Gunfighter Ballads And Trail Songs

i recognize a couple of songs. overall not bad. not my type of music. going 2 stars.

Classic cowboy!

The rootin'est, tootin'est cowboy in the wild west.

🤠 I liked this album more than I thought I would! Life was Hard in the Wild Wild West

Tbh lyssnade inte äns hela. Jag menar kanske lite najs men jätterandom genre och det känns som att det är barnvisor till nån Zorro film. Zorryyyyy (haha lmao?

Way better than expected. I quite enjoyed a few of these songs.

This album is fun, it’s easy, and it’s nostalgic for a time that never existed. It’s fan fiction for boomers that can’t ride a horse. Occasionally fun, but overall meaningless

Just some good Ole cowboy tunes that'll make you think twice before drawing your steel on ole Billy the Kid

Perfect album. So much fun!

Not one for me.

Those “Mexican maidens” are certainly doing…something to ol’ Marty Robbins and I’m starting to think the “big iron” he’s singing about is the one in his pants. It’s fun listening to crooning stories of a vague New Mexico or whatever he’s imagining of actual Mexico (old Mexico, if you will) but this does nothing for me. Pleasant, if boring, background music.

Been playing a lot of Red Dead Redemption so feeling particularly partial to cowboy music. At the end of the day it's quite fun, though it also feels impossible to divorce from the last 65 years of its recontextualisation and memeification, and gets pretty samey pretty quickly

bah franchement j’ai grave kiffé, the hanging tree était vraiment bien, j’ai passé un très bon moment

I couldn’t make it through the first listen, I thought this was so boring. On the second try, I appreciate his steady voice and the predictability of the tunes. There’s a main melody repeated in at least three separate songs, but given the right mood, I suppose I don’t mind. Very western ballads.

Better group of songs than all the music from those 1950s cowboy flicks.

I loved this so much, helped me chill out on a horrid morning. Big Iron ★★★★☆ A Hundred and Sixty Acres ★★★☆☆ They’re Hanging Me Tonight ★★★☆☆ Cool Water ★★★★☆ Billy the Kid ★★★☆☆ Utah Carol ★★★☆☆ The Strawberry Roan ★★★☆☆ The Master’s Call ★★★★☆ Running Gun ★★★★☆ El Paso ★★★★☆ In the Valley ★★★☆☆ The Little Green Valley ★★★★☆ The Hanging Tree ★★★★☆ Saddle Tramp ★★★★☆ Average Album Rating: 3.6/5.0 ★★★★☆

I don't think I need to mention El Paso, we all know how great of a song it is but there are plenty of other great Marty Robbins tracks here. My personal favorites are Cool Water and Big Iron. I think when people talk about "classic country" or "old good country" music they are usually thinking of the 'outlaw' style and I'm not going to argue with that but I also would love to see the sounds and styles of artists like Marty Robbins and Tom T. Hall make a come back as well.

50s gangsta rap.

Marty looks like he's made from playdough on the cover but I love this album

I'm really not a country fan, so I was ready to give this 1 star from the get go. But I figured I should at least listen to it, which I'm glad I did, as there were honestly a couple songs I had fun with. Still not a fan of country though.

Reminded me of the Gene Pitney albums I used to listen to with my mom when I was a kid. Sort of nostalgic and fun. I didn't listen to the whole thing.

I really like they’re hanging me tonight. I like the way he tells stories in his songs Strawberry roan is on this album In the valley is good too I like how the hanging tree connects to they’re hanging me tonight

Man hör absolut att musiken är äldre men det gör de inte dåligt, trevlig känsla skulle jag ändå säga och bra röst!

certainly something

Great Album, especially El Paso - The song has been a family favorite our whole our lives - a HUGE favorite. Songs are quite similar in how they're put together, their rhythms, etc. It is a cowboy ballad album after all.

I think I'm unable to assess this album properly as it is so soaked in nostalgia for me🫶 I finally gave songs other than El Paso the attention they deserve!!!! Genuinely really love this album, but I do wonder how I'd feel without our personal history haha......

would say this is a classic in our family, haven’t listened all the way through in a while, but i am quite enjoying i love cowboy tunes and i love ballads standouts: el paso - duh the masters call running gun big iron i like how the songs are short but still you get a lot of story with each one el paso will always make me think of driving and singing with addy and dad

Ohh water

Another low 4 from me. I didn't grow up hearing this sort of stuff and only encountered Marty Robbins a few years ago. So nostalgic even so. Utterly heart grabbing, lush and also awful. Great voice and melodies.

Very nice country like music, but with a little Spanish guitar

old fun for a little bit

Enhanced many a soundtrack this bad boy. Love that beginner vinyl collectors are obsessed with this $10 goodness.

Lk cool

Honestly wasn’t as bad as I thought. I may go back to some of these. However, I did think I was going crazy when El Paso played a second time. Odd choice.

Probably not the best person to judge this, but it seems like a very good version of what it is trying to achieve and I have to some there is an element of historical significance but I don't really have any contact to make that call. It's a bit samey but definitely created a vibe and I could definitely imagine listening to it driving through the desert in a cranky old car breaking bad style. The main thing that stood out was the quality of the vocals, a really big, rich, warm sound that is at odds with modern production and fantastic harmonies on the leads or backing vocals. Liked that there was over doing with some horns and wish they had included them on more tracks too break things up a bit. Nothing really bad to say about it but not my cup of tea and probably won't go back to listen again

loved it reminded me of hanging out with my nana and papa

There's outlaw country and there's this trollop.

