Country

Joe Glazer said of Kenny Winfree: "[He's] got a talent that looks easy but few folks can do it. He has [a] knack for writing catchy, moving songs with a message-songs that are easy to sing and easy to remember." Blue Collar Bluegrass is a collection of...

Jimmy Wakely was one of the last of the "singing cowboys", personalities who combined their appearances in western movies with recording country and western records and appearing on radio and TV on shows like the Grand Ole Opry. His career in both media...

Jimmy Newman was a country artist from Louisiana who enjoyed a career in the mainstream of the genre as a long-time member of the Grand Ole Opry, but who very much had his roots in Cajun music and was able to integrate Cajun style into his performances...

Jimmy Martin was an influential bluegrass guitarist when he fronted Bill Monroe's Blue Grass Boys changed the sound of the genre forever. Presented here are the first two of Jimmy Martin's LP releases, "Good 'N' Country" and "Country Music Time". These...

Jimmy Lee Fautheree and Johnny Mathis (no, not THAT Johnny Mathis) may not have been blood relatives but they harmonised like true siblings such as Don and Phil Everly, Ira and Charlie Louvin and Bill and Charlie Monroe were. Their terrific and...

Jimmy Dean was a country singer and radio and TV personality and actor whose primary claim to musical fame came with the iconic landmark 1961 crossover pop/country hit "Big Bad John", although he had many other significant hits over the years. Born in...

Jimmy Dean burst upon the music scene in the mid-'50s with an easy-going, crooning style that enabled him to bridge the gap between pop and country music easier than many other artists of the day. Even more success came with his TV show, which helped...

Jimmie Skinner was a country singer, guitarist and songwriter from Kentucky whose roots were in bluegrass music and who forged a successful career as a hit-making country artist. His chart career began in the 1940s as he performed in his sparse,...

Jimmie Davis was one of the most popular and respected hillbilly singers of the 1930s, a natural inheritor, along with likes of Gene Autry, of the mantle of the great Jimmie Rodgers and who influenced a generation of artists whose work is now part of...

Jim Reeves's contribution to Country music is immense. He was the genre's first star to truly embrace international fame and had he not died tragically in a 1964 air crash would certainly have become even more involved with the music's evolution. This...

Jim Reeves - widely known as "Gentleman Jim" - was one of the most successful and important country artists of the 1950s and early '60s, his rich, velvet voice bringing a unique sound and style, which was in the vanguard of the "new Nashville" sound, as...

Jim Pownall became famous in the 60's as the lead singer of the famous rock and roll - Indo Rock band The Hot Jumpers. In the 90's he and his wife started the country - folk band the Jim & Eve Selection. This solo album of Jim is like the albums of the...