Buzz Break: 2014 Panini Country Music cards (hobby box)

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The box: 2014 Panini Country Music cards (hobby box)
Where to buy: Click here

Packs per box: 4
Cards per pack: 8
Cards in this box: 32
Base set completion: 
20 of 100 (20 percent)
Duplicates: 0

Base cards of notables – Kimberly Perry, Darius Rucker, Randy Owen, John Rich, Wynona Judd, Jennifer Nettles, Tracy Lawrence, Brantley Gilbert, John Rich

Insert cards: 8 (see all in gallery below)
Blue base parallel (1) – Matt Thomas (/199)
Red Award Winners (1) – Wynona (/99)
Award Winners (1) – Scotty McCreery
Backstage Pass (1) – Josh Gracin
Fresh Faces (1) – Jana Kramer
Fresh Faces Blue (1) – James Young (/199)
Instrumental (1) – John Rich
Top of the Charts (1) – Sara Evans

Autographs/Memorabilia: 4
Signatures Silver (1) – Jamie Lynn Spears (/49)
Signatures Bronze (1) – Reid Perry (/499)
Silhouettes (1) – Kelsey Harmon (/399)
Musician Materials Silver (1) – Ashley Monroe (/99)

What's Buzz-worthy: Picked up a couple of these dirt-cheap at The National and they both delivered pretty well. As said in a previous break of this one, this release is a landmark set for the genre of country music in the "hits" era of the hobby. There have been other sets for the genre -- but not with ink and memorabilia. Hobby boxes have four packs with a hit in each, which makes the chase for some bigger names on autographs, including Miranda Lambert, who still sells very well on eBay, a bit easier than its retail counterpart though those boxes can still deliver solid finds. Typical boxes have two autos and two memorabilia cards -- and some of those are dirt cheap -- but there are names such as Darius Rucker, LeAnn Rimes, Kimberly Perry, Sara Evans, Terri Clark and Wynona Judd that can make it worth a rip. (Many of the names here have no other autographs.) In this case we landed three auto cards at a price of less than one pack back back when it arrived and the names here are relatively solid. Since more boxes have been ripped the prices on a lot of cards have come way down but this one is still a pretty fun rip based on what you can land for less than the price of a blaster.

Product Grade: A
Box Grade: A
Fun Grade: A-

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