BEAR FAMILY

The rockabilly queen who transfixed us on those early Capitol LPs is now 65. That's right Wanda Jackson has reached retirement age, although she shows no signs of slowing down. In celebration of...

Down in Muscle Shoals, Alabama, Atlantic Records' Jerry Wexler had fallen out with Rick Hall at FAME studio after an Aretha Franklin session ended with Aretha storming back to New York. Wexler later...

After the success of our 'Wanda Rocks' CD, we've given the definitive single CD treatment to her fellow Capitol artist, Sonny James. Sonny James might not have rocked with the same vengeance as Wanda...

-After three English-language albums, Till Kersting finds his perfect home port with his own songs in German on Bear Family Records«!-The completely and perfectly analog produced luxuriously equipped...

-The newest hit in Bear Family Records«'s 10inch vinyl series - Brit Rocker Johnny Kidd. -The album and the bonus CD contain Johnny Kidd's recordings from 1959 to 1962 with a focus on his earliest...

EU collection. Bear Family Records continues it's CD-series of recordings by benchmark British rockers with an album dedicated to Johnny Kidd & The Pirates. Johnny Kidd died in 1966, but along with...

It's no surprise that history defines Pee Wee King and the Golden West Cowboys by their hits: The immortal "Tennessee Waltz" written in 1947 by King and singer/fiddler Redd Stewart, "Slow Poke" and...

They've been legends among rock 'n' roll collectors for decades now, but those original Columbia recordings still retain their Texas punch. Now they're paired with Sid's early pre-Columbia sides and...

Progressive Rock from Germany! Never before has there been a comparable compilation! Towards the end of the 1960s, German bands began their first attempts to emancipate themselves stylistically...

2008 collection containing 35 tracks from the human jukebox. Sleepy LaBeef rocks! We're talking raw and authentic 1950s Rockabilly here. And some 1960s and 1970s recordings that Rock even harder, if...

Gentle, erotic, and powerful-voiced are just a few of the attributes critics worldwide use to describe Peggy Lee's vocals. Long overdue, here comes an album with the greatest recordings of one of the...

-The obscure Felsted label, founded in 1954 in the U.K. and three years later in the U.S., was known primarily for it's pop and crooner recordings.-But Felsted has released a considerable number of...