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Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs
Released: 1999
Label: Sony Music Entertainment, Inc.

From our Purveyor of Music:
This is a "must have" for your Western music collection. We never tire of listening to this album. A true Western classic.

From the CD liner notes:
Though he recorded a wide variety of material during a three-decade career that found 47 of his singles in the Country Top Ten (13 of which crossed over to Billboard's Pop Cart), Marty Robbins (1925-1982) is still best known for his story-songs of the West. The "concept" album Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs, from 1959, was his best-selling - and one of his best - LPs, spending 36 weeks on Billboard's Album chart and reaching number six.

The record's success was in part due to the presence of Robbins' greatest hit, El Paso, a romantic tale of a young cowboy's fatal attraction to a cantina temptress. Written by Robbins and sung impellingly with just the slightest catch in his crisp tenor-to-baritone voice, El Paso made it to the pinnacle of both the Pop and Country surveys.

With the legendary Nashville (and Robert Johnson) producer Don Law at the helm, the newly-remastered Gunfighter Ballads now includes both the 45 and full-length versions of El Paso plus twom more bonus tracks that only enhance the original.

Click any title for a song sample.

TRACK LISTING

00 Album Sample

01 Big Iron

02 A Hundred And Sixty Acres

03 They're Hanging Me Tonight

04 Cool Water

05 Billy the Kid

06 Utah Carol

07 The Strawberry Roan

12 The Little Green Valley

13 The Hanging Tree

14 Saddle Tramp

15 El Paso