WAXTIME PICTURE DISC 180GRAM VINYL LIMITED EDITION PINK VINYL MARTY ROBBINS: GUNFIGHTER BALLADS AND TRAIL SONGS This quintessential release features Marty Robbins most celebrated album, originally issued on the Columbia label: Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs (1959). With his cowboy albums, Robbins helped keep western music alive during the late 50s and early 60s, and the warm, affectionate spirit of this music illustrates why. Here you will find such country favourites as El Paso, Big Iron and Cool Water, and a classic version of Billy the Kid, among other western standards. These songs are about work, love, travel, death, the beauty of the American West, and living life on your own terms (and paying the price for it). Robbins subject is mostly the West of myth and movie, which benefits from his ability as a storyteller most of the tracks may tell tales heard or seen one hundred times onscreen, but he makes listeners feel like this is the first time they are hearing them, creating the excitement and anticipation of a poet in the middle of a spellbinding recital. This sensational album has been remastered and packaged in this incredibly special collectors edition, which also includes 4 bonus tracks from the same period. MARTY ROBBINS, lead vocals and guitar, plus: Grady Martin, Jack H. Pruett, Hillous Butrum (guitar), Bob L. Moore, Floyd Chance (bass), Louis Dunn (drums), The Glaser Brothers (backing vocals). Produced by Don Law. Recorded between 1959 and 1960 at Bradley Film & Recording Studio, Nashville, Tennessee, except B7 (October 11, 1958) and B8 (October 3, 1957).