Artist: ROBBINS??MARTY</br>genre: Country & Western</br>product type: Compact Disc</br>Release Date: 19-OCT-1999</br>Returns Accepted?: Yes</br></br>Product Description</br></br>We've sold a ton of Marty's legendary 1959 concept album about the Old West on expensive import?? but now it's out domestically with the rare B-sides The Hanging Tree; Saddle Tramp ?? and the long version of El Paso joining such classics as Big Iron and Billy the Kid !</br></br>Amazon.com</br></br>A lonely Westerner in Nashville?? Marty Robbins salved his soul by cutting an album (in one afternoon) of mostly self-composed cowboy ballads. One of them was a four-and-a-half-minute epic?? "so??"that broke every rule of Top 40 programming to become a No. 1 pop and country hit in 1960. Robbins was arguably the most surefooted and accomplished singer in all country music?? and that was never more obvious than on these Western ballads performed to often breathtaking perfection with a very small group and a vocal trio. Other titles include "ig Iron" (also a Top 30 hit)?? "unning Gun??"and Western classics like "Cool Water??""Billy the Kid??"and "The Strawberry Roan." Three extra tracks flesh out the 1999 release?? including "addle Tramp" (the B-side of "Big Iron") and "The Hanging Tree" (title song from the 1959 Gary Cooper Western). <i>--Colin Escott</i></br><br/>http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0000296J9ssses will t