One of my favorite country albums ever. 🤠 Favorite track: Saddle Tramp 4.5/5

Highlights - big iron, El Paso, they’re hanging me tonight

Tiresome.

Fun listen, but will say most of the songs start blurring together and sound very similar lol. Big Iron tho

What a delight! This is the exact type of album that makes me grateful I started listening through this. A sound I never would have sought out on my own, but I am so glad I listened. I’ll be going back for sure. Best Track: Big Iron

15 Gunfighter Ballads is 14 too many for this cowboy.

Cool ballada, true classics

Not for me

Love this album. Many memories

Fantastic country and western album! Timeless

The good, the bad, and the ugly ahh album. Cool

I got this right after Merle Haggard. I liked this better.

I really liked this. I'm a sucker for old time country & Western like Merle Haggard. This is classic.

loved it, i’ve been looking for a country album like this for a long time

Enjoyable, but repetitive. It is cohesive but maybe too cohesive. I could see putting this on as background music while cooking or doing something fun.

Not usual listening material but really enjoyed. El Paso and Hanging tree.

dnf i do not like it

Surprised at how much I enjoyed this album!!

Classic album, reminds me of my grandpa

Great southwestern music.

Classic songs, wonderful vocals

That was a tough one to get through. If you like traditional country, boarder line folk music, this one is for you.

So far my favourite country album on this list. Really loved the attitude on this one.

Recognized Big Iron and El Paso. Talked to dad about the album - his dad used to listen to old country like this.

surprisingly loved this. reminded me of my pap

Just for the Big Iron. If you played Fallout New Vegas you get it. Fuck Texas Red what a little bitch

A big fan of this type of music but the songs are a bit too similar to sit through the whole album.

More cliches than the fleas on an ole hound dogs back. Not my thing, the American West myth and surrounding bollix.

Already knew a couple songs on this that I loved but was severely disappointed with the rest. Many songs you couldn’t distinguish from each other..guy has some hang ups about his old girlfriends that will get him hung up sooner or later. 5/10

A couple times but mostly the same. Not a huge fan

BIG IRON ON HIS HIIIIIIIIP the meme song was the only one of these I knew. He's a good songwriter, the Robbins originals (El Paso, big iron, master's call) were the best ones. He's got a great voice and the backup vocals were nice too.

the guitar playing is gorgeous. Gorgeous vocals. I never thought I’d enjoy country music this much. The lyrics are fantastic and I felt like I was listening to a singing audiobook.

Carino, un album decisamente country - un genere che non avevo proprio mai esplorato, e già questo gli da merito. Però non posso dire che mi abbia entusiasmato, melodie un po' troppo ripetitive (giustamente, dato il genere) per i miei gusti

Enjoyed it as a one time listen, good storytelling that kept me interested but repetitive.

Good album for what it was…Gunfighter & Trail songs. His life might make a good bio pic.

Album title is fitting. I want to find myself in an old western town ready for a bar fight and duel. When I win, I'll take my spoils and hit the dusty trails. Great story telling and a great voice.

Country/western at its finest. Every song belongs in a spaghetti western

I had only heard big iron before listening to this album and the fact that the rest of the album is done in the same manner makes me really happy. Old school country-western music is a genre that doesn't really exist any more (and perhaps doesn't need to either) but listening through this with a smile on my face made me happy there was a time when this music was peak.

If this challenge has taught me anything, it's that country music doesn't have to be cringeworthy. Not that there hasn't been plenty of that on here but there are the odd albums that really demonstrate the other side of the genre outside of the influence of the ultra conservative Nashville establishment. Seeing the cover of this album, I didn't have high hopes. Another pretend cowboy spouting honky tonk toxic masculinity I figures. But this album really does remind me of the romanticism of the old West in a genuine way. It took the outlaw country stars like Johnny Cash to keep the spirit of this style of country alive, but this is the real deal. It's raw and rustic, evoking dangerous stories told around the campfire. If country still sounded like this, I'd call myself a fan.

An interesting yeehaw listen on xmas eve!

No-frills, old world musical storytelling that captures the attention, performed by a man with a voice of gold. What's not to love?

Favorite songs: Big Iron, Cool Water, The Master's Call, El Paso Sounds like Elvis

the kind of country i vibe with favorite tracks: big iron billy the kid the master’s call in the valley

Not my thing

Sikke en stemme <3 Swooooony. Peak cowboy vibes. Big Iron !! The Master’s Call !!

Вы можете удивиться, но его я тоже слышал. Я даже не могу вспомнить, когда, но эту странную обложку я помню. Я хорошо отношусь к кантри-музыке, я даже могу отличить некоторые песни Джонни Кэша друга от друга. Был даже странный период времени, когда я слушал блюграсс. Видимо, этот альбом я слушал, когда увлекался вестернами, иначе зачем бы я вообще слушал кантри шестидесятых. Хороший ли это альбом? Ну... да. Это кантри. Ковбой поёт о ковбоях. О мексиканских девушках, что играют на гитаре. О рейнджере с Большой Железякой. О несчастном Билли Киде. В общем, это что-то такое, что бесконечно далеко от русской души, но, как и любое искусство, в определённом смысле универсально. Просто нам привычнее свист пуль по степи, или меланхолия о городе, который мы видим во сне. Это не хорошо и не плохо. Просто рядом с появлением массовой звукозаписи у нас были совсем другие события, и пели потому о другом. А кантри иногда послушать стоит, знаете, сидя и глядя вдаль, где медленно бродят тёмно-серые тучи. И этот альбом -- совсем неплохой выбор, пусть и не отличается от многих. Итого: 3 из 5. Приятная музыка, как приятное пиво: легко пьётся, быстро забывается.

