January 2021. Sadly, we announce the passing of BACM’s co-founder Dave Barnes, long time collector and promoter of traditional country music. BACM began as his personal record collection in the ea...
November 2020. How is it that folks in this era of computers and electronics can be so stupid? Here we have a situation with coronavirus that the world has perhaps never seen before and yet peopl...
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Sept/Oct 2020 (1st Sept 2020)
September 2020. The year is hopping along at great speed and, as far as I’m concerned, I’d like to see the back of it. A very dear cousin has just passed away as well as two friends who were perha...
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1st July 2020
1st July. The coronavirus has just taken one of my dearest friends John Dodds, who I had known through Country Music for 60 years. We didn’t see much of each other because he lived in North East En...
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May (April/May 2020)
1st May. Hi Everybody, I’m back to say a few words on the new releases for May/June. It seems it always happens that I hit some blockages when putting together the new releases. Sometimes it...
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March 2020 (for Feb and March)
1st March. Well, after 18 years of producing three new CD’s every single month – we’ve decided to reduce the pressure and from now on we'll give ourselves... Read the newsletter
January 2020
January 2020. Another year and I’m pleased to say I’m still here everyday, working to keep the BACM wheels turning, restoring more of the forgotten treasures of country music. One of the best thin... Read the newsletter
December 2019. The sad news of the month for us at BACM is the passing of our old sidekick, Phil Tricker. Phil lived and breathed country music for the best part of his life and left a legacy of C... Read the newsletter
November 2019
Hi Everyone, We’re back to the wet and dismal days of November and with summer it’s always nice to get back inside and put your feet up by the fire and listen to some real good music, country musi... Read the newsletter
July 2019
July 2019. This month’s three new releases kick off with a CD of novelty songs which are a bit like Marmite, you either hate it or love it (Hillbilly Novelty Bands In New York Vol 1 (1935-39... Read the newsletter
June 2019
JUNE 2019. Here we are and a bit under half the year gone by already. Our three new releases brings to 18 the number of CDs we’ve produced so far this year – which means another 500 or so recordin... Read the newsletter
May 2019
May 1st 2019. Here we are again and yet another month has slipped by. Why is it that the older you get, time goes faster or at least it does to me. It seems not so long ago that we started off this ve... Read the newsletter
April 2019
April 2019. Whilst reading hillbilly.com the other day I noticed that an old friend had passed away aged 86. He was Pennsylvania’s King of Country Music, Cowboy Howard Vokes. I first met him in 1961... Read the newsletter
March 2019
1st March. Over the past 17 years we’ve grown to be a leading source of authentic early country music, thanks to our dedicated team – a small group of country music devotees who put in the hours t... Read the newsletter
February 2019
1st February. It’s back to normal right now with the holidays over with for a while. The supermarkets and travel companies keep reminding us that it’s not the case as they rummage around getting e... Read the newsletter
Jan 2019
1st January 2019. Another year done and dusted and each year they seem to fly by faster than ever. Once again we’ve achieved our mission – producing 36 new CDs, three each month and nearly alway... Read the newsletter