Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs

I don’t like country music so when I saw the cover and album title and thought I would absolutely hate this. How wrong I was. This was bloody brilliant. Loved it.

Top Track - Big Iron

This album cover is tilted, right? Right?!

I like Trail Songs OK, but I'm not so sure about Gunfighter Ballads. I've never heard of Marty Robbins but it turns out he was a pretty big deal. He has a good voice. The songs are Country/western as advertised ("old-timey cowboy stuff"). In some ways, I like the sound, because it's nostalgic (I'm becoming a broken record with this, but it sounds like Children's Favorites!!), but it's also not particularly inspiring, maybe because the cowboy life has very little in common with my life. I really wasn't expecting Utah Carol to be a guy's name. A boy named Utah Carol.

Highlights: 'Cool Water', 'The Strawberry Roan' (where Chappell Roan took her name from! (although not this version)), 'The Little Green Valley' (is the little green valley... heaven?? D:), 'The Hanging Tree' (D:)

Outlaw Country is my favorite form of country, and Marty Robbins is probably the earliest pioneer of this subgenre of music

This sort of music I don't usually mind, it just bores me. But because of his glorious voice and the topics of storytelling, it kept me hooked

Favorite songs:

Big Iron
Billy the Kid
The Master's Call

Nice voice. Good stories. Reminds me of Sunday afternoons in childhood watching old Westerns on the telly.
I doubt it's something I'll come back to unless I'm riding a horse across Monument Valley.
Which is unlikely.

OMG, Fallout New Vegas! Breaking Bad!
Outside of those pop culture bangers, actually a nice western album, would watch tumbleweeds tumble to this. 4*
Highlights: big iron, el paso

Uhhhh....I expected to hate this, I mean look at the damn cover lmao...but I'm kinda fucking with this... All the songs are relatively short, so a 45 minute run time isn't too bad, but 40 minutes would've been perfect for me. Apparently there's a 35 minute version and that version didn't have "They're Hanging Me Tonight" so maybe the 45 minute version just is the best version.

It's me, Arthur Morgan and John Marston against the notorious Micah Bell and the charming Dutch van der Linde.

How did country music go from the great melodies, performances, and story-telling of Marty Robbins to the utter travesty to music that is Morgan Wallen? If nothing else, this album demonstrates just how terrible modern country music is, and that's a shame.

5.0/5.0: Iconic

Great country album

Hell of a voice. This one could keep rising for me.

4/5

Heck yeah. Great, easy-listening country tunes. Wish I had bought this on vinyl to listen first, feels like it needs some crackling to feel truly authentic

I have listened to this album so much due to Fallout New Vegas. It's not actually amazing, but very good.

Fun to hear these old cowboy songs. This album came out towards the end of Hollywood’s westerns obsession, ensuring a big audience. For all its quality it shows its age.

Класний ретро альбом.

A perfect concept album for degenerates like me who belong on a cross

IH eh a música do fallout new vegas!
country da melhor forma. é bom? não. mas escutável

I liked this more than I thought I would. An album full of cowboy country songs. But this really is the rap music of the 50s, but I bet they held their pistols correctly before they filled them full of lead.

Classic c&w

The vibe is strong on this one.

got through one song. eh