VA - Truckers, Kickers, Cowboy Angels: The Blissed-Out Birth of Country Rock, Vol. 4: 1971 (2015)

Double CDs and generously full booklets with complete song-by-song notes, rare photos, and first-person accounts. Volume 4 – 1971: And this was the year that the Eagles came together. Originally country rock artists backing Linda Ronstadt, they later changed American popular music. This volume includes Commander Cody, Link Wray, the Flying Burrito Brothers, the Band, New Riders of the Purple Sage, John Prine, J.J. Cale, Ry Cooder, Little Feat, and the first British bands to play country rock, Head Hands & Feet and Cochise.

This is what fans across the world have come to expect from Bear Family: genre-defining compilations, generously full CDs, in-depth notes, rare photos, and complete discographies. In short, a 360 degree musical experience. So spray some patchouli oil, light up an exotic cigarette (where it’s legal to do so, of course) and venture back to the late hippie era. From Los Angeles’ vertiginous canyons to London’s Marble Arch, the story is here!