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Marty Robbins - El Paso (1959) Marty Robbins from: "Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs" (LP) "El Paso" / "Running Gun" (Single)

Ballad | Country and Western | Tex-Mex

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Personnel: Marty Robbins: Lead Vocals / Acoustic Rhythm Guitar Grady Martin: Lead Guitar* Jack Pruett: Acoustic Rhythm Guitar Bob Moore: Stand-Up Acoustic Bass Louie Dunn: Drums

*(Specifically, a 1952 Bigsby Doubleneck Guitar providing the distinctive Spanish/Tex-Mex sound) - Google AI

Harmony/Backing Vocals: Thomas Paul "Tompall" Glaser / Jim Glaser / Bobby Sykes

Produced by Don Law

Recorded: @ Bradley Studios (Studio 2) in Nashville, Tennessee USA on April 7, 1959

Album Released: September, 1959 Single Released: on October 26, 1959 Columbia Records

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The album was recorded in a single eight-hour session on April 7, 1959, in Nashville, Tennessee. It became a massive hit, peaking at number six on the U.S. pop albums chart and featuring the single "El Paso", which reached number one on both the country and pop charts. - Google AI

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Members of the Western Writers of America chose "El Paso" as among the Top 100 Western songs of all time. Along with songs such as "Ghost Riders in the Sky" and "Back in the Saddle Again"

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In 1998, the 1959 recording of "El Paso" on Columbia Records by Marty Robbins was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame.

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Early Lefty Frizzell - If You've Got The Money I've Got The Time (1950).*

Recorded 25 July 1950  - [15.00 - 18.00] - Jim Beck Studio, 1101 Ross Ave., Dallas, TX - Lefty Frizzell [gt/vcl solo], Norman Stevens [gt/leader], Buddy Griffin [gt], Bobby Williamson [bass], Pee Wee Stewart [fiddle], Madge Suttee [piano]. Producer: Don Law.

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291: Marty Robbins // Devil Woman

Devil Woman Marty Robbins 1962, Columbia

“Much talent is transient—time, our sternest critic, often decrees that today’s rage may be forgotten tomorrow. But the songs of Marty Robbins are certain to be played and sung as long as mankind cherishes music.” So ends Bob Tubert’s liner note for Marty Robbins’ 1962 LP Devil Woman, the third highest-charting album on the pop charts (#35) of the singer’s career, and home to one of his signature tunes in the million-selling title track (a country #1, pop #16). Here in 2024, the record isn’t on Spotify; isn’t reviewed on AllMusic.com; has zero reviews on RateYourMusic.com; lacks a Wikipedia page; has been reissued as a standalone album on CD exactly once that I’m aware of (in 2016) and hasn’t been repressed on vinyl since the late ‘70s.

This guy was the most popular country crossover artist in America for a few years there, a vocalist and songwriter with few peers in his genre! But such is the fate of a country icon, an endless stream of compilations but little to no consideration of their albums as albums. This is especially true of the ‘60s and ‘70s period, when country labels hosed the shelves with product like Stone Cold Steve Austin giving the Corporation a beer bath (Robbins had four LPs in 1961-62 alone), but it’s also a holdover of a critical apparatus that would happily give a sober appraisal of the least effort by the fucking New Riders of the Purple Sage while glossing over nearly the entire career of a George Jones or a Don Gibson.

Anyway, now that I’ve thoroughly beat my breast over something I was barely mad about before five minutes ago, I’ll just note that Devil Woman is as sturdy a record as anything on the shelves in the era. Released just three years after his towering Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs (one of the ten best albums of the 1950s), co-produced by Gunfighter’s Don Law and returning most of the same band, this one’s a sure shot for a classic country fan. Devil Woman steers well clear of the hysterically tragic cowboy melodrama of Robbins’ masterpiece, with only the Spanish-inflected title track and closer “The Wine Flowed Freely” really setting any big narrative stakes, but it’s nice not hearing Marty die at the end of every song. Marty had the voice of an angel, and even his bounciest music has a feathery touch: “Progressive Love” could’ve been a Gene Austin number; “I’m Beginning to Forget” trades his trusty acoustic for a ukelele; “In the Ashes of an Old Love Affair” is like standing outside a lightly fogged diner window watching a man wait for a woman who’s not gonna show. To be honest, the title track isn’t among my favourites (the adultering protagonist needs to grow up and take some responsibility for himself), but I’d walk the floor all night for “Ain’t Life a Crying Shame,” a slinky honky tonk tune that gets right under my skin.

Devil Woman isn’t a life-changer, but it’s an album I could leave on my turntable for a week while I work without it ever grating. That’s a kind of craftsmanship that merits genuine consideration from any music lover.

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Bijna iedere dag muziek: Robert Johnson

Bijna iedere dag muziek: Robert Johnson

https://youtu.be/Yd60nI4sa9A De legende begint in het zuiden waar young Robert Johnson (1911-1938, USA) rondtrekt en zijn blues ten gehore brengt. Op een dag blijkt zijn faam zo ver te zijn verbreid, dat een man van een platenmaatschappij hem opzoekt in Robinsville, een plantage diep in de MIssissippi-delta, met het voorstel een paar opnamesessies te doen in San Antonio. Als Johnson in de winter…

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Don Law Releases Single “Deserve It”

American rapper, singer, musician, and record producer Don Law has released a new single called “Deserve It”. “Deserve It” is an ode to love, to one's significant other meaning the world to them, and that significant other deserving all of oneself.

Stream/Download “Deserve It” here or listen below!

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Well he’s dead

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how is the potato salad, anyway?

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Don Law - An Englishman, The Blues and Country Music

Don Law, an Englishman who recorded Robert Johnson and a string of Country Music legends

Don Law, an Englishman who recorded Robert Johnson and a string of Country Music legends