Question:
What are some good Western ballads? Songs that sound like Marty Robbins?
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2012-09-30 00:17:52 UTC
What are some awesome western ballads? I recently stumbled across Marty Robbins (through Fallout) and his gunfighter ballads and other songs, and they're awesome.

I particularly like Big Iron, Ballad of the Alamo, Old Red, Five Brothers, Cowboy in the Continental Suit, etc

If anyone can recommend some other similar artists, that would be awesome!
Seven answers:
2012-09-30 10:54:03 UTC
Very similar to Marty Robbins' ballads are "Matamoros", "El Diablo", "Cross The Brazos At Waco" all by Billy Walker



"Belle Star" by Jim Glaser appears on the Johnny Bond album "That Wild, Wicked, But Wonderful West", and wrongly credited to Johnny Bond. Jim Glaser sang on many of Marty Robbins' western ballads, and recorded this and several other songs as a solo artist. "Belle Star" is the only one I can locate, but there was an album out in the mid 1960s.



Other noted singers of western ballads are:



Gene Autry, Johnny Bond, Rex Allen, Chris Le Doux, Roy Rogers, Johnny Western, Rex Allen Junior, and Tom Russell (great writer!).



Johnny Cash ("...Sings Ballads Of The True West") has done a few, too, as have Bob Dylan ("Pat Garrett & Billy The Kid"), and Willie Nelson ("Redheaded Stranger").



Very interesting is the concept album "The Legend Of Jesse James" featuring Charlie Daniels, Levon Helm, Johnny Cash and Emmylou Harris.
Eryn
2015-08-16 20:28:10 UTC
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What are some good Western ballads? Songs that sound like Marty Robbins?

What are some awesome western ballads? I recently stumbled across Marty Robbins (through Fallout) and his gunfighter ballads and other songs, and they're awesome.



I particularly like Big Iron, Ballad of the Alamo, Old Red, Five Brothers, Cowboy in the Continental Suit, etc



If anyone can...
shandi
2016-10-17 02:26:45 UTC
Western Ballads
Galen
2016-01-30 13:06:14 UTC
good western ballads songs sound marty robbins
blakree
2012-10-03 05:15:54 UTC
......give a listen to;

Riders In The Sky

Sons Of The Pioneers

Tex Ritter

Michael Martin Murphy

Jimmy Wakley

Wift Carter

Frankie Laine

Bob Nolan

Roy Rogers

Dale Evans

Ken Curtis
2016-03-18 07:51:13 UTC
El Paso
Ethan
2014-07-31 20:35:07 UTC
Lorne Greene is good, his ballads are at a slightly fast but still good


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