Cowboys.

Love the old country vibes this gives, very similar to colter wall. Will definitely want to listen again

Fun!

Howdy partner, how would you like some fun 50s storytelling.

Hard to get through

His story telling abilities are so phenomenal. It’s like you can envision yourself there.

Country as hell. This is what I want playing in my head every morning. I immediately played it over again upon finishing it. Saddle Tramp and Big Iron were my faves, but the whole thing is a classic.

🐴

This does scratch a very specific itch! If you want some good ol western music, songs about cowboys and showdown, sung by a Roy Orbison sounding cowboy ! This sounds like it must be it! Fav: Big Iron They're Hanging Me Tonight

Fuck it. Marty Robbins gets five stars.

Album No. 0094 on my list. “Yeee-haw”, I thought to myself when seeing the cover, and I dreaded listening to “Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs” a little bit. It just looked like a country music cliche album to me. And it is indeed, but I still enjoyed listening to it. There are some pretty good songs on this. Concerning the lyrics, you indeed get what you see: songs about the Wild West. Lots of cliches, but that doesn’t make the songs themselves bad. Besides, Marty Robbins’ singing serves the songs pretty well, he’s got a fine voice. I’m putting “Big Iron”, “Billy The Kid”, and “El Paso” onto my playlist. Solid album, 3/5 stars.

Veldig koselig musikk, perfekt gladmusikk

Oh Lord. Another Country album. It'll take a miracle for this to not be a one or two stars. Let's find out. To his credit, Marty does not have the acid-on-eardrums whining twang of most Country singers, and there's a lot less steel guitar and dismal violin moping than I expected. But that's about it for positives. Lyrically, it's the same old bullshit. Let me tell you a tale of [insert cowboy name], whose deeds involved [insert horses, guns, shooting, and being shot]. Repeat. You have to wonder just how much responsibility these Country singers must bear for the countless gun related deaths and atrocities which have plagued the USA for the past hundred years or so. There's no two ways about it - this music, and the genre as a whole, romantisizes firearms and the notion of a man getting shit done via his ability to wriggle his finger while pointing a weapon at someone. Good job, Marty. Now admittedly, there is a certain allure to the notion of spending your days and nights with a posse of like-minded men, roaming the plains, and law only onto yourselves. But two things: for as cool as that sounds, the music which typically encircles that ideal, is hot garbage. Utter shite. Tame, yarn-spinning, weak and fetid wank. Secondly - grow up. What a pile of childish nonsense. Anyone can imagine a life of non-responsibility. Woop-di-fucking-balls. So. Marty. He has a nice enough voice and his sound is not as apocalyptically grating as the genre usually is.

If you enjoy stories of gun duels and jealous cowboys, this album is going to be a delight. The tales that Marty tells are full of old Hollywood cowboy lore: Gunslingers hunting down bandits; cattle runs and stampedes; running from the law. I’ll be the first to admit that my expectations weren’t high when I saw the album. I was wrong. Between his wonderful vocals, the great backup harmonies, and solid guitar performances, this album is a delight. This isn’t just competent story telling; this is painting a picture with words and a guitar. Carrying on the long standing tradition of traveling troubadours, his cowboy country stories transport you to the untamed world of the Wild West. My only disappointment is that I was unaware of Marty Robbins earlier in life.

Harmless enough album of what I would call television cowboy songs. I’m not sure why it’s considered high-priority to hear this, but.. ok now I have.

A good listen and a good example of what I think country music started as. A lot of people seem to get shot.

Genre tick, it fits, plenty of material for cowboy films, fine enough once in a while ⭐⭐⭐

Got old real fast

Just no. I heard the one or two songs here that capture americana... but they just aren't worth the rest of the pretend glorified western BS.

I can appreciate this. The storytelling is amazing. The vocals are incredibly soothing and smooth. It’s not the type of music I regularly listen to, but I can see why he had a long, successful career. Kind of makes me think of my grandfather, and I believe I’d enjoy this on vinyl. ⭐️⭐️⭐️

This gave me such nostalgic old diner vibes. I really liked it

Yeah, I liked it.

3.5* lowkey good

Surprised how good this was. Great lyricism and storytelling

Not a country fan at all but I don’t mind the “old” country - especially ballads and those that tell a story.

Everyday when I wake up, this is the sort of album I hope doesn’t come up. I just don’t like this sort of thing. It’s repetitive and not something I would ever relate to. Marty’s voice was good but just not a fan.

There’s this road of tat shops in Great Yarmouth and one of them is a CD shop that used to have a huge Labrador asleep outside. It was an open shop front and it would either have an Irish comedian playing on the speakers or, as far as I can tell, this album on repeat. This is the first year I’ve not been exposed to this in ~20 but I’m confident this is still the case. Still not as cringe as some of the country we’ve had so far.

Schön, gemütlich, aber halt ein wenig langweilig.

Simon loved it. He had a nice voice

Dark themes never sounded so pleasant!

Great!

This was a very different listen for me - of course "El Paso" is a classic." Not my preferred genre, but I really appreciate the lyricism.

