the sun country box: country music recorded by sam phillips 1950-1959

208 tracks in a 6 cd box (lp format) with 148-page hardcover book. In conjunction with Sun's sixtieth anniversary, Bear Family is releasing three genre-defining box sets. 'The Country Box' is the first. Bear Family issued the original 'Sun Country Years' in 1986, and now it's back. Few knew it, but Sam Phillips' original recordings after he started his studio were country - not blues. Now the story of Phillips' involvement in country music from 1950 until 1959 is told in full. There's Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Carl Perkins, of course, but the real story lies in artists like Ernie Chaffin, Slim Rhodes, Charlie Feathers, Warren Smith, and many others who didn't make it, but made fabulously underrated music. It's all here! Newly restored audio, newly discovered recordings, and newly unearthed photos make this an essential companion to the blues box. So don't believe that the story of Sun Records has been told until you hear a priceless audio fragment that might be Sun no.176 the only Sun record that has never been heard, or seen the scrap of paper where Sam Phillips figured out his tiny income for 1952, or hear afro-American gay nightclub singer Rudi Richardson sing rock 'n' roll! This is the story of the most lauded record label of all time told as only Bear Family can tell it! This is the story of ten years that changed the world of popular culture!