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Marty Robbins - Gunfighter Ballads & Trail Songs Audio CD

A fair review of the Marty Robbins "Gunfighter Ballads & Trail Songs" 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: Gunfighter Ballads & Trail Songs
Rating:
Release Date: 1999-10-19
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Big Iron 2: Hundred and Sixty Acres 3: They're Hanging Me Tonight 4: Cool Water 5: Billy the Kid 6: Utah Carol 7: Strawberry Roan 8: Master's Call 9: Running Gun 10: Paso 11: In the Valley 12: Little Green Valley 13: Hanging Tree [*] 14: Saddle Tramp [*] 15: Paso [Full-Length Version][*]

Good old music
I had it on a record and wanted a new one, because I enjoy this old real music. Us old farts need music too.


Best of Marty's cowboy compilations
Columbia engineers were in their hay-day in the early sixties with their crisp recording techniques and capturing of full-bodied tonalities and this album reflects that engineering standard, although recorded in Nashville instead of Hollywood where other great, powerful voices recorded, like Frankie Laine. This CD is excellently remastered by Sony and is complete, with all the original tracks from the LP with three additional tracks. This Marty collection would have been more complete by including the cut "Feleena (from El Paso)" which was on his "The Drifter" album. The song "Feleena" set up the story of "El Paso" in more detail, and is a balladeer styled song that gives you more background on the song "El Paso". As an aside, the LP version (long version) of "El Paso" is what is on this album, not the 45 RPM edit. As mentioned before, this album is complete with none of the songs messed up in any way by Sony's re-mastering engineers, unlike "Johnny Horton's Greatest Hits" album where "Johnny Freedom" is faded out on the end instead of allowing it to crescendo to the end of the song like it does on the original LP.


The Correct LP Track Order for a Classic Album
The correct track order of the original LP is:

Side 1
Big Iron
Cool Water
Billy the Kid
A Hundred and Sixty Acres
They're Hanging Me Tonight
Strawberry Roan

Side 2
El Paso
In the Valley
The Master's Call
Running Gun
Down in the Little Green Valley
Utah Carol

. One reviewer mentions that the songs on this CD are not in the order that they appeared on the original LP.


Gunfighter Ballads & Trail Songs
Have it on vinyl

from first issue.
Thank you Amazon for offering this particular album. So happy that I can now hear favorites from the past

on current electronics.


The Best Record Released in 1959
Back in the States he played clubs and bars, hosted his own radio show and eventually signed with Columbia Records. Marty Robbins learned to play the guitar in the Solomon Islands, so that was at least one good thing that came out of World War II. This record came out in 1959. I was thirteen and in the eight grade at Bancroft Junior High School in Lakewood, California and I'll never forget the day my dad brought it home. I played it silly, till there were so many clicks and pops in it I had to get another.

Not a bad song on this record. It opens with "Big Iron". A gunslinging song that paints a movie before your eyes as the words pour fourth. "Texas Red had not cleared leather for a bullet fell he ripped and the ranger's aim was deadly with the big iron on his hip. " What a line, what a song. "He might have went on living, but he made a fatal slip, when he tried to match the ranger with the big iron on his hip. " Can't you just see the movie?

"Billy the Kid" is another great cowboy song. "At the age of twelve years he did kill his first man. " "Running Gun" is another great story song, this time the hero doesn't win and the lesson learned here is that "a woman's love is wasted when she loves a running gun".

But by far the best song on the record is "El Paso. " I heard Bob Dylan talking about this song back when he played it one his Theme Time Radio Hour on XM Radio. He said that Marty Robbins wrote it for Mitch Miller, but Mitch thought it was too long, as did everybody else apparently, so he did it himself. Can you imagine anybody else singing this?

This record is Number One on my list of the Best Thirteen Records of 1959.


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