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This is a lovely set of four CD's. The Singing Gunfighter (4cd) Beautiful country music.

This is a lovely set of four CD's. The Singing Gunfighter (4cd) Beautiful country music.

The double-disc set The Essential Marty Robbins: 1951-1982 effectively presents an overview of Robbins' long, prolific career, taking in nearly every style he tried out during that time. There are honky tonk and hillbilly numbers and cowboy songs, country-pop, rockabilly and Hawaiian tunes – in all, there are 50 songs, including the great majority of his big hit singles. In short, it's the perfect place to begin exploring his long, prolific and varied career, and it's a necessary addition to any country music library.

"El Paso" brought the country music out of Marty Robbins into the pop limelight in 1959 and this, together with all of his resonantly impressive "Gun Ballads" album of the same year and the best of the rest of his 50s recordings are all present here in a budget priced double CD pack.

This is a lovely set of four CD's. The Singing Gunfighter (4cd) Beautiful country music.

This 2-CD set anthologises MARTY ROBBINS' entire recorded output during 1961-62, featuring: four LPs and six hit singles.By 1961, Marty was firmly established as the most successful C&W/Pop/R&R crossover artist in the United States, renowned for his epic 'Gunfighter & Western' songs.He subsequently embarked upon an unlikely 'experimental' phase, in which he explored other musical directions.