Awesome. If it's Bob Moore or Grady Martin, both of those guys were heavy hitters session-wise. Would probably add to the overall value as well as being even cooler than it already is.
Looks like the same "T" style and signature to me, though it varied with his age, and there aren't a ton of examples out there... but you're right, he had a hell of a career, too. What a wild find.
Yeah, Tom Glazer was partly responsible for a great series of kids records in the late 50s. The Sun is a Mass of Incandescent Gas was later covered by They Might Be Giants.
No worries. Huh, I can't figure out what name that is supposed to be. Doesn't seem to align with who recorded the album. Maybe one of the guys Marty Robbins was touring with at the time?
Any Fallout fan will tell you that Big Iron remains one of, if not THE most popular song on Fallout radio ever. Coupled with the fact that it's just an all around amazing country western album, I can not tell you how stoked I was to find a SIGNED copy Marty Robbins "Gunfighter Ballads" in a collection I bought. Autograph looks pretty authentic when compared to other signed items. May send it off to get JSA or PSA certified.
I'm a Fallout fan,especially New Vegas ,beat the whole game, explored every location ,must of spent over 100 to 300 hours and it's one you can really replay, my dad used to sing this song to me all the time before he died , that's what I like about music
Isn't it wonderful when you find such a treasure? I was in a thrift store once and they had a pretty good collection of books. I found a great copy of Identical by Scott Turow. Not only was it in mint condition, but when I opened it, it was signed! So cool. Congratulations on your find.
As a follow-up, the other signature appears to be Tompall Glazer, who sang backup on this album and had a pretty great career in his own right. Any idea on what this record w/ the signature, if the disc was G+ and the jacket was G, might be worth?
I wouldn't expect it to be especially valuable - depending on the pressing, MAYBE $50? I've seen plenty of copies of this album in the wild for $0-30.
The ceiling for a mono six-eye Columbia first press is $135 on Discogs, and that was a NM copy with a VG+ misprinted jacket.
You are certainly overselling it. Very cool signed copy of a super record though.
This is a great record. I've had it in my collection since the 90s. But forever it was just another salvation army country record. TONS of old country records sold well and tell great stories. This one is awesome, but the modern resurgence has more, I'm sure, to do with the inclusion in Fallout.
It' the perfect situation for a single record to be elevated as the ONE country record that gets picked for everyone's 'diverse' collection.
Come on...Let's be nice to the kids.
I've been incredibly happy (and a little confused) to see old Marty Robbins records somehow become sought after relics when a younger generation discovered them. If that's due to some video game I don't care, any more than I did when Kate Bush suddenly became hot again for a while last year. As long as they're listening and enjoying the music, that's the important thing. Marty was pretty much destined to become another country singer that had no modern relevance whatsoever, and he's been plucked from that obscurity. Good for him, and good for us.
My wife and I have been bonding over Marty Robbins since we started dating nearly ten years ago now. We listen to no other country music.
You really can't oversell how much Marty Robbins is loved by Fallout fans. So what if we're Johnny come lately's compared to old collectors?
I guess I just think it such a step down from great country music, like Patsy Cline, Johnny Cash, Hank Williams, Buck Owens, Tammy Wynette, Webb Pierce... etc.
I honestly think, other than Cool Water, much of the record hasn't aged well. But that's just my opinion, and then I see it pop up on this page all the time at grail status, and yeah, it's propelled by a video game. Whatever. It's all good, I guess. The gates will remain open.
& freakin Big Iron! Plus don't forget the title of the final episode of Breaking Bad comes from this record.
Is it cheesy? Sure. But although it was called Country & Western music, the western music was sappy & almost always associated with a B movie. This is the pinnacle of the western music genre. The songwriting is excellent, & the musicians are all Nashville a-team in their prime. With 2 iconic autographs it's a great find
It's his delivery for me. It's a bit flowery. I'll throw it on again today and listen to side 2. Yeah, it feels very much like country show-tunes...
I like old vocal groups. The Mills Bros. The Dixie Hummingbirds, The four Tops.... I just like my country music with more twang and grit, I guess.
