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Still upset that Marty Robbins wasn't mentioned as one of the greatest musicians of country music as the Grammys. I think he was robbed I mean has nobody heard his angelic voice?

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I was introduced to the music of Marty Robbins late one night while driving through Los Angeles by some random radio station. It was about 1 am when the song “Big Iron” came on and I immediately found myself gripped not only by Marty’s beautiful, smooth voice, but also by the amazing story he told in the song. From that point on, I was a Marty Robbins fan, and his record Gun Fighter Ballads And Trail Songs became an immediate buy for me. The song above, “Utah Carol,” is one of a dozen on the album that are all prime examples of story telling through music at it’s finest (something that country artists have always done exceptionally well). The ballad tells the story of a cowboy trampled to death in a stampede while saving a young child, and the tune, like many of Marty Robbins good ones, is as haunting as it is gorgeous. No matter what kind of music you’re into, the ability to tell a tale or get a point across through song is fundamental; Marty Robbins was a master at it.

"I'm not a real good musician, but I can write [a song] pretty well. I experiment once in a while to see what I can do. I find out the best I can do is stay with ballads."

– Marty Robbins

Fun Fact of the Day

Marty Robbins was born September 26, 1925 in Glendale, Arizona. He taught himself how to play guitar while serving in the U.S. Navy during World War II.

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It’s too bad Marty Robbins didn’t live long enough to do a Johnny Cash-style Old Musician Mortality-Haunted Comeback Album produced by some relatively young, relatively cool younger artist, featuring weird or unexpected covers, because ever since I thought about it the other night at work, I can’t quit imagining his version of Warren Zevon’s “Carmelita.”