Marty Robbins - Gunfighter Ballads & Trail Songs
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Artist: Marty RobbinsBrand: ROBBINS,MARTY
Edition: Music CD
Format: Extra tracks, Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 1999-10-19
Music Label: Sony
Soundtracks:
- Big Iron
- A Hundred And Sixty Acres
- They're Hanging Me Tonight
- Cool Water
- Billy The Kid
- Utah Carol
- The Strawberry Roan
- The Master's Call
- Running Gun
- El Paso
- In The Valley
- The Little Green Valley
- The Hanging Tree
- Saddle Tramp
- El Paso (Full-Length Version)
Music reviews of Gunfighter Ballads & Trail Songs
Music Review: One of the great singers of the 20th Century
Rating: 5 Stars
When I first heard this album back in 1960 (as a kid of 15) I was unimpressed; I was into a more Pop sound and it was bought by an elder brother of mine and it did nothing for me at the time. Then for some reason I decided to play it one afternoon and I was simply blown away by the singer performing these songs. Marty Robbins was performing them as only he could with such spellbinding emotional sincerity that I became hooked on this artist for life.'El Paso', 'Big Iron, 'Running Gun' and 'The Master's Call' were all movies set to music embellished by the great guitar work of Grady Martin and the vocal accompaniment of Bobby Sykes and Jim Glaser. Previously 'Cool Water' had been associated with the Sons of the Pioneers or Frankie Laine but it was to become as much a Marty Robbins song thanks to this magnificent version likewise his stirring interpretations of 'Utah Carol' and 'Strawberry Roan.'
One could ask how could Marty follow this masterpiece but follow it he did because the follow up 'More Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs' reaches the high standard set by its predecessor.
This great album led me back to the records he had released in previous years when I (and most of the U.K.) were unaware of him and rued the fact that such a fine artist should have been deprived of many hits in Britain because of mostly second rate cover versions by British singers. 'Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs' was a success however, in Britain and 'El Paso' did make our top 20 and a couple of years later 'Devil Woman' and 'Ruby Ann' charted and a TV advertized album hit the top 10 but this awesome talent should have had much more recognition over here than he got. How many times in conversation have I mentioned that I was a Marty Robbins fan and be greeted with almost reverence in acknowledgement of his greatness by the person I was talking to?
Description of Gunfighter Ballads & Trail Songs
Recorded on 7 April 1959 Gunfighter Ballads & Trail Songs was released in September the same year and would peak at #6 on the Billboard album charts. The major success of the album was the single El Paso, a #1 hit on both the pop and country charts in 1960 and subsequently the winner of the Grammy Award for Best Country & Western Recording. The album features Marty on guitar and vocals, Grady Martin and Jack Pruett on guitar, Bob Moore on bass, Louis Dunn on drums and backing vocals by Tompall & The Glaser Brothers.A lonely Westerner in Nashville, Marty Robbins salved his soul by cutting an album (in one afternoon) of mostly self-composed cowboy ballads. One of them was a four-and-a-half-minute epic, "El Paso," that broke every rule of Top 40 programming to become a No. 1 pop and country hit in 1960. Robbins was arguably the most surefooted and accomplished singer in all country music, and that was never more obvious than on these Western ballads performed to often breathtaking perfection with a very small group and a vocal trio. Other titles include "Big Iron" (also a Top 30 hit), "Running Gun," and Western classics like "Cool Water," "Billy the Kid," and "The Strawberry Roan." Three extra tracks flesh out the 1999 release, including "Saddle Tramp" (the B-side of "Big Iron") and "The Hanging Tree" (title song from the 1959 Gary Cooper Western). --Colin Escott
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