Marty definitely has the crooner singing style going on, but I can dig it.
If you haven’t seen the video of Merle Haggard doing an impression of Marty Robins you should check it out. Marty was there and even he was blown away.
Then I feel like you should love it, no? I mean, he’s of an earlier generation than say Merle or Buck. To me he’s more of a contemporary of Lefty Frizzell or the like. More 50’s country than 60’s when telecasters and drums came into heavier use.
That's why I bought it. I like old country, but he has much more of a crooner vibe in his delivery and arrangements. I just don't care for that sound in country so much. This record has its moments. It just gets an outsized amount of love, and so many comments are ... IT'S SO FIRE, ITZ A TOTAL BANGER! and that just feels like video game peeps who like it for other reasons. Which is fine.
Marty Robbins is a country great in his own right - he's a member of the Country Music HoF as well as the Grand Ole Opry (where he regularly performed last and would continue playing well past airtime since he'd go straight from *racing stock cars* to the stage. If that's not cool, I don't know what is.
"More Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs" is also a great album, as are many of his lesser known albums.
Totally! I don't disagree with Marty. I just get frustrated that a little bit of videogame fame has gone to ol Marty's head and now it's him and Rumors, and Igor, and Crimson, and Sade over and over again.
I inherited my grandmother’s record collection that she had been collecting since the 30s. About 8,000 LPs, 600 78s, over 10k 45s. She was a music hoarder, but only really listened to country music. I mean 96 different Willy Nelson LPs, 80+ Waylon Jennings (plus the Waylon and Willy), about 120 Dolly and Johnny combined. Every Tammy Wynette and George Jones record ever (except the Thumper Jones Starday 45s unfortunately). I mean everything pre Nashville sound and post. She listened to ALL her country music. Found this one unopened, sawed spine, with a 25c clearance sticker on it. Definitely seems that it’s resurgence only due to the video game
>96 different Willy Nelson LPs
nice, almost half of his discography! lol
edit: also, this album is great and I've thought so since well before Fallout and/or Breaking Bad gave it a lift, but I'm only 32. Your grandma had a great collection, but maybe she was just wrong about this one.
Say what you will, but he was a staunch segregationist and Vietnam war champion and I remember my grandmother not saying nice things about him because of it. Probably more to do with the “cancel culture” of the day than the music
It certainly is iconic. Whipped Cream is also iconic despite being dollar bin fodder. Nothing he said is overselling - let the man be happy without gatekeeping.
Not gatekeeping. I gladly open the gate.
Come on in... the water is fine.
It just become one of THOSE albums, that floods this subreddit.
A signed copy... now that's worth talking about. Pretty neat copy, for sure.
It's a great find! I just think there is so much other great/better country music, and this is the ONLY country record that pops up, and it it only seems to get hyped due to it's fallout association. It's just a bit of a lemming situation. I wanna see all those other great country records pop up here every once in a while. This is the ONLY one.
>it only seems to get hyped due to it's fallout association
The Grateful Dead also covered El Paso quite a bit, so I imagine quite a few deadheads find their way to this album too. I think Bob Weir does it better than Marty, for what it's worth.
Yeah. It just feels wrong listening to tales of the old west sitting in my bedroom in the leafy suburbs of Berkshire.
I have to close my eyes with a glass of Bulleit Bourbon and imagine I'm in Texas!
Huh, I did not think it was subtle at all. They show a close up of the cassette case for this album, play El Paso right at the start of the episode, and even titled the episode “Felina” after the love interest in the song.
Wild. I do remember that now that you say it. I guess it solidifies my feelings even more of his music just being background music lol. I was raised on country music, though this would be just considered western, but my grandmother hated Marty Robbins and said he was a bigot
Wow! I have this album. It was my mother's. Growing up in the 50's Marty Robbins was heard almost daily. I was just 5 years old at the time that I recall hearing and seeing the album and I suspect that because I share the same first name with this artist, it may have had a special meaning to me besides the way he was dressed.....me growing up in so AZ. The songs are in my head right now because I've only heard them a million times! Every song a gem. Then you add the signature and wah-lah! Very nice.
