KSRA FM Salmon Idaho

Gunfighter Ballads & Trail Songs

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Marty’s contagious love for these Old West songs made this 1959 LP one of his best-and one of the best country albums of its time. You get Marty Robbins Sings Hank Williams as a bonus; the hits El Paso; Big Iron , and The Hanging Tree join Marty’s takes on Kaw-Liga; Long Gone Lonesome Blues; I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry , and more!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