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As a jazz and rock guy, this recording was not a suspect for my favorites collection. Besides the mesmerizing and realistic lyrics of Robbins, there's the spanish influenced guitar of Grady Martin that turns this poetry into music. But I ran across a few songs on satellite radio and bought the CD. Now it's one of the ten recordings I take on the road or camping any time. After hearing it a hundred times, I'm still hearing things I missed. I don't know when a remastered version will come out, but I'll buy it when it does.
Although I bought this for just the long version of "El Paso" the entire recoding brought back memories of my long, gone youth. The delivery was super, as are most are with Amazon.
THIS IS CLASSIC MUSIC FOR ALL THOSE WHO LOVE COUNTRY AND THOSE WHO DO NOT. THROUGHLY ENJOY.
Us old farts need music too. I had it on a record and wanted a new one, because I enjoy this old real music.
This CD is excellently remastered by Sony and is complete, with all the original tracks from the LP with three additional tracks. The song "Feleena" set up the story of "El Paso" in more detail, and is a balladeer styled song that gives you more background on the song "El Paso". Columbia engineers were in their hay-day in the early sixties with their crisp recording techniques and capturing of full-bodied tonalities and this album reflects that engineering standard, although recorded in Nashville instead of Hollywood where other great, powerful voices recorded, like Frankie Laine. This Marty collection would have been more complete by including the cut "Feleena (from El Paso)" which was on his "The Drifter" album. As an aside, the LP version (long version) of "El Paso" is what is on this album, not the 45 RPM edit. As mentioned before, this album is complete with none of the songs messed up in any way by Sony's re-mastering engineers, unlike "Johnny Horton's Greatest Hits" album where "Johnny Freedom" is faded out on the end instead of allowing it to crescendo to the end of the song like it does on the original LP.
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