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Marty Robbins - The Best of Marty Robbins Audio CD

A fair review of the Marty Robbins "The Best of Marty Robbins" Audio CD. Please note that the below review is the views of the authors, and authors only. You can get a complete list of all Marty Robbins reviews here, or go back to the Marty Robbins tabs.

Marty Robbins Band: Marty Robbins
Title: The Best of Marty Robbins
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Release Date: 1991-07-01
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Walking Piece of Heaven 2: Love Me 3: Twentieth Century Drifter 4: Don't You Think 5: Life 6: Man and a Train 7: Crawling on My Knees 8: It Takes Faith 9: Shotgun Rider 10: Two Gun Daddy

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Thank you. I am very pleased with this record and also with the prompt delivery.


Not quite 'The Best of'..............
The best song on here is 'Life' which is Marty's 'My Way' and is a Marty Robbins original of the highest standard. Marty Robbins' best work was undoubtedly on the Columbia label and these 10 are from his short sojourn with MCA. Personally, I like 'A Man And A Train' (from the Lee Marvin movie) which Marty really belts out and showed how Robbins could cross the tracks so effortlessly from Country to any other genre. All in all, not a bad album but there are many better ones by one of the greatest talents ever to grace Country music. Other tracks include 'Love Me', 'Crawling On My Knees', 'Shotgun Rider' and a tipping of Mary's stetson to 'The Father of Country Music' Jimmie Rodgers with 'Two Gun Daddy. ' As a side note, I believe ther is still some unreleased material from his post MCA days on Columbia which hasn't seen the light of day yet.
Why?!.


This is a very special album!
The title doesn't do justice to this album; it's much more than a standard "Best of. . " album. These really are some of his top songs and several are very hard to find elsewhere. I've got 3 copies of this CD just to make sure I will always have it handy.

Some of the rare songs are "Walking Piece of Heaven," "Don't You Think," "20th Century Drifter. " The wonderfully-performed song "Love Me" is especially difficult to find on other albums; it's the song that Jeanne Pruett (no relation to me) wrote for him and was always a favorite with the audiences when he sang it live on the Grand Ole Opry. Buy the CD for this song alone! The songs "Life," "A Man and a Train," "It takes Faith," are the kind of inspirational songs Marty did so well, and "Crawlin' On My Knees" is a very traditional Marty type of song. This CD also showcases what a top songwriter Marty was and how emotional he could be.

For those who loved, and still love, Marty's music, this is one of the best CDs you can buy.


Life
This is a great CD, it has one song, Life, I think it was the last before he died, it is hard to find on a CC, and it goes without saying all the other songs are great.


Marty in the Soup Line
Marty Robbins is on record as having said he made a mistake in leaving CBS (Columbia) Records and that his career had suffered. There are very few cases in which Marty Robbins did not deliver a good rendition of a song he took on, but the fact that one reviewer exalts the train song and another calls it the weakest part of the package tells a lot. The songs here are the ones he recorded while NOT with Columbia. YOU figure it out.


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