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: 
21 of 100 (21 percent)
Duplicates: 0

Base cards of notables – The Band Perry, Big & Rich, Eli Young Band, Alabama, Reid Perry, Brantley Gilbert, Jennifer Nettles, LeAnn Rimes

Insert cards: 7 (see all in gallery below along with hits)
Gold base parallel (1) – Randy Owen (/25)
Blue Instrumental (1) – Brantley Gilbert (/199)
Award Winners (1) – Terri Clark
Backstage Pass (1) – Darius Rucker
Fresh Faces (1) – Dustin Lynch
Instrumental (1) – Gretchen Wilson
Top of the Charts (1) – The Band Perry

Autographs/Memorabilia: 4
Signatures Bronze (1) – Chris Thompson (/394)
Dual Musician Materials (1) – Jana Kramer & Lindsay Eli (/25)
Silhouettes (1) – Mark Chestnutt (/330)
Musician Materials Silver (1) – Mike Eli (/499)

What's Buzz-worthy: This is the last of these boxes that I picked up at a dirt-cheap price at The National and it again 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.) This box's rarer inclusions among both inserts and hits was pretty strong -- though at a price of less than one pack back back when it arrived -- that's not as much of a concern. 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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