Just thinking on, and reading, and listening to Marty Robbins.

What a talent!

Total cheese dick.

Saw him at a dance hall in Fort Worth years ago. He was great as I recall.

A WW2 Navy vet, backed Barry Goldwater, splendid singer, what's not to like?

Yep, got a couple of friends in Nashville that said he was known far and wide as a huge talent and the biggest [bleep] in country music.

I run his Gun Fighter CD thru about once a week.Years ago,I found three of his LP albums in a store and had a friend put them on 8 track.I still have that.Robbins,Cash,Merle, Waylon, Willy, all put out some great music

Wabi

GFY and tell your cows to fart with their ass pointed South .

Loved his music, got to meet him once in the early ‘70’s at a rather small venue......he was also a pretty damn good stock car racer! Raced a bit in the NASCAR series! memtb

And what a Saturday.

Ruby Ann.

Always liked this one

I believe that his dirt track racer was named “Devil Woman “.

Marty with Roy now.

Marty died yoing.

My parents had Marty Robbins records in the 1950s, and they El Paso was on the radio in 1960.

Never heard of em

His cowboy songs are great!

You have missed a lot. Probably because you spend all your time posting here.

"The stranger there among them had a big iron on his hip."

I’ve seen Stagecoach. 😃

What about Foghat? You ever heard of them?

And cheated a bit!

Guy had a heck of a life.
Cotton picker to WWII vet to Nashville star to race car driver.....

Great singer and song writer. One of my favorites.

"Y'all got any 'ol Foghat up in here?" Heard in a 1975 Ford F100 in 1980.

I think that one with 'ol Willie is a campfire favorite.

I was in front of the stage when Foghat was playing in Seattle Aug 28, 1974, when a girl fell down the well in front of the stage and I found her unconcious.
I knew where there were 3 doctors in residency smoking dope in the back of the room. I left the stage and got them.

I was a fan of Foghat, and had been playing Savoy Brown licks on the guitar since I was a kid.
I used my most gravely voice to sing Mr. Downchild.

Des Moines fairgrounds - his car crapped out in hot laps. He bought another racer's car, drove it for the night, gave his winnings AND the car back to the original owner.

memtb already said that it was the NASCAR series - your point is redundant.

Marty Robbins and Jim Croce are two of my favorite singers that died too young. Imagine the song library they'd have if they'd been around longer.

In what way?

True, but he did it with such great style

My Blue Spruce Woman came out of the woods.

Good behind the guitar, behind the mic and behind the wheel. Not a bad life.....

[quote=BillyGoatGruff]Marty Robbins and Jim Croce are two of my favorite singers that died too young. Imagine the song library they'd have if they'd been around longer. [


/Marty died from complications from heart surgery back when medical technology was not advanced as today.

Ditto on Croce , love his music. Bad, Bad LeRoy Brown !

And disc jockey.

Croce was a great one, too soon gone.

Great singer, ballad singer Marty Robbins.This was when country was real.

One of my MR fav's....


ya!

GWB

I liked Marty Robbins a lot as a singer and songwriter. He recorded a lot of good work and was also a real stock car racer. He was from Arizona, and I believe his mother was Indian. A pretty impressive guy. I don't know what he was like as a person though.

A legend gone too soon

So what happened to the chick, she live through it?

Thanks to this thread El Paso City is playing on loop inside my head.

Bastids

Robbins did good Gospel sons as well.

I listen to Big Iron once a month or so--not so much for the song, which is good, but for the lead backup and mix which I think is as good as there ever was. None of the other covers of the song come close.

My dad had all of his albums on 8 track, plus Charley Pride, Johnny Cash, Merle Haggard, etc. I believe I would give a large sack of money to sit and listen to them all with my dad again........

You're welcome,,,

One of my favorites!

Just a straight A Hole to most everyone in Nashville from what I was told. The Nashville set gave him some degree of latitude because of his singing talent.

Ya think Marty ever made a chicken meatloaf?

😂

When you reach a level of renown, I’m pretty sure you start to get judged on the 1 out of 100 encounter.

Besides, Nashville folk were probably more than deserving.

I always liked Marty Robbin's music. You could understand what he was saying and they told a story. Went to high school with his nephew in Parker, Arizona in the late 1960's.