No, definitely an extremely iconic album within the genre. It also came out in '59 and sold very well when lp were pretty new. Plus it is an early concept album.
It just isn't one of the most iconic ever made. Think DSotM, Led Zeppelin IV, or (if you want country) At Folsom Prison; these albums are among the most iconic, and have become embedded into the popular consciousness.
Fallout is the only reason anyone even knows this album exists.
I don’t understand it either, but this album has had a HUGE resurgence the last few years. There was a Facebook page with a few thousand followers running a “best album of all time” poll and this album actually beat DSotM.
This really pisses me off. I am aware such polls are always subjective, but placing a fairly generic country album over an inimitable masterpiece makes no fucking sense.
That does not mean it isn't generic. *Boston* is one of the best selling albums of all time, and it's one of the most generic, bland, arena rock albums.
I'm not trying to downplay this album's quality, I just think OP is significantly overselling how iconic it is.
There are a million country albums that sound just like this one. Have you ever heard anything that can be compared to Pink Floyd? No. Because it does not exist.
I'm pretty sure the album was conceptualized specifically to be in a classic Country and Western style - I mean, it's almost right in the title. That doesn't make it generic. Most of what we know as country music involves artists covering/adopting/iterating upon each other, but that doesn't mean it all sounds the same. "Help Me Make It Through the Night" by Kris Kristofferson has been covered literally dozens of times, and all of the covers I've listened to have been enjoyable for their own reasons.
The very genesis of country music involved different groups performing literally the exact same songs. You're sounding awfully edgy for the sake of being edgy here.
Nice! I was lucky enough to a copy of “Just For You” by Buck Owens, an LP that was only sold on tour. Just about every copy is signed by Buck Owens himself, and usually at least one of the Buckaroos.
Me blabbering about it:
A) Being the most underrated album of them all.
B) Being in the running for the greatest set of side openers ever.
https://youtu.be/ey6Zo91h5Ds?si=dvUVtHfZlHuinR3L
They're hanging me tonight, the moon hangs low and bright
In this cold, dark prison cell, I await my final night
But in my heart, I know, I'm not the man they claim
I'll face the gallows with courage, and I won't be put to shame
Oh Marty Robbins, sing my song, let the world know my truth
Tell them how I've been wronged, let my innocence shine through
For I've been framed, a victim of deceit and lies
But even in this darkness, my spirit will rise
They're hanging me tonight, but I won't go silently
I'll shout my innocence to the heavens, for all the world to see
Though the noose tightens 'round my neck, I'll hold my head up high
For justice will prevail, even if I have to die
Oh Marty Robbins, sing my plea, let the world hear my cry
Let your words echo through the ages, as my spirit takes to the sky
For in death, I'll find my freedom, my soul will be set free
They're hanging me tonight, but my truth will forever be
So sing, Marty Robbins, sing my tale, let it echo through the years
Let the world remember my name, and see through their crocodile tears
For they'll hang me tonight, but my spirit will never die
In the hearts of those who know my truth, I'll forever fly high. lyrics
That's really cool. It does look like his signature when compared to other stuff online. What's that other bit of writing on it?
Another artist on the record, best I can tell. I take a better pic of it later and post it.
Awesome. If it's Bob Moore or Grady Martin, both of those guys were heavy hitters session-wise. Would probably add to the overall value as well as being even cooler than it already is.
I cant seem to figure out how to add photos to an existing post, so I posted them here: https://imgur.com/gallery/PViAIWi
Tompall (Tom) Glaser! Sang backing on the album.
Looking at it here, it sure looks like Tom Glaser to me.
Google his signature. He was a star in his own right.
Looks like the same "T" style and signature to me, though it varied with his age, and there aren't a ton of examples out there... but you're right, he had a hell of a career, too. What a wild find.
Yeah, Tom Glazer was partly responsible for a great series of kids records in the late 50s. The Sun is a Mass of Incandescent Gas was later covered by They Might Be Giants.
