The first record I recall is Marty Robbins’ “Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs.” We lived in a trailer my family dragged to road construction sites. What drew me was the thumping strum that ...

The genre-jumping Marty Robbins scored one of his biggest hits, and an early country-western crossover success, with 1959's Gunfighter Ballads And Trail Songs, a fine selection of Western-themed ...

Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs is the fifth studio album by Marty Robbins, released on the Columbia Records label in September 1959 and peaking at number 6 on the U.S. pop albums chart ...

Country music legend Marty Robbins scored 16 No. 1 hits. He also raced cars. ... What you might not know is that the voice behind "Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs" was also a racer.

What to Listen to This Week Marty Robbins’ “Gunfighter Ballads & Trail Songs” is one of the most consistently mind-blowing records to drop during the album-unfriendly ‘50s.

Marty Robbins was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame on Oct. 11, ... In 1959 he released an album called "Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs," which included several of his signature ...

I love Marty Robbins’s ‘Gunfighter Ballads.’ I love those kinds of records that take me on a journey.” “It all starts with a song or a title or a sound,” he continues, emphasizing each ...

This includes the immensely popular “Gunfighter Ballads And Trail Songs.” When he wasn’t touring or recording music, Robbins was competing on the race track.

Everything west of the Mississippi River was black and white. At least, that’s how it seemed to young Marty Stuart in the 1960s, watching programs like “Gunsmoke” and “Have Gun, Will ...

Robbins’ song was released in 1959 on his fifth album, Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs.The song tells the story of a man who breaks bad in his own way—he’s so smitten with a young woman ...