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Music CD - Marty Robbins: Gunfighter Ballads & Trail Songs
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Music CD: Gunfighter Ballads & Trail Songs
Artist: Marty Robbins
List Price: $11.98
Our Price: $6.03
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Manufacturer: Sony
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Tracks:
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1. Big Iron
2. A Hundred And Sixty Acres
3. They're Hanging Me Tonight
4. Cool Water
5. Billy The Kid
6. Utah Carol
7. The Strawberry Roan
8. The Master's Call
9. Running Gun
10. El Paso
11. In The Valley
12. The Little Green Valley
13. The Hanging Tree
14. Saddle Tramp
15. El Paso (Full-Length Version)
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0074646599624
Format: Extra tracks
Label: Sony
Manufacturer: Sony
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Sony
Release Date: 1999-10-19
Studio: Sony
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Spotlight customer reviews:
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Customer Rating:
Summary: The Ultimate C & W Album
Comment: When I Listen To What Passes For C&W Music Nowadays, I GET Depressed.Most Of The New Breed Of Country Singers Are Just Pseudo Rock Singers Latching Onto A Lucrative Market.Marty Robbins Would Be In The Top Five Of My All Time Greats.Gunfighter Ballads Has To BE In The Top Three Of The Greatest Country Albums Ever Recorded.The Marvellous Acoustic Spanish Guitar Sound That Accompanied Most Of His Gunfighter Ballads Is So Refreshing.Being Around Awhile Needless To Say I'VE Practically All His Albums
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Summary: All-time classic
Comment: This is one of the great classic country crossover albums. If you like cowboy songs, this one of the best, if not the best album ever recorded.
Marty Robbins wrote the best songs on this disc, and has one of the great voices of 1950s Country music.
El Paso and Big Iron alone make this a worthwhile purchase.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Great cd
Comment: This is a great cd for any classic country collection. I grew up listening to this cd when it was on a record. This is Marty Robbins at his best...
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Summary: Tired of C&W songs where you can't understand the words?
Comment: Well, let me start with this fact. I can not stand the new Country & Music Artists of today. What words are there? Comes across to me that they don't know the words to the song. So they pronounce the words they do remember and the rest is making vocal sounds only! Not so with Marty! You can understand each and every word that came out of his mouth. The songs he sings make it very clear, easy to follow & understand. His songs which tell a story like "El Paso" - flow easily from beginning to end like reading a good book.
It is easy on the ears for relaxation. Your mind can go into a stage of dreaming and being there watching the story play out.
I certainly hope that the new country music stars will look back and see how performers such as Marty Robbins, Jim Reeves, Eddy Arnold and The Statler Brothers (with Lew De Witt - not Jimmy Fortune) sang. You never saw them sing like they were trying to swallow a microphone. This record lets you go back to the "good ole days" of Country Music.
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Summary: Some of the best of Marty Robbins
Comment: I have the original record album and it is almost worn out from so much playing so we were glad to find it on CD and love to listen to it.
I would recommend it to any Marty Robbins' fan.
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Editorial Reviews:
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A lonely Westerner in Nashville, Marty Robbins salved his soul by cutting an album (in one afternoon) of mostly self-composed cowboy ballads. One of them was a four-and-a-half-minute epic, "El Paso," that broke every rule of Top 40 programming to become a No. 1 pop and country hit in 1960. Robbins was arguably the most surefooted and accomplished singer in all country music, and that was never more obvious than on these Western ballads performed to often breathtaking perfection with a very small group and a vocal trio. Other titles include "Big Iron" (also a Top 30 hit), "Running Gun," and Western classics like "Cool Water," "Billy the Kid," and "The Strawberry Roan." Three extra tracks flesh out the 1999 release, including "Saddle Tramp" (the B-side of "Big Iron") and "The Hanging Tree" (title song from the 1959 Gary Cooper Western). --Colin Escott
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