More Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs explained

More Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs
Type:studio
Artist:Marty Robbins
Cover:More Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs.png
Released:July 1960[1]
Studio:Bradley Studios, Nashville, Tennessee
Length:32:45
Label:Columbia Records
Producer:Don Law
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More Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs is a studio album by country music singer Marty Robbins. It was released in 1960 by Columbia Records as a sequel to Robbins's 1959 hit album Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs.

In Billboard magazine's annual poll of country music disc jockeys, More Gunfighter Ballads was rated No. 9 among the "Favorite C&W Albums" of 1960.[2] The Pensacola News-Journal in September 1960 called it "one of the better releases of recent months."[3]

AllMusic gave the album a rating of four-and-a-half stars.[4] Reviewer Bruce Eder noted that "it is similar to the earlier album, with the sound a little more stripped down in the vocal department and perhaps less romanticized than the earlier record.."[4]

The opening track is "San Angelo". Columbia representative F. W. Stubblefield traveled to San Angelo, Texas, in July 1960, to present Mayor Paul Hudman with a copy of the album.[5]

Track listing

Side A

  1. "San Angelo" (Marty Robbins) – 5:41
  2. "Prairie Fire" (Joe Babcock) – 2:14
  3. "Streets of Laredo" – 2:47
  4. "Song of the Bandit" (Bob Nolan) – 2:30
  5. "I've Got No Use for the Women" – 3:21

Side B

  1. "Five Brothers" (Tompall Glaser) – 2:13
  2. "Little Joe the Wrangler" – 4:07
  3. "Ride, Cowboy Ride" (Lee Emerson) – 3:15
  4. "This Peaceful Sod" (Jim Glaser) – 1:54
  5. "She Was Young and She Was Pretty" (Marty Robbins) – 2:58
  6. "My Love" (Marty Robbins) – 1:45

Personnel

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Billboard. August 1, 1960.
  2. News: Favorite C&W Albums. The Billboard. October 31, 1960. 24.
  3. News: Records. The Pensacola News-Journal. September 25, 1960. 4D. Newspapers.com.
  4. Web site: More Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs. AllMusic. December 18, 2020.
  5. News: San Angelo Now Pressed In Wax. San Angelo Standard-Times. July 31, 1960. 8B. Newspapers.com.