Paso [Long Version - Mono] - Marty Robbins, Robbins, Marty
Cool Water - Marty Robbins, Nolan, Bob [1]
In the Valley - Marty Robbins, Robbins, Marty
Running Gun - Marty Robbins, Glaser, Jim
Big Iron - Marty Robbins, Robbins, Marty
The Master's Call - Marty Robbins, Robbins, Marty
The Little Green Valley - Marty Robbins, Robison, Carson
A Hundred and Sixty Acres - Marty Robbins, Kapp, Dave
Billy the Kid - Marty Robbins, Traditional
The Strawberry Roan - Marty Robbins, Traditional
They're Hanging Me Tonight - Marty Robbins, Lowe, Jimmy
Utah Carol - Marty Robbins, Traditional
Saddle Tramp - Marty Robbins, Robbins, Marty
She Was Young and She Was Pretty - Marty Robbins, Robbins, Marty
The Streets of Laredo - Marty Robbins, Traditional
Little Joe, the Wrangler - Marty Robbins, Traditional
I've Got No Use for the Woman - Marty Robbins, Traditional
Billy Venero - Marty Robbins, Traditional
This Peaceful Sod - Marty Robbins, Glaser, Jim
Five Brothers - Marty Robbins, Glaser, Jim
San Angelo - Marty Robbins, Robbins, Marty
Ballad of the Alamo - Marty Robbins, Tiomkin, Dimitri
The Hanging Tree - Marty Robbins, David, Mack
Track Listings (25) - Disc #2
Jimmy Martinez - Marty Robbins, Robbins, Marty
Ghost Train - Marty Robbins, Babcock, Joe
Song of the Bandit - Marty Robbins, Nolan, Bob [1]
Wind - Marty Robbins, Nolan, Bob [1]
Prairie Fire - Marty Robbins, Babcock, Joe
My Love - Marty Robbins, Robbins, Marty
Ride Cowboy Ride - Marty Robbins, Emerson, Lee
Red River Valley - Marty Robbins, Traditional
The Bend in the River - Marty Robbins, Robbins, Marty
When the Work's All Done This Fall - Marty Robbins, Traditional
Abilene Rose - Marty Robbins, Hosdale, J.B.
Dusty Winds - Marty Robbins, Babcock, Joe
Old Red - Marty Robbins, Robbins, Marty
Doggone Cowboy - Marty Robbins, Babcock, Joe
When the Work's All Done This Fall - Marty Robbins, Traditional
Small Man - Marty Robbins, Perry, Bill [1]
The Red Hill of Utah - Marty Robbins, Robbins, Marty
Tall Handsome Stranger - Marty Robbins, Dorrough, Henry
The Fastest Gun Around - Marty Robbins, Glaser, James R.
San Angelo - Marty Robbins, Robbins, Marty
Old Red - Marty Robbins, Robbins, Marty
Man Walks Among Us - Marty Robbins, Robbins, Marty
Johnny Fedavo - Marty Robbins, Babcock, Joe
The Master's Call - Marty Robbins, Robbins, Marty
El Paso [Short Version - Stereo] - Marty Robbins, Robbins, Marty
Track Listings (26) - Disc #3
The Cowboy in the Continental Suit - Marty Robbins, Robbins, Marty
I'm Gonna Be a Cowboy - Marty Robbins, Robbins, Marty
Cry Stampede - Marty Robbins, Johnson, Bill [3]
Oh Virginia - Marty Robbins, Robbins, Marty
Meet Me Tonight in Laredo - Marty Robbins, Cordle, Mabel
Take Me Back to the Prairie - Marty Robbins, Sykes, Bobby
The Wind Goes - Marty Robbins, Robbins, Marty
An Old Pal, A Real Pal - Marty Robbins, Robbins, Marty
Feleena (From El Paso) - Marty Robbins, Robbins, Marty
Never Tie Me Down - Marty Robbins, Robbins, Marty
Lonely Old Bunkhouse - Marty Robbins, Robbins, Marty
Night Time on the Desert - Marty Robbins, Robbins, Marty
Cottonwood Tree - Marty Robbins, Sykes, Bobby
Mr. Shorty - Marty Robbins, Robbins, Marty
When It's Lamplighting Time in the Valley - Marty Robbins, Traditional
Is There Anything Left - Marty Robbins, Robbins, Marty
Tonight Carmen - Marty Robbins, Robbins, Marty
Waiting in Reno - Marty Robbins, Pruett, Jack
The Mission in Guadalajara - Marty Robbins, Emerson, Lee
Love's Gone Away - Marty Robbins, Binkley, Bob
Bound for Old Mexico - Marty Robbins, Lebsock, Jack
Chapel Bells Chime - Marty Robbins, Binkley, Bob
Don't Go Away Senor - Marty Robbins, Sweeney, Jimmy
In the Valley of the Rio Grande - Marty Robbins, Russell, A
(The Girl With) Gardenias in Her Hair - Marty Robbins, Byers, Joe
Spanish Lullaby - Marty Robbins, Johnson, Bill [3]
Track Listings (23) - Disc #4
That Silver Haired Daddy of Mine - Marty Robbins, Autry, Gene
Chant of the Wanderer - Marty Robbins, Nolan, Bob [1]
(Ghost) Riders in the Sky - Marty Robbins, Jones, Stan [Countr
South of the Border - Marty Robbins, Carr, Michael [Song
Sundown (Ballad of Bill Thaxton) - Marty Robbins, Sykes, Bobby
Queen of the Big Rodeo - Marty Robbins, Robbins, Marty
Ava Maria Morales - Marty Robbins, Robbins, Marty
The Outlaws - Marty Robbins, Robbins, Marty
El Paso City - Marty Robbins, Robbins, Marty
I'm Kin to the Wind - Marty Robbins, Robbins, Ronny
Trail Dreamin' - Marty Robbins, Nolan, Bob [1]
She's Just a Drifter - Marty Robbins, Robbins, Marty
Way Out There - Marty Robbins, Nolan, Bob [1]