He’s got a good voice, but to me there’s nothing interesting going on musically. The songs mostly sound very similar and it’s not a style I dig. It also feels inauthentic, like he’s doing a schtick singing about being a cowboy. I know some(or all?) of these are traditional songs, but if he can’t sound genuine then how is the listener supposed to connect with the words?

This shit is fly

Couldn't finish the album, really not my style of music. Feels very generic and uninteresting

Another album that sounds the same. They’re a couple bangers on here!

One of those albums which just perfectly represents a time, place and culture. Great stories, told with a strong voice. Favourite tracks: Big Iron, They're Hanging Me Tonight, El Paso, The Hanging Tree

I’m a sucker for a simple old sound like this. Big Iron and El Paso are the bigger hits, but the rest of the album hits well for me.

Marty Robbins has the perfect voice for these types of ballads, this album is already a frequent repeat listen for me. Easy 5/5

A good collection of stories about guys getting shot

This far outdates me, but I really enjoyed it! The album's title is what it says it is, but the songs are so bouncy and catchy, and Marty's crooning so smooth, it never felt formulaic, even when it sometimes ventured that way. Most people know El Paso, but The Little Green Valley and The Master's Call are also solid.

My progression into proper country continues for a second day in a row.

Every song sounded the same and the rhyming pattern did my head in by the end. There were two songs I really liked but I don't think I'll revisit them much.

some bops but mot my type of music

7.5/10 - There is something inherent to humanity that loves a good story. It’s the reason why men like Homer are remembered millennia later. The story telling on songs like Utah Carol, They’re Hanging Me Tonight, The Master Call and Big Iron make this an album worth coming back to again.

Nah this is not for me. I feel like this belongs at Cracker Barrel or as a background song to an old western movie. An entire album was brutal to sit through. 3/10

I guess it's the style but this sounds like one song with 15 different versions of the lyrics. 3/5

Pretty cool. Not generally into this but liked it

Really not a country guy

Very elvis-ish

Love a good story teller. Voice really good too.

Gangsta

Just some western stuff

Such a smooth delivery, some really dark lyrics

Genre: Western An album that has continued to have long lasting popularity, with songs having featured in both Fallout and Breaking Bad, there is no way white boys missed this one. A sweet, of-the-times piece, Marty Robbins sings some sad, longing, and sometimes violent western tales, and does a very fine job. One of those records that both your grandma and grandson would love. I certainly did. 4/5

Here we have another classic country/western album that I liked way more than I would've expected going into it. It's not spectacular, but Robbins does a really good job of telling stories with the songs. He only wrote a portion of them, which knocks some points off for me. Even so, he puts on a fun show with the songs regardless of whether he did or didn't write them. And, dare I say, he makes the style seem pretty cool. It blows most modern country out of the water. Interestingly, I think this album is one that I'd rather listen to in full than just hear a song or two from. It just kind of works together, while on their own the tracks would feel a bit out of place. Really only El Paso seems like I would enjoy hearing it alone as much as here (El Paso because I've heard it alone before). That adds a little something to the "album" analysis for me. From my recs so far, it's probably about even with Buck Owens' I've Got a Tiger by the Tail for me by genre, though they are fairly different in content. This one felt more lyrically performative and descriptive, while Owens' had more of a musical focus and a bit more whimsy. While each works in its own sense, I do find Robbins' blander musical arrangements to be one of the bigger negatives for me here. So, I again find a classic western album that I like, though I again can't call great. Probably more of a preference thing, but the music falls short of what the lyricism and performance bring to the table. Also, the number of songs written by others is a detractor for me. Still, this is a great example of storytelling in music and is a very enjoyable listen. Overall: 3.4/5

I hate country and this was actually pretty good. Every song sounded the same but it wasn’t boring. Just calming and this guy has a great voice. My favourite song was El Paso but I didn’t have any actual stand out songs. Well overall this was listenable and I enjoyed it so I’ll give it like a 6.4/10 3.2/5

I would never have thought this was for me. What do I know though? I felt compelled to listen multiples times. What a fun listen. And the playlist following was great too. Also, I’ve heard El Paso before, no idea where. A surprising 4

Not really a thing I would seek out, but it's extremely pleasant to listen to. The RevOla remastered release also sounds great for a 66-year-old record.

This is #day477 of my #1001albumsyoumusthearbeforeyoudie challenge, and… it's been a while since this list threw some country at me. It's still one of my worst genres on this journey and will probably stay that way, but this record isn't the worst specimen. I'm just not into the western-cowboy thing and all that jazz. Let it be a 2 out of 5. Looking forward to #day478.

This is where Bob Dylan gets his cheesy ahh folk rock from. An early example of a concept album

My first thought was why does he look like a Goldeneye character. Then my next thought was hey it’s the song from New Vegas. This is an album for true gamers, which I think is what Marty intended

Country classic that is still loved today. Forget Sgt. Peppers, this is a real concept album, a nice collection of clearly Western inspired Country songs that invoke the feeling of being stranded in some small Western town in the Arizona wilderness. A lot of classic songs here, sung with a very clear sounding voice. It amazes me how good the production sounds on a lot of late 50's album, almost like the peak of analog recording. It gets a bit same-y if you listen to the entire album with bonus tracks on streaming, but it's a good listen nonetheless.

This is a pretty fun listen, although track 3 is a little wtf. Big Iron and The Master's Call are bangers.

