Gunfighter Ballads & Trail Songs/More Gunfighter Ballads & Trail Songs [Import]

Marty Robbins | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (August 24, 1997)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Columbia Europe
• ASIN: B00000IBJJ
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #9,975 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #15 in Music > Imports > Country
  • #36 in Music > Country > Cowboy
  • #58 in Music > Rock > Oldies & Retro > Rockabilly

Track Listings

1. Big Iron

2. Cool Water

3. Billy the Kid

4. A Hundred and Sixty Acres

5. They're Hanging Me Tonight

6. The Strawberry Roan

7. El Paso

8. In the Valley

9. The Master's Call

10. Running Gun

11. The Little Green Valley

12. Utah Carol

13. San Angelo

14. Praire Fire

15. The Streets of Laredo

16. Song of the Bandit

17. I've Got No Use for the Women

18. Five Brothers

19. Little Joe the Wrangler

20. Ride, Cowboy Ride

See all 23 tracks on this disc

Editorial Reviews

Twofer Of The Legendary Gunfighter Albums From 1959 And 1960. His Finest Works.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

14 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Home on the Range was never this good!, March 20, 2002

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F. A. Stephenson (UK) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Gunfighter Ballads & Trail Songs/More Gunfighter Ballads & Trail Songs (Audio CD)

Thanks to a friend who asked "who was it that sang El Paso?" has prompted me to take the opportunity to rediscover, after more than 30 years, a singer who put the 'Western' in Country Music. Anyone who enjoys Country and Western should not be without a copy of this marvellous collection of sounds and images of the American 'wild' west. This is a truly classic collection that gives you a story with every song from an exceptional talent singing with a purity that is rare. His gunfighter ballads are the stuff of dreams that transport the listener to the Old West with 'El Paso', 'Big Iron' and 'Cool Water' to name but a few in a selection brimming with great songs.

This is truly great value and is well worth a purchase that will bring you hours of pleasure. I strongly recommend it! Buy it and like me you will not be disappointed.

Postscript:
If you would like to add other albums to your collection, then you cannot go far wrong by choosing compilations such as "The Drifter" which include, amongst others, the amusing 'Cowboy in a Continental Suit' and a saloon showdown in the superb 'Mr Shorty'. Marty's voice suited most kinds of music and you will find in "The Essential Marty Robbins" with its Rock-A-Billy, Hawaiian and even Jazz-influenced music, the versatility that make it almost impossible to choose favourites.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Two classic western albums, December 11, 2003

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Peter Durward Harris "Pete the music fan" (Leicester England) - See all my reviews
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Marty recorded many different types of song but he was particularly good at western songs. For those who can afford it, Bear family have released a boxed set containing all Marty's western songs, but the two albums included here contain many of his best western songs.

On this set, you will find Marty's covers of the classic cowboy songs Cool water and The streets of Laredo, but Marty chose to avoid most of the obvious songs. Instead, he wrote some songs himself and recorded a lot of great but obscure songs. Of the songs that he wrote, El Paso is by far the most important. It was a huge international hit and if you are thinking of buying this collection, you probably know this song already.

The remaining songs all tell stories of life in the west in the years following the American civil war. We all know that you can't believe what Hollywood portrays in western movies. The origin of many of these songs is unknown but the picture they paint sounds credible.

Marty was, perhaps, the greatest western singer of them all (although Michael Martin Murphey is another contender for that title) - this collection shows him at his best.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars At las on CD!, November 8, 2005

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Dr R. J. Lofaro (AL) - See all my reviews
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I had all 3 albums that make up most of this CD...in the late 1950's /early 1960's. Marty was in great voice; the arrangments are superb...and, if you can listen to these bittersweet, haunting ballads without having your heartstrings plucked...and, eyes misting up..you are stone dead. These are about another time and another place...and,one where Life was often harsh, often all-too-short, but, it was lived full-up, not talked about and analyzed ad nauseum. This time may have not have existed as Marty sings about it, but the strength and purity of the messages are timeless. Oh, yes...for the secularists out there: there are some religious aspects in some of the songs. But, having been in Montana and the Dakotas, you can almost feel a Presence there.