More Gunfighter Ballads & Trail Songs – MARTY ROBBINS***

San Angelo/Prairie Fire/Streets Of Laredo/Song Of The Bandit/I’ve Got No Use For The Women/Five Brothers/ Little Joe The Wrangler/Ride Cowboy Ride/This Peaceful Sod/She Was Young & She Was Pretty/My Love

More Gunfighter Ballads & Trail Songs was the follow up album to the 1959 original in which balladeer Marty Robbins again puts the western back into country & western. (US:21)

“This album picks up where the first left off - great stories, versatile singing, and a flawless collection of songs. I suppose you could criticize this album for recycling the first one's concept, but when the music is as good as this, I'd just prefer to have twice as much to enjoy.”

“One wouldn’t expect the sequel to measure up to an original but this is every bit as good as the classic predecessor and identical in style. Outstanding singing – technically excellent, effortlessly good, perfectly phrased. This is definitely folk music with its emphasis on word, story, tougher times and tradition, acoustic instrumentation and recycled melodies.”

“Marty was in great voice; the arrangements are superb. If you can listen to these bittersweet, haunting ballads without having your heartstrings plucked you are stone dead.”

“Marty Robbins was not only a great western ballad writer and singer, he was a real rarity with his style and sound. A dedicated man who felt what he wrote and sang, who gave all he had to everything he did.”

"What can you say, Marty Robbins at his best. No one epitomizes western music like he does. Notice that I said western music, not to be confused with country music. The songs are classics of that genre and only Marty can do them justice.”

“When Marty Robbins wrote and recorded his original Gunfighter Ballads, country & western music in America had pretty much abandoned its western side and was deeply sunk into the smooth country side of its personality. Nobody sang western songs anymore and certainly no one wrote western songs anymore. The sequel album, More Gunfighter Ballads, continued the tradition."