The Ballad of the Small Man - Marty Robbins, Robbins, Marty
Tumbling Tumbleweeds - Marty Robbins, Nolan, Bob [1]
San Angelo - Marty Robbins, Robbins, Marty
Pride and the Badge - Marty Robbins, Robbins, Marty
All Around Cowboy - Marty Robbins, Robbins, Marty
Restless Cattle - Marty Robbins, Robbins, Marty
The Dreamer - Marty Robbins, Robbins, Marty
Lonely Old Bunkhouse - Marty Robbins, Robbins, Marty
Ava Maria Morales [Undubbed] - Marty Robbins, Robbins, Marty
Shotgun Rider - Marty Robbins, Winters, Dennis
Although he lived most of his life in Nashville, Marty never left the west behind. He proved that he could masterfully reinterpret classic western ballads, as well as write new ones every bit as good as the old ones. His w... more »estern recordings for both Columbia and MCA are complete here, spanning the years 1958-1979. The set starts with The Hanging Tree, then encompasses the best-selling Gunfighter Ballads albums that included such classic tracks as El Paso, Big Iron, Tonight Carmen, Mister Shorty, and The Cowboy In The Continental Suit, as well as the El Paso sequels like Feleena From El Paso and El Paso City. Marty mixed self-composed epics with many of the greatest vintage western songs to create a tapestry of music that powerfully evokes the old west and the west in transition.« less
Although he lived most of his life in Nashville, Marty never left the west behind. He proved that he could masterfully reinterpret classic western ballads, as well as write new ones every bit as good as the old ones. His western recordings for both Columbia and MCA are complete here, spanning the years 1958-1979. The set starts with The Hanging Tree, then encompasses the best-selling Gunfighter Ballads albums that included such classic tracks as El Paso, Big Iron, Tonight Carmen, Mister Shorty, and The Cowboy In The Continental Suit, as well as the El Paso sequels like Feleena From El Paso and El Paso City. Marty mixed self-composed epics with many of the greatest vintage western songs to create a tapestry of music that powerfully evokes the old west and the west in transition.
"It was time to move from a rag-tag set of tattered Robbins' LPs to digital. This Bear Family 4-disc set seems to be an exhaustive collection of his western ballads including multiple versions of El Paso (long mono and short stereo). The re-mastering is excellent. I didn't specially want the handsome box or nice booklet, but those might be important for others.
To complement this set I got the 2-disc The Essential Marty Robbins which includes the other aspect of Robbins' music, like Devil Woman and A White Sport Coat. It also has quite a few of the western ballads, but not enough for me."
Golden Voice Immortal
Strawgold | Wyoming | 05/26/2010
(5 out of 5 stars)
"I first listened to this splendid album while visiting friends that live just outside of Tucson. Knowing of my passion for "The Last Cowboy Songs" (that tune actually sung by Ed Bruce), they brought it out and we sat lost in it as it played in the background during the entire evening. This album of campfire and gunfighter "stories set to music" is, without reservation what I consider to be the best of the best of the genre. Marty Robbins had a beautiful, lilting voice, enhanced by a touch of power, a touch of sorrow. Two of the songs that were sung to me in my childhood that I could never forget and that I had searched for for years appear on this set - "Billy Venero", the song of love, selflessness and death of a cowhand determined to save his sweetheart from the hand of the Apaches during the time of the old Southwest Indian wars. Another, "Restless Cattle" is a hauntingly lonely ballad telling of the relationship between the cowboy and the cattle that made up his universe - it was not a "job" to them - it was their chosen life.
There is only a rare handful of talents the size of Marty Robbins and it takes a special breed to bring this kind of music to life; it must come from the heart. The entire album is filled with memories spun out of tragedy and triumph, tales of saddle tramps and heroes, impossible love lost and yearned after; love and respect for the horse; and reminders of the time gone by. "The Strawberry Roan", "Cool Water", "Tumbling Tumbleweeds" and of course, "Streets of Laredo" are some of the enduring classics interspersed with the lesser known but nonetheless enchanting in their own right songs that Marty Robbins brought to immortality by his unerring ear for music and the selection of the right pieces."