Marty Robbins - El Paso City
I know this isn't the usual thing for here, but I pride myself on not having a usual thing. So we're doing it, and setting a record for the unprecedented third (!) centennial celebration of September.
I actually worked on this show extensively, building upon my recent discoveries about how AI stem separation, if used judiciously, can go a real long way towards restoring the parts of these concerts where the FM announcer inevitably talks over the music so he/she/they no longer do.
So for the first of two consecutive posts concerning someone with the initials MR, we're gonna pay tribute to the most Commie-hatin', heart-attack havin' Country star ever to drive NASCAR.
An early TV star, Marty Robbins began in the 1950s in Arizona, and after one of his guest friends got him a Columbia record deal, he began recording in his particular Cowboy Ballad vein.
His initial hits were among the first to cross over into the pop world, and he broke the mold and the bank with his 1959 smash El Paso, which remains a standard song to this day.
The legend has it that he also inadvertently popularized the intentional use of distortion in the studio, accidentally overloading his bass player in the console on one of his big songs and creating the "fuzz" tone that proceeded to colonize the entire 1960s.
One of the Nashville establishment figures the "outlaw" contingent (that's the law firm of Nelson, Jennings & Haggard, LLC) overthrew in the 1970s, he always had a couple of toes dipped in Rock and Roll anyway so I doubt he took it personally.
Anyway he died young, of cardiovascular disease soon after this performance at the Opry, and he'd have been the big hundred today, so I hope you're ready for the Country.
Marty Robbins
"Marty Party"
Opryland at The Grand Ole Opry
Nashville, Tennessee USA
6.10.1982
01 Silver Eagle introduction
02 Ribbon of Darkness
03 A White Sport Coat
04 Devil Woman
05 Don't Worry
06 That's All Right
07 Eighteen Yellow Roses
08 Tonight Carmen
09 Bell Telephone commercial (Tanya Tucker)
10 I Don't Know Why, I Just Do
11 Big Iron
12 Streets of Laredo
13 Some Memories Just Won't Die
14 band introductions/Louisiana interlude
15 Cool Water
16 Hormel commercial (Geezinslaw Bros.)
17 Release Me
18 Jambalaya
19 Restless Cattle
20 Chapel Bells Chime
21 El Paso City
22 Jenny
23 MR talk
24 A Good Hearted Woman
25 Bell Telephone commercial (Lena Horne)
26 MR talk
27 This Time You Gave Me a Mountain
28 Jumper Cable Man
29 El Paso
30 Silver Eagle outro
Total time: 1:15:51
Marty Robbins - keyboards, guitar & vocals
Conrad Hawes Noddin - piano, trumpet & vocals
Jim Hannaford - trumpet & vocals
Larry Hunt - bass
Billy Martinez - drums
Jack Pruitt - guitar
Wayne Hobbs - pedal steel guitar
Don Winters - vocals & guitar
Silver Eagle announcer is Larry Kenney
pre-broadcast vinyl from the Silver Eagle Radio Network
missing bits (Tracks 14, 17-20) are 320/48k audio streamed from Wolfgang's Vault, converted to 16/44 Audio
spectral analysis of missing bits is lossless to 20 kHz
assembled, edited, denoised & remastered for unity -- with DJ talkovers eliminated -- by EN, September 2025
453 MB FLAC/direct link
453 MB FLAC/direct link
This was one of those pains in the butt where there's a preFM LP set and a Wolfgang's Vault stream, and if you combine them you get the complete performance, so that's what I did, emphasizing the more lossless source but for the bits missing from the Silver Eagle radio station LPs.
That may be it for this month from me, I'm not sure yet because I'm working on two different memorials to recently departed icons.
But I wasn't gonna let the sun set in the West without popping this one up and celebrating the centenary of one of the foundational pillars of the now-ubiquitous Americana genre, born this very day in 1925 and still twangin' his echoes through time!--J.
9.26.1925 - 12.8.1982
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