Marty Robbins - Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs
CBS, 1959
I liked this one WAY more than I thought I was gonna. Everyone knows "El Paso," but I was expecting something cornier. There's a certain novelty quality to these cowboy songs, but the way Robbins sells them is masterful. What could be hokey is perfectly marries the time it comes from and the time it is trying to capture. The Robbins' penned tunes--"Big Iron," "El Paso," "The Master's Call," "In the Valley"--are unsurprisingly the most interesting/compelling tracks on the record. "Big Iron" in particular.
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