The best box set of Cash but still incompete, even for the Sun and Columbia years.

AP's collecting/editing of Appalachian songs inadvertently masked the Scot/Irish/n. English source of Country and guaranteed the rank commercialism that often mars it. But that doesn't harm this music

Legend says that Japanese troops charged shouting. 'Death to Babe Ruth and Roy Acuff.' His music is alternately a paean to and elegy for the best American values: agrarian, hillbilly, Christian.

From '50s rockabilly to latter day honky-tonk to Countrypolitan to flirtations with bluegrass: Jones has mastered it all. He deserves a bigger box set.

Robbins is often neglected, and this box set is out of print. But he mastered honky tonk, '50s rock, cowboy songs, and Countrypolitan. He deserves a set of 70 songs.

What a find this was. Also get Complete Columbia, Complete Mercury, and Ralph's 'solo' masterpieces Saturday Night/Sunday Morning and Clinch Mt. Country.

It took me years to appreciate Miss Kitty, who never polished herself for Countrypolitan tastes. She is queen of the honky tonk sound.

Yoakam's first 4 albums are masterpieces, as is this stripped down remake of early material. Rockabilly, honky tonk, ballads, bluegrass, Elvis: Dwight does it all expertly. He is what Gram Parsons saw

Twitty is the epitome of the mournful, passionate Country crooner desperate for love, licit and illicit.

Jimmie Rodgers, who influenced blues singers much more than Robert Johnson influenced any Country singer or picker, defined the early solo performer, and that influence stretched to rock 'n' roll.

Foley, whose influence was great on Elvis and Hank Jr, was the forefather of the polished Countrypolitan sound. He was Country while sounding suburban and perhaps midwestern, thus unthreatening.

Gram Parsons' best and most direct protege, EmmyLou has kept his vision alive. No collection does justice to her work, so get all the early albums. This will do for a peak.