This is one of my favorite albums. I've listened to Marty Robbins my whole life. I remember when he had a variety show on tv. He's the real deal. A true entertainer.

Excuse me while I whip this thing out. Definitely not my vibe, but I can appreciate it for those that like it.

"Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs" is the fifth studio album by American country and western singer-songwriter Marty Robbins. Country and Western are the Wiki-listed genres. We got both kinds, we got country and Western. I did not expect the Blues Brothers turning up twice on the bingo card this week. The album is critically cited for being the most influential album of Western songs in post World World II American music. The bandmembers included Robbins (vocals, guitar), Grady Martin (lead guitar), Jack Pruitt (rhythm guitar), Bob Moore (bass), Louis Dunn (drums, fiddle) and and backing vocalists Tompall & the Glaser Brothers and Bobby Sykes. The album reached #6 on the US Pop Albums Chart and #20 in the UK. In 2017, the album was inducted into the National Recording Registry by the Library of Congress for its artistic significance. The album opens with "Big Iron." Acoustic guitar and soft drum ticks. Robbins with an outstanding high tenor voice. Harmony backing vocals. Robbins describes the legendary dual of an Arizona ranger and the notorious Texas Red who meets his match. The fiddle is featured in the Bob Nolan cover "Cool Water." Strong harmonization as Robbins' vocals soar as he struggles with despair and searches for hope. The narrator struggles to tame his horse in the waltz-timed "Strawberry Roan." A comparison of life's challenges and taming his horse. A Spanish-sounding guitar is one of the highlights in "El Paso." Robbins falls in love with a Spanish girl. Outstanding vocal harmonies as Robbins' vocals approach mythical Roy Orbison levels. "The Master's Call" is a religious parable of a man with a life of sin who gets redemption. A softer song with a strumming guitar and soft backing vocals harmonies. This album is outstanding if just for Robbins' tenor voice which is on par with Roy Orbison and for the outstanding backing vocal harmonization. The stories are compelling true to the album title with gun duals, a religious parable and tales of outlaws, cowboys and hitmen and with themes of regret, jealously, loyalty, hardship, redemption and love. The music is sparse with acoustic guitars, soft drums and sometimes a fiddle. It's easy to hear the album's influence on country, folk and country rock music over the next two decades. This is an outstanding album well deserved of its historic placement. A very high recommendation.

songs to shoot legion to

I’m a sucker for these country western tales of badassery. Also, didn’t realize the Jerry Garcia (and the Dead) setlist staple El Paso came from Marty Robbins. I do feel like you need to be in a certain mood to listen to a whole album of these tunes but it was fun either way.

It shows that when things are kept simple they can still feel fresh for a long time. Nicely woven stories telegraphed in the title of the album.

Not to my taste, but encountering albums like this is exactly why im taking on this project. The album is a real time capsule - it captures (and played its own key role in) the popularity of the Wild West in the 50s and 60s. Great storytelling and well executed music. For my own taste though, Im really not a fan of cowboy cosplaying and the mythologization that this represents. And Marty Robbins also recorded a lot of music branding folks who were politically different from him as dirty communists - yay McCarthyism! But I still do appreciate the cultural importance of this album - the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of it.

I loved it???

Sometimes the best music is little more than a hoot and Gunfighter Ballads is a hoot and a half. Even when the subject matter is more serious Gunfighter Ballads is a feel-good album that leaves you in high spirits with a smile on your face - sometimes art has no higher purpose than to keep you company on a cold Monday morning as you drink your first cup of coffee and feel all but certain that it would be a good week because no bad week has ever started with the reassuring music of Marty Robbins. Happy trails young buck happy trails and lots of luck.

El Paso so good he put it on twice

Enjoyed this album, songs about outlaws, cowboys and gunslingers. Not a massive fan of country and western stuff but this was pretty good.

Why wasn't The Master's Call called Big Iron Part 2?

Good tunes thx!

I am surprised at how much I did enjoy this.

I can't say this is an album or artist I'll ever seek out again, but I get the appeal. I imagine Walt Disney bumping this as he planned out Frontierland.

Nice voice cool stories

An enjoyable album. Marty had a pleasant voice. His songs told a story. I liked the Spanish guitar in "El Paso". Worst song: "Cool Water" and two very emotional songs: "They're Hanging Me Tonight", and "Utah Carol", and best song: "El Paso".

I’m a big fan of cowboy spirituals, and this is just chock full of them. “Big Iron” or New Vegas fame is always. Banger. Cool water, El Paso , and the valley were also toe tapping fun. Great album for the cowboy frontier mood

Best: "Big Iron" Worst: "Billy the Kid"

The best generic business advice I normally hear is "Find your niche, and be the best at it." Marty Robbins seems to have taken that advice to heart with this highly specific album. 1959 was a damn good time to do it as well. I don't believe I've heard of Marty Robbins before this, but I've definitely heard a variety of these songs that are synonymous with "Western's" film soundtracks. I've probably heard "Big Iron" dozens of times. While it's not my cup of tea, I absolutely have to respect the hustle and the incredibly strong theme 3/5

A classic country album .

8/10 Big Iron and El Paso are classic country bangers. Love this whole album and reminds me of driving on country roads with my dad playing this album through his cassette tape to AUX from his gen1 iPod. Good times.

