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Contemporary Country was a popular 22-volume music series launched by Time-Life in the summer of 1991, dedicated to showcasing country music from the 1970s through the mid-1990s. Each volume, available on CD or cassette, offered 22 essential tracks along with an informative booklet featuring liner notes from respected historians, artist photographs, and Billboard chart data. This series seamlessly continued Time-Life's efforts to chronicle country music's post-1950 history, building upon their earlier "Country USA" series.

Widely advertised on television and in magazines, it was distributed through a convenient subscription service (sending new volumes bi-monthly) and individual sales, allowing fans to collect nearly 500 significant songs in total. Although most volumes were released by 1993, a "Mid-1990s" volume followed in 2000, and the series remained available into the early 2000s before being replaced by newer Time-Life compilations.