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Essential Gunfighter Ballads & More

Marty Robbins
2 discs

0. DISC 1:
1. El Paso
2. Cool Water
3. Big Iron
4. Billy the Kid
5. They're Hanging Me Tonight
6. Hundred and Sixty Acres, A
7. Strawberry Roan, The
8. In the Valley
9. Master's Call, The
10. Running Gun
11. Little Green Valley, The
12. Utah Carol
13. Tomorrow You'll Be Gone
14. I'll Go on Alone
15. I Couldn't Keep from Crying
16. Pain and Misery
17. Lovesick Blues
18. I'm so Lonesome I Could Cry
19. Moanin' the Blues
20. Have I Told You Lately That I Love You?
0. DISC 2:
1. That's All Right
2. Singing the Blues
3. Knee Deep in the Blues
4. Story of My Life, The
5. White Sport Coat, A (And a Pink Carnation)
6. She Was Only Seventeen (He Was One Year More)
7. Kaw-Liga
8. Hanging Tree, The
9. Long Tall Sally
10. Maybelline
11. Just Married
12. Wedding Bells
13. Shackles and Chains
14. Hands You're Holding Now, The
15. Then I Turned and Walked Slowly Away
16. Waltz of the Wind
17. Judy
18. Sweet Lies
19. Crying Steel Guitar Waltz
20. Song of the Islands
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Additional Info

Manufacturer Part Number (MPN): 2009095
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Photographer: Frank Driggs.
Primo Records is a compilation label from the Czech Republic; they assemble solid collections of big name American roots artists primarily from the genres of country, blues, soul, and rhythm & blues, and sell them for budget prices. This set presents Marty Robbins signature Gunfighter Ballads album from 1959 with its chart-topping hit "El Paso," and packages it with most of his singles from the '50s, going as far back as 1953 with "I'll Go on Alone," which hit the number one spot, and its follow-up, "Crying Cause I Love You." His historically significant covers of Hank Williams' "I'm so Lonesome I Could Cry" and "Kaw-Liga" are here, as are some of his rockabilly and rock & roll hits including "White Sport Coat and a Pink Carnation," and his readings of Chuck Berry's "Maybelline" and Little Richard Penniman's "Long Tall Sally." In all, there are 40 cuts that run the range of Robbins' wildly diverse gift for interpretive song inside and outside of the country tradition, given his knack for nailing hit after hit with his singles during the period. Given the price, this is preferable to many other compilations that rely too heavily on the gunfighter songs and/or ballads he recorded after 1959. Certainly, Robbins had many hits in the '60s and even into the `70s, but these '50s sides are inarguably among the best in his catalog. ~ Thom Jurek