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Summary: Marty Robbins,True Voice of the West
Comment: Listening to Marty Robbins sing these Gunfighter Ballads with each song one after another, Marty never fail's to paint a picture in your mind. I remember my dad playing these record's when we were kids,songs like El Paso,Big Iron,The Masters Call etc.. My dad just recently passed down these same original record's over to me for my collection.I always had the first Gunfighter Ballads on cd,and never could find the second installment until now,probably never in print.This is a German import,remastered,inner sleeve notes,what a classic compilation,should've been a double album.I was surprised reading the notes,Marty and the Glaser bros.recorded the first gunfighter record in one day,revealing how truly talented Marty Robbins really was and is with no doubt,the true voice of the west.
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Summary: Great Cowboy Ballads
Comment: Marty Robbins covers a range of timeless classics. As good today as it was when first released 40+ years ago. Hard to beat Big Iron, The Master's Call, Strawberry Roan.
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Summary: Marty Robins
Comment: Product is all that I expected. If anyone loves to hear Marty Robins, I'm sure they will enjoy this product.
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Summary: At las on CD!
Comment: 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.
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Summary: This album is Marty Robbins
Comment: This is not to say that Marty Robbins did not perform many more and just as great songs. However when you think of ether Marty Robbins or the songs on this album [Gunfighter Ballads & Trail Songs]. As with many I grew up with this album and as one reviewer protests, it is a little unnerving to have the order changed. However I used to skip around anyway. And this is the album to buy for Marty Robbins. You can supplement with his others when you feel the need to expand his collection
It is hard to imagine that you have not heard these songs at some point. So it feels funny describing them to you. These songs are truly ballads. They are not crying in your beer twanging songs. And aside from the country pacing and theme, are close to folk songs. Each song has a story and you are made to feel that you could be singing them your self. In the end you will be singing them.
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