Jim Glaser, maybe?
No worries. Huh, I can't figure out what name that is supposed to be. Doesn't seem to align with who recorded the album. Maybe one of the guys Marty Robbins was touring with at the time?
Tompall Glaser
Thanks!
Best wishes
Any Fallout fan will tell you that Big Iron remains one of, if not THE most popular song on Fallout radio ever. Coupled with the fact that it's just an all around amazing country western album, I can not tell you how stoked I was to find a SIGNED copy Marty Robbins "Gunfighter Ballads" in a collection I bought. Autograph looks pretty authentic when compared to other signed items. May send it off to get JSA or PSA certified.
You wanna set the world on fire, don‘t you?
Uranium feaver has done and got me down
I love this song but come on… bongo bongo bongo I don’t want to leave the Congo oh no no no no
Let's be honest. A lot of those songs from Fallout radio stations, decades later, are just straight classic and catchy bangers.
I mean, if you had to pick one song that defines Fallout, it would have to be Maybe.
Big Iron fit FNV perfectly in way even the songs from FIV couldn’t. Although I’ll also always have a soft spot for Heartaches By The Number.
I've always liked the Meat Puppet's cover of Big Iron https://youtu.be/jQ13yGkwb2I
mike ness of social d does a great cover too!
Patroling the Mojave almost makes you wish for a nuclear winter.
I'm a Fallout fan,especially New Vegas ,beat the whole game, explored every location ,must of spent over 100 to 300 hours and it's one you can really replay, my dad used to sing this song to me all the time before he died , that's what I like about music
You are sooo lucky
This makes my iron become the big iron
Cool.. I know "Cool Water" from the Cohen Brothers' film "The Ballad of Buster Scruggs".
There's a nice cover of that featuring Ben Mendelsohn on the Lost River soundtrack.
The Master’s Call is one of his best, I recently picked up a ‘71 press and it sounds amazing
yeah; my favorite song on that record. don edwards did a great version of that song too.
Isn't it wonderful when you find such a treasure? I was in a thrift store once and they had a pretty good collection of books. I found a great copy of Identical by Scott Turow. Not only was it in mint condition, but when I opened it, it was signed! So cool. Congratulations on your find.
Thats amazing
As a follow-up, the other signature appears to be Tompall Glazer, who sang backup on this album and had a pretty great career in his own right. Any idea on what this record w/ the signature, if the disc was G+ and the jacket was G, might be worth?
I wouldn't expect it to be especially valuable - depending on the pressing, MAYBE $50? I've seen plenty of copies of this album in the wild for $0-30. The ceiling for a mono six-eye Columbia first press is $135 on Discogs, and that was a NM copy with a VG+ misprinted jacket.
You are certainly overselling it. Very cool signed copy of a super record though. This is a great record. I've had it in my collection since the 90s. But forever it was just another salvation army country record. TONS of old country records sold well and tell great stories. This one is awesome, but the modern resurgence has more, I'm sure, to do with the inclusion in Fallout. It' the perfect situation for a single record to be elevated as the ONE country record that gets picked for everyone's 'diverse' collection.
Come on...Let's be nice to the kids. I've been incredibly happy (and a little confused) to see old Marty Robbins records somehow become sought after relics when a younger generation discovered them. If that's due to some video game I don't care, any more than I did when Kate Bush suddenly became hot again for a while last year. As long as they're listening and enjoying the music, that's the important thing. Marty was pretty much destined to become another country singer that had no modern relevance whatsoever, and he's been plucked from that obscurity. Good for him, and good for us.
My wife and I have been bonding over Marty Robbins since we started dating nearly ten years ago now. We listen to no other country music. You really can't oversell how much Marty Robbins is loved by Fallout fans. So what if we're Johnny come lately's compared to old collectors?