Good ol' New Vegas

This isn't the sort of thing I'd want to listen to very often, but it's pleasant, and obviously Big Iron is a banger. Realistically, these songs are all pretty samey - this album is a one-trick pony, but I do really enjoy that trick. Time to go play some New Vegas, as is the birthright of my people.

*looks at album title again* Yep, sure is. Jokes aside, the songs are very lovely and have a perfect traveling vibe. Big Iron outshines the rest of the album, unfortunately. El Paso and The Hanging Tree are some other nice songs.

Of course I must admit the album is notable to me due to the intro song, Big Iron and its memetic resurgence in the 2010s. Listening to it now, it brings me to the realization that cowboys are cool. And that's the intention of the album: it collects a lot of the 50s to 60s cowboy media tropes together, telling short form stories of what it's like to be a fictional, idealized white man back in the day. What it's like to be *cool*. And cowboys are cool. The album makes for easy listening, sitting well in the background. Marty has a really pleasant singing voice.

That was actually some pretty good country! Never tops the opening track though

This was an enjoyable enough listen, but nothing terribly exciting. Marty Robbins had a wonderful voice, but I feel like he, like many others in that era of music, hadn't quite figured out the album format yet. While every song when taken on its own does a good job of keeping your attention as Robbins guides you through these tales about outlaws and gunslingers, when listened to as an album they all just sort of blend into each other and nothing stands out. Maybe I'd have a more generous opinion of this album if I was more appreciative of country music in general, but as someone who tends to think of the genre as just "nice background noise," Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs didn't really do anything to change that opinion. Favourite tracks: Master's Call, El Paso, Big Iron

Pretty good cowboy bullshit songs! Limited upside for me, but these are the types of tunes I never mind when they turn up in a movie or something.

i'm by no means a country hater but i think i fall more on the folksy bluegrassy side of things. we all love big iron but the rest of this kind of sounded like the same song over and over again? at least it was a good song!

I know who Marty Robbins is. I do like some old-school Country/Western music. Big Iron - 9/10. Storyteller song. Good musicianship, clean voice. A Hundred and Sixty Acres - 8/10. Simple and clean tune. They're Hanging Me Tonight - 8/10. Great lament. Cool Water - 7/10. I like this a little less than the other tracks. Billy the Kid - 9/10. Interesting chord progressions. Subtly sophisticated and smooth. Utah Carol - 9/10. Simple, clean, and beautifully sad. The Strawberry Roan - 8/10. A Western Waltz is certainly a choice, and it fits the lyrics. The Master's Call - 7/10. A story of redemption makes for a good song. Running Gun - 7/10. Solid. El Paso - 10/10. This feels like a short movie, and I can see it playing in my mind. As perfect as a storytelling song gets. In the Valley - 9/10. Beautifully simple. The Little Green Valley - 8/10. He captures very well the feeling of coming home from some kind of journey. The Hanging Tree - 8/10. Simple and clean, well composed with the key changes for each verse. Saddle Tramp - 7/10. Clean and well done. Overall Rating - 4.07/5 (8.14/10). Marty Robbins has such a clean, recognizable voice. I wasn't expecting this album to be this good. I expected something solid, but this was better than I was expecting.

iznenađujuće dobro, ali ne nešto što bih slušao. prva pjesma bila super

No es para nada mi estilo pero eso no quiere decir que no pueda apreciar la fantasía de este álbum. Ha sido increíble estudiar en la biblio imaginándome que era una forastera leyendo el periódico en un bar perdido por el viejo oeste.

Yes lad

Enjoyed the first song but lost interest after that

Enjoyed that! Smooth assed country and every song felt like its own little short film ★★★½

A bit samey but alright

Enjoyed this way more than I thought I would. Brought me back to my Fallout playing days

Great stories and western music

It wasn't bad. It wasn't exciting. It sounds very dated, in fairness, it is very old! I know artists have a particular 'sound', but this album was 12 versions of the same song.

Robbins has a glorious voice and his enthusiasm for the material is catching, but I'm sorry this just isn't for me. As enjoyable as the narratives are, I can't beyond the ballroom style melodies and hyper-American subject matter.

I heard Johnny Cash do cover some of these, like "Cool Water", "El Paso", "Little Green Valley". Every song was a story. I can see how this a hit record in the early 60s, where every movie was a western and every boy wanted to be a cowboy and either wore a cowboy hat or a racoon skin hat.

Im so glad to see this album on the list! I think Marty Robbins might be the greatest male country vocalist of all time. The harmonies vibrato, and smooth voice, just AWESOME. I do also enjoy the nostalgic romanticized western scenes he sings about. As good as old country gets. Sure the music is a bit repetitive and lame, but it's about the voice and stories for this genre. El Paso is a top 5 greatest country song of all time for me. Great album, great voice, great storytelling.

An enjoyable light hearted listen.

This album took me back in time. It felt like I was a kid again sitting on the couch watching those old westerns with Dad. Other than that, not my bag.

CLASSIC. Always loved this record. It gets a lot of love for Big Iron, and rightfully so, but the whole album is chock full of wonderful tales of the wild west. Marty's singing perfectly captures the aesthetic he's going for, and the tunes are all catchy and fun. Despite the fun musicality of the record there's an underlying darkness that the stories don't shy away from. If you take the time to follow Marty along on the adventures he takes you on, you'll find death and despair at every corner; I appreciate this kind of sad, grounded presentation of the lawless west, which is often sanitized in the same way pirate stories are. *Heard before

Made me want to fall asleep.

