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 ...

The genre-jumping Marty Robbins scored one of his biggest hits, and an early country-western crossover success, with 1959's Gunfighter Ballads And Trail Songs, a fine selection of Western-themed ...

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 ...