Country western balladeer Marty Robbins—armed with a crystalline ... his nearly 40-year career saw a lot more action than his song stories on the range. Robbins may have blazed a trail for ...

Instead, the city of El Paso, Texas, adopted a song written by a local resident. Marty Robbins was quoted as saying, "I always wanted to write a song about El Paso, because traditionally that is ...

but a song with nine verses and three bridges that ran well over four minutes wasn’t the norm either. So when Marty Robbins showed up with “El Paso,” which clocked in at 4:37, the powers ...

The song has featured in more than 5,000 different uploads. “There’s something really resonant in his voice that people respond to,” Janet Robbins, Marty’s daughter, told me over the phone.