1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die - #22. Marty Robbins - Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs (1959)

Marty Robbins - Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs (1959)


Track Listing

1. Big Iron
2. Cool Water
3. Billy The Kid
4. Hundred And Sixty Acres
5. They're Hanging Me Tonight
6. Strawberry Roan
7. El Paso
8. In The Valley
9. Master's Call
10. Running Gun
11. Little Green Valley
12. Utah Carol

Marty Robbins has a pretty smooth voice. Other than that it’s hard to say a lot good about this album. It’s not that I HATED it – it just seemed like it was the same song – over and over and over!! I read that it is the “single most influential album of Western songs in post-World War II American music”. That very well may be – but it’s just not my kinda thing. "El Paso" is a time worn classic that really just drags on and on. Actually kind of hard to believe radio would actually play such a long track in 1959! Not recommended.

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