Marty Robbins - Gunfighter Ballads And Trail Songs

Gunfighter Ballads And Trail Songs is the fifth studio album by American country singer songwriter Marty Robbins, originally released in September 1959 via Columbia Records.

Real Gone Music is proud to present the original mono version of what most folks consider to be the single greatest postwar album of Western music, Marty Robbins' 1959 record Gunfighter Ballads And Trail Songs. Everything about this album is iconic, from its "quick draw" cover art to the songs it contains - "Big Iron," "Cool Water," "The Master's Call," "Billy the Kid," "The Strawberry Roan," and, of course, "El Paso" (here in its rare, full-length version) - that have come to define the Western genre.

The album was recorded in a single eight-hour session on 7 April 1959, and was certified Gold by the RIAA in 1965 and Platinum in 1986. It is perhaps best known for Robbins's most successful single, "El Paso”, a major hit on both the country and pop music charts, as well as for its opening track, "Big Iron”, a song that gained a resurgence in popularity online as an Internet meme after its inclusion in the 2010 video game Fallout: New Vegas.

In 2017, Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs was selected for preservation in the National Recording Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant”.

And the music has never sounded better than it does here: this silver and red "Bullets 'n' Blood" pressing was remastered from the original tapes by Vic Anesini at Battery Studios in New York. The album comes complete with the amazing original album artwork too...a classic album now even more collectible than before.

This album is a 2024 limited edition reissue on silver and red “bullets & blood” marbled coloured vinyl housed in a single pocket sleeve with remastered audio, pressed in the US via Real Gone Music.