Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs

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Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs
Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs cover
Studio album by Marty Robbins
Released September 1959
Genre Country
Length 35:25 (1959 LP)
44:44 (1999 CD)
Label Columbia Records
Producer Don Law
Professional reviews
Marty Robbins chronology
Marty's Greatest Hits
(Apr 1959)		 Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs
(Sep 1959)		 More Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs
(Sep 1960)

Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs is an album released by Marty Robbins on the Columbia Records label in September 1959, peaking at #6 on the U.S. pop albums chart. It was recorded on April 7, 1959

It is perhaps best known for Robbins' most successful single, El Paso, a major hit on both the country and pop music charts. It reached Number One in both charts at the start of 1960, and won the Grammy Award for Best Country & Western Recording in 1960.

In 1999 it was re-released on the Legacy Records reissue label, with the tracks resequenced, and included three bonus tracks, including the full length version of El Paso.

[edit] Track listing (1959 LP)

Side 1:

  1. "Big Iron" (Robbins) – 3:56
  2. "Cool Water" (Bob Nolan) – 3:09
  3. "Billy The Kid" (Traditional) – 5:14
  4. "A Hundred And Sixty Acres" (David Kapp) – 1:40
  5. "They're Hanging Me Tonight" (James N. Low - Art Wolpert) – 3:05
  6. "The Strawberry Roan" (Traditional) – 3:25


Side 2:

  1. "El Paso" (Robbins) – 4:19
  2. "In The Valley" (Robbins) – 1:48
  3. "The Master's Call" (Robbins) – 3:05
  4. "Running Gun" (Tompall Glaser - Jim Glaser) – 2:10
  5. "The Little Green Valley" (Carson Robison) – 2:26
  6. "Utah Carol" (Traditional) – 3:13

[edit] Track listing (1999 CD)

Side 1:

  1. "Big Iron" (Robbins) – 3:56
  2. "A Hundred And Sixty Acres" (David Kapp) – 1:40
  3. "They're Hanging Me Tonight" (James N. Low - Art Wolpert) – 3:05
  4. "Cool Water" (Bob Nolan) – 3:09
  5. "Billy The Kid" (Traditional) – 5:14
  6. "Utah Carol" (Traditional) – 3:13
  7. "The Strawberry Roan" (Traditional) – 3:25
  8. "The Master's Call" (Robbins) – 3:05
  9. "Running Gun" (Tompall Glaser - Jim Glaser) – 2:10
  10. "El Paso" (Robbins) – 4:19
  11. "In The Valley" (Robbins) – 1:48
  12. "The Little Green Valley" (Carson Robison) – 2:26
  13. "The Hanging Tree" (Jerry Livingston - Mack David) - 2:50
  14. "Saddle Tramp" (Robbins) - 2:03
  15. "El Paso (Full Length Version)" (Robbins) – 4:38

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