2011 two CD collection. Country Music is seen as a document of ordinary people"s lives, loves and losses in rural and small-town USA. But it was always something more and less than that. It"s also about painting a picture of mythic America where a city-dweller could saddle up and head out on the range, or have a beer in a small Honky Tonk on the road to nowhere. And it"s just about the most lucrative genre in popular music in the bargain... Hank Williams, Jimmie Rodgers, Patsy Cline, Johnny Cash: the mere names evoke passion and melancholy and melody and life. Country music is the people"s music and this fantastic 2CD compilation brings together 44 of the genre"s honky-tonkingest tracks. Grab a beer and put a nickel in the juke-box. Metro Select.