Not a bad album at all. Older music and probably won’t make it into the listening rotation as an album but I do love “El Paso”. Nice song and very nostalgic of the Breaking Bad finale.

2.67, good storytelling and cool sound but I would never listen to this again it wasn’t interesting to me

Nossa, músicas para o programa "minha arma, minha vida"

Holy shit Marty is amazing. I am a bona fide Marty animal. Life for the marty over here. Marty down that’s what I say. Seriously this is great.

sounds great. he says fuck a lot, what a bad ass.

This album was made in the late 1950’s. Just like cats made at that time, it is stylish and quality but is dated for sure. To make an album like this today, it would be auto tuned and done with computers. The songs are repetitive but are crafted with care. I wish they would have removed a few tracks to tighten this up. Overall it’s above average.

Pleasant but meh

Surprise hit here. Fun songs that tell great stories. 4/5

Loved this. 4.5 for me

Fine, nice voice, but i won't gain anything from ever hearing this again

This is music for a Tarantino movie. You listen to any of this songs and you know that the villain is just about to come in and start a very bloody shootout. 3 stars.

mixed feelings, gotta be in the right mood

EVERY SONG IS A 10/10

Haven't heard of Marty before. I was hoping for some fun cowboy stuff but after couple of songs it started sounding quite repetitive and boring. I will go back to listening to Townes Van Zandt instead 2/5

If Nick Cave’s Murder Ballads was a country album. Or the other way around?

easy 5! great storytelling and simple twangy old boy country. Marty nailed it with this one. Also my introduction to Marty was Big Iron like everyone thats played Fallout, wish I came across his stuff earlier.

Love love love this album! I once bought an entire crate of records because this album was one of them. The rest were mostly junk but it was worth it for ol Martys cowboy songs. I love that most of the people in these songs are absolute fucking idiots. El Paso is literally about a guy who shoots another man in a bar because he’s talking to a woman the first guy… likes? She doesn’t even seem to really care about him at all and he just guns a man down. He’s down bad. Marty wrote lots of great albums but this is his best!

Right now I'd be sitting in a saloon, sipping whiskey and amusing myself with courtesans, not staring at a computer doing pointless work.

Brilliant old iconic album, some great tracks

Mitä helvettiä

I really loved this album and realized El Paso was very familiar from my childhood! The vocals were great throughout the whole album!

This was great! I don't like more modern country, but the older artists I can usually enjoy and this was a big surprise. I had heard El Paso before but the rest of this album blew me away. This will probably go into my regular listening rotation.

Da lo que promete. Bastante guapo el concepto de western hecho canción, no lo gestionaba. Un pelín repetitivo pero buenas vibes, entretenido y tal. Me lo reescucharé por la calle en un día en que me haga falta.

Haha this one took me by surprise. Was not exactly looking forward to this one but it turned into a very pleasant listen.

Pleasant county

Ehhh

Mera khel khatam hai the album. Quite fun ngl.

Fallout New Vegas music. 3.5 stars

Full of bangers!

Almost a 5, REALLY good, big iron is obviously great, and the rest was almost as good

Elvis does country. Not my bag

I instantly thought eh I won't like this, it's so old..but I actually enjoyed it. It's obviously old school but it felt so fun but with heavy topics. All the songs being about guns and shooting and cowboys felt interesting and a weird combo, I'm defo looking into the history of this album.

Not my thang.

Surprisingly Enjoyable.

Silky smooth vocals, killer guitar work, and old western gun fights. Out in the west Texas town of El Paso, I fell in love with this album. Classic.

Know “El Paso” from numerous movies and shows it is in. Can appreciate the album for what it is and the time it came from, but not for me.

Hell yes!

118 Para ser un disco country me gustó harto. Super clara la voz y se entendían harto las letras.

just the average "old" country music

-it wasnt bad, just not my style

It's a nice simple album. Not bad by any means. But also nothing unexpected or mindblowing.

Campfire songs. Great story songs written in the 1950s that you can still sing and relate to today. An album full of fun little western vignettes.

Yeah this is nice. Great sounding album. Big Iron and the Master's Call are standouts. No bad tracks, but I did find it to start getting a little tedious about halfway through. Definitely nails the cowboy vibe, but it's just not something I find appealing enough to want to sit through in its entirety

Cool cosplay and album title. Otherwise, nope

I absolutely loved this album. Very fun! Was very surprised to hear the song from fallout new Vegas pop up. This was a blast.

82/100. This was great. The songwriting and storytelling are absolutely spectacular, painting vivid pictures of the Wild West with charm and style. A classic country western album that still holds up.

Patrolling the Mojave almost makes you wish for a nuclear winter.

Great

6/10

Exactly what’s on the tin. Great stories great vibes

Musica de l'oeste...un 5

2.4 1x+ good enough just not my thing. El Paso added to liked songs regardless

Great voice and fantastic storytelling

lovely stuff

My dad used to listen to Marty. Liked it for the nostalgia.

I love this shit. Yeehaw

A fine Album by a great singer.

Solid Western soundtrack stuff, here.

Body count higher than a Quentin Tarentino film.

feel like im in a western

Not my style of music but can appreciate it for what it is. Favourite songs: Big Iron Rating 5.5/10

I know "El Paso" from the Grateful Dead.

