Marty Robbins

• NEW COLLECTION OF COLORED CLASSICS LPS

• 180 GRAM VINYL

• LIMITED EDITION

This quintessential release features Marty Robbins’ most celebrated album, originally issued on the Columbia label: Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs (1959).

With his cowboy albums, Robbins helped keep western music alive during the late ‘50s and early ‘60s, and the warm, affectionate spirit of this music illustrates why. Here you will find such country favorites as “El Paso,” “Big Iron” and “Cool Water,” and a classic version of “Billy the Kid,” among other western standards.

These songs are about work, love, travel, death, the beauty of the American West, and living life on your own terms (and paying the price for it). Robbins’ subject is mostly the West of myth and movie, which benefits from his ability as a storyteller – most of the tracks may tell tales heard or seen 100 times onscreen, but he makes listeners feel like this is the first time they’re hearing them, creating the excitement and anticipation of a poet in the middle of a spellbinding recital.

This sensational album has been remastered and packaged in this very special collector’s edition, which also includes 4 bonus tracks from the same period.

PERSONNEL:

• Marty Robbins (lead vocals and guitar), plus:

• Grady Martin, Jack H. Pruett, Hillous Butrum (g), Bob L. Moore, Floyd Chance (b), Louis Dunn (d), The Glaser Brothers (backing vocals).

Recorded between 1959 and 1960 at Bradley Film & Recording Studio, Nashville, Tennessee, except B7 (October 11, 1958) and B8 (October 3, 1957)

TRACKS:

• SIDE A:
• A1 EL PASO
• A2 IN THE VALLEY
• A3 THE MASTER’S CALL
• A4 RUNNING GUN
• A5 DOWN IN THE LITTLE GREEN VALLEY
• A6 UTAH CAROL
• A7 THE HANGING TREE (*)
• A8 THE STORY OF MY LIFE (*)

• SIDE B:
• B1 BIG IRON
• B2 COOL WATER
• B3 BILLY THE KID
• B4 A HUNDRED AND SIXTY ACRES
• B5 THEY’RE HANGING ME TONIGHT
• B6 THE STRAWBERRY ROAN
• B7 THE STREETS OF LAREDO (*)
• B8 FIVE BROTHERS (*)

• (*) BONUS TRACKS