Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs

Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs is the fifth studio album by Marty Robbins, released on the Columbia Records label in September 1959 and peaking at number 6 on the U.S. pop albums chart. It was recorded in a single eight-hour session on April 7, 1959, and was certified Gold by the RIAA in 1965 and Platinum in 1986. It is perhaps best known for Robbins's most successful single, "El Paso," a major hit on both the country and pop music charts, as well as for its opening track, "Big Iron," a song that gained a resurgence in popularity online as an Internet meme after its inclusion in the 2010 video game Fallout: New Vegas.

Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs
Studio album by
Marty Robbins
ReleasedSeptember 1959
RecordedApril 7, 1959
Genre
Length35:25 (1959 LP)
44:44 (1999 CD)
LabelColumbia
ProducerDon Law
Marty Robbins chronology
Marty's Greatest Hits
(1959)
Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs
(1959)
More Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs
(1960)

A follow-up album of cowboy songs, More Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs, was released in 1960. In 2017, Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs was selected for preservation in the National Recording Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or artistically significant."

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