Nice

Obviously Cool Water is the standout. The strawberry roan also stood out to me, partially because it’s the inspiration for Chappell Roan’s stage name. Overall, I love Marty’s careless lilt. It contributes so much to each and every story. Loved The Masters Call!! Lonesome Dove vibes. El Paso 😭

Gunfighter Ballads is not only a culturally significant album but it is a delight to listen to. Robbins not only wrote 4 of the songs on the album, all of which have become legendary folk songs, but his renditions of the other songs have become the versions that introduced post-War America to the Spirit of the West. Robbins' singing, storytelling, and strumming is earnest and yet performed with the ease of a Cowboy.

wtf?

Didn’t fancy so didn’t listen

Twangy!

Classic stuff from one of the greats! saw him live at the Grand Ol' Opry back '73... fun stuff.

Overall banger and an easy listen. Don't look for deeper meaning here. 4/5

Those sure were some Gunfighter Ballads And Trail Songs... Big Iron was a fun surprise and brought back memories of watching a friend playthrough New Vegas during COVID. I didn't dislike it by any means but it has a very antiquated and primitive structure throughout.

old school classic country. smooth voice. “el paso” is definitely an all timer.

I love this album but he’d be canceled with these lyrics today.

This pretty much gave me what I wanted and expected from the title. I used to have a few western albums (still love “Rawhide”) which is partially a throwback to the old black & white cowboy serials on TV as a kid combined with background music for the Deadland RPG. I found this much better than the Emmylou Harris country & western album the other day.

I did like bits of this, but it got very samey

I love Cowboy ballads. And this is one of my favourite albums

Any of these tracks alone would be fun, all of them in a row is a bit much for me though.

Classic!

This was a fun one. May go back and listen to if I need to feel a little silly lol

Неплохая музыка для фона, когда хочется чего-то из кантри. И песни не такие нудные, как часто бывает в этом стиле. Ставлю 4 звезды немного с натяжкой. 6 из 10.

This is the two hundred fifteenth album I’m rating. I've heard many great things about Marty Robbins, but I've yet to listen to a song. Adding to my Playlist - Big Iron, Cool Water, The Strawberry Roan, In the Valley, The Master's Call, and The Little Green Valley. Not Adding to my Playlist - Billy the Kid, A Hundred and Sixty Acres, They're Hanging Me Tonight, El Paso, Running Gun, and Utah Carol. All in all I liked 6/12 songs. I liked it but not as much as The Louvin Brothers which came out around the same time.

I wish I could listen to this album while riding a horse through a western desert town with my gun at my side. It’s a vibe

This is pretty competent and it's evident why it's a classic. Not really my thing outside one or two songs though. A bit too old fashioned.

Other than the fact that this kinda music makes me feel like I’m playing fallout (track 1 is actually featured on one of the games) I’m really not a fan. 16 short story’s about killing cowboys and/or being shot set over fairly forgettable western music.

Roy Orbison sings Nick Cave’s Murder Ballads.

Wow! Did not expect this to be as incredible as it was. From the first guitar twangs in Big Iron to the last beat in the repeated El Paso, I was hooked. Marty Robbins has the perfect voice for this country/western style, the music was a treat to listen to throughout, and the storytelling was top notch. There were several highlights on the album. Starting off with a bang, Big Iron is the best track on the album, fun story. Billly The Kid also has a good story going. They're Hanging Me Tonight is sad and sweet. The Strawberry Roan, The Master's Call, Running Gun, Utah Carol and El Paso are all great. No blanks in Marty's revolver, he's firing all shots off. Loved it! Best song: Big Iron

Very enjoyable, 7.5/10

Just not my style

Favorite Track: Big Iron

When I listen to country from before the Reagan Administration: I’d like to apologize. I wasn’t really familiar with your game.

You know, even when you throw away all the memes, this is a very solid album. It might feel a little one-note after a while, but I could enjoy every song on this album individually and would be happy to revisit each of them. That's a 5 in my book.

Tarantino western.

This is great. I learned about it from the prominent feature of El Paso on Breaking Bad and I've listened through this album a few times before. super consistent from start to finish and I know it went on to be a pretty influential album in the genre. I would love to know what Marty Robbins contemporaries sounded like and what the landscape of country and western music was when this was released in 1959.

Rating: 4.8/5 Short Review: Cowboy fatalism in pink dust and perfect harmony. Favorite Track: “El Paso” — a tragic novella disguised as a country hit; still one of the best story-songs ever written.

3.0 - Ok

Two GOATs in Big Iron and El Paso, but just a great album overall. Mid 3s.

This rules!

Chill, neutral listen for me.

The album starts off with an absolute heater in the form of big iron - outlaw country! They're hanging me tonight is a classic country break up /murder song. I like it. El Paso is a banger Plenty of slow boring country crooning on this album, too. E.g. cool water. Plenty of ballads and stories about being a cowboy, stampedes, cattle rustling, breaking in horses 🐎🐴. Still better than today's bro country.

Was excited to get this. Love how the guy on the cover looks like a PS2 era character model, haha. Fantastic western tinged country. Definitely the best country album I've gotten so far on the generator. Some slight shades of Fallout-core which is always welcome. El Paso is a standout as well. Didn't expect a 50's album to have explicit lyrics about getting shot and killed. Does start off with its best track, Big Iron, but everything else is really good too.

Gritty gangsta late 1950's country!

Makes you feel like a cowboy.

One of my favorites!

nice one

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Entspannte Country Musik. Gut für entspannte Wache. Ansonsten nichts besonderes.