Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs [Remaster] by Marty Robbins

Personnel: Marty Robbins (vocals, guitar); Thomas Grady Martin, Jack H. Prett (guitar); Bob Moore (bass); Louis Dunn (drums); The Glaser Brothers (background vocals). Producer: Don Law. Reissue producer: Al Quaglieri. Recorded at Bradley Film & Recording, Nashville, Tennessee on April 7, 1959. Includes liner notes by Billy Altman. Digitally remastered by Joseph M. Palmaccio (Sony Music Studios, New York, New York). This is part of Legacy's American Milestones series. Country singer Marty Robbins recorded many different kinds of music in his career, from rock & roll to Hawaiian love songs, but it's with this collection (particularly with the hit song "El Paso") that he is most remembered. This beautifully remastered 1960 album is a combination of traditional songs and Robbins' originals, all with themes of life in the Old West, or story-songs with a Western setting. This is not country music per se--there's no twang or pedal steel guitar to be heard--but clean-picked acoustic guitars (with elements of Ame...