan Coe discs (Longhaired Redneck/Rides Again) even got a new booklet (with better – and more readable – typesetting).
@Mychael Please ask Hank Davis if he would be interested in proposing a CD release of King Ganam as a project for Bear Family. Canadian country music pioneer King Ganam (born Ameen Sied Ganam) was a master showman and fiddle player. Born in Saskatchewan in 1914, Ganam died in 1994 in California. He formed The Sons Of The West in 1942 in Edmonton and performed on CBC radio's "Alberta Ranch House," and won the 1950 World Open Western Band Competition in Vancouver. The Sons Of The West were signed to RCA Victor, and Ganam earned his "King" nickname due to being "Canada's King of the Fiddle. Many of the great reissue labels including Bear Family Records have overlooked the quality major label material released by King Ganam. Country Hoedown with King Ganam King Ganam and Ward Allen book of songs
That's sucky too, when you have the rest and you only need 1 to complete the set! It's not even the best two-fer of the collection either....
Featuring a young Tommy Hunter (front and center) Whom everybody in Canada knew through his weekly television show from the 60s right up to the 90s. Tommy Hunter - Wikipedia
I'd love for some of Tommy's work to appear on CD, and so would my mom who watched The Tommy Hunter Show every week in the 60's and 70's.
Speaking of Canadian, a complete box set of Stompin' Tom Connors. His rare OOP CD's have asking prices of US50 - 100 bucks!
Here's a bit of footage recently uploaded of John D Loudermilk. Not a lot of video on him out there. Here he runs through a couple of his big compositions.