Marty Robbins - Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs [LP]

Cat. no: 291044
Format: LP
Barcode: 8436563185014
Release Date: 30 Jan 2026
Genre: Country

The complete album + 5 bonus track - limited edition pressing on 180g vinyl, includes updated liner notes by writer and BBC broadcaster, Brian Morton.

The great Marty Robbins was country music's 'Renaissance' man. He was a successful recording artist, stage performer, actor, author, songwriter, and a stock car racer to boot. Throughout his career, Robbins recorded country, western swing, pure honky-tonk, rockabilly, blues, Hawaiian music, calypso, and gospel. But overall, he was a prime example of the singing cowboy style. Songs like those on Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs established Marty Robbins as the master of this style of country music.

"I feel certain that Marty Robbins was truly one of God's gifted." - Merle Haggard

"The single most influential album of Western songs in post-World War II American music, Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs touched a whole range of unexpected bases in its own time and has endured extraordinarily well across the ensuing four decades." - **** 1/2 Bruce Eder, AllMusic

Tracks: BIG IRON / COOL WATER / BILLY THE KID / A HUNDRED AND SIXTY ACRES / THEY'RE HANGING ME TONIGHT / THE STRAWBERRY ROAN / THE STREETS OF LAREDO / FIVE BROTHERS / EL PASO / IN THE VALLEY / THE MASTER'S CALL / RUNNING GUN / DOWN IN THE LITTLE GREEN VALLEY / UTAH CAROL / THE HANGING TREE / THE STORY OF MY LIFE / DOGGONE COWBOY