The Gunfighter
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By el gunfighter
My Mom and Pop loved Marty Robbins voice, and had this album. I remember listening to this record over and over again growing up, as I loved westerns, especially Clint Eastwood westerns. So much so, I had to buy a single action six shooter years later, and practice fast draw, twirling it back in the holster, and “fanning the hammer” style shooting. I became quite good at it, I have to say.
The imagery the songs on this album portrays maybe are romanticised a bit, compared to what the old west was really like, but that didn’t matter to a kid growing up in the mid 20th century! What mattered was Marty sang about good triumphs over evil, (Big Iron, The Masters Call), tragic love (El Paso, Running Gun), and a host of old western songs (Cool Water, The Strawberry Roan, Little Green Valley), and conjured imagery of the old west in the vivid young mind of a kid growing up in New Haven, Indiana! RIP Marty! You brought me a lot of joy and happiness growing up!
