Album · 1959
Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs
Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs is a 1959 country album by Marty Robbins. It runs 16 tracks across 47 minutes.
Country · Tejano · Traditional Country
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- 16
- Tracks
- 47 min
- Runtime
- 121 bpm
- Tempo
- E major
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- AllMusic4.5/5
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The Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs cover was photographed by Don Cravens.
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Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs is an album released by Marty Robbins on the Columbia Records label in September 1959, peaking at #6 on the U.S. pop albums chart. It was recorded on April 7, 1959 It is perhaps best known for Robbins' most successful single, "El Paso", a major hit on both the country and pop music charts. It reached #1 in both charts at the start of 1960 and won the Grammy Award for Best Country & Western Recording the following year. In 1999 it was re-released on the Legacy Records reissue label with the tracks resequenced and included three bonus tracks, including the full length version of "El Paso." AllMusic gave the album four-and-a-half stars, calling it "[t]he single most influential album of Western songs in post-World War II American music". It is included in every revision of the list of 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die.
In brief
- When was Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs released?
- Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs was released in 1959.
- How many tracks are on Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs?
- Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs has 16 tracks, with a runtime of 47 minutes.
- What genre is Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs?
- Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs is catalogued under Country, Tejano, Traditional Country.
- What BPM is Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs?
- Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs runs at a median tempo of 121 BPM across its tracks, most often in E major, measured from audio analysis.
- What albums are similar to Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs?
- Listeners of Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs also rate The Country Way by Charley Pride, American IV: The Man Comes Around by Johnny Cash, Hymns By Johnny Cash by Johnny Cash.