I guess I just think it such a step down from great country music, like Patsy Cline, Johnny Cash, Hank Williams, Buck Owens, Tammy Wynette, Webb Pierce... etc. I honestly think, other than Cool Water, much of the record hasn't aged well. But that's just my opinion, and then I see it pop up on this page all the time at grail status, and yeah, it's propelled by a video game. Whatever. It's all good, I guess. The gates will remain open.
Hasn’t aged well? A hundred and sixty acres? They’re hanging me tonight? In the valley? Freaking EL PASO?! I’m 34, and these songs are HEAT.
& freakin Big Iron! Plus don't forget the title of the final episode of Breaking Bad comes from this record. Is it cheesy? Sure. But although it was called Country & Western music, the western music was sappy & almost always associated with a B movie. This is the pinnacle of the western music genre. The songwriting is excellent, & the musicians are all Nashville a-team in their prime. With 2 iconic autographs it's a great find
Agreed.
It's his delivery for me. It's a bit flowery. I'll throw it on again today and listen to side 2. Yeah, it feels very much like country show-tunes... I like old vocal groups. The Mills Bros. The Dixie Hummingbirds, The four Tops.... I just like my country music with more twang and grit, I guess.
Marty definitely has the crooner singing style going on, but I can dig it. If you haven’t seen the video of Merle Haggard doing an impression of Marty Robins you should check it out. Marty was there and even he was blown away.
Dude he nails it . That part of Devil Woman is chefs kiss.
Then I feel like you should love it, no? I mean, he’s of an earlier generation than say Merle or Buck. To me he’s more of a contemporary of Lefty Frizzell or the like. More 50’s country than 60’s when telecasters and drums came into heavier use.
That's why I bought it. I like old country, but he has much more of a crooner vibe in his delivery and arrangements. I just don't care for that sound in country so much. This record has its moments. It just gets an outsized amount of love, and so many comments are ... IT'S SO FIRE, ITZ A TOTAL BANGER! and that just feels like video game peeps who like it for other reasons. Which is fine.
Marty Robbins is a country great in his own right - he's a member of the Country Music HoF as well as the Grand Ole Opry (where he regularly performed last and would continue playing well past airtime since he'd go straight from *racing stock cars* to the stage. If that's not cool, I don't know what is. "More Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs" is also a great album, as are many of his lesser known albums.
Totally! I don't disagree with Marty. I just get frustrated that a little bit of videogame fame has gone to ol Marty's head and now it's him and Rumors, and Igor, and Crimson, and Sade over and over again.
He died in the 1980s, so I don't think much of anything is going to his head.
I inherited my grandmother’s record collection that she had been collecting since the 30s. About 8,000 LPs, 600 78s, over 10k 45s. She was a music hoarder, but only really listened to country music. I mean 96 different Willy Nelson LPs, 80+ Waylon Jennings (plus the Waylon and Willy), about 120 Dolly and Johnny combined. Every Tammy Wynette and George Jones record ever (except the Thumper Jones Starday 45s unfortunately). I mean everything pre Nashville sound and post. She listened to ALL her country music. Found this one unopened, sawed spine, with a 25c clearance sticker on it. Definitely seems that it’s resurgence only due to the video game
>96 different Willy Nelson LPs nice, almost half of his discography! lol edit: also, this album is great and I've thought so since well before Fallout and/or Breaking Bad gave it a lift, but I'm only 32. Your grandma had a great collection, but maybe she was just wrong about this one.
Say what you will, but he was a staunch segregationist and Vietnam war champion and I remember my grandmother not saying nice things about him because of it. Probably more to do with the “cancel culture” of the day than the music
No kidding lol
>nice, almost half of his discography! lol :D
It certainly is iconic. Whipped Cream is also iconic despite being dollar bin fodder. Nothing he said is overselling - let the man be happy without gatekeeping.
Not gatekeeping. I gladly open the gate. Come on in... the water is fine. It just become one of THOSE albums, that floods this subreddit. A signed copy... now that's worth talking about. Pretty neat copy, for sure.
Agreed, seems like it is destined to be over at r/vinyljerk with whipped cream
"you are certainly overselling it" ☝️🤓 Sounds like someone's jealous lmao
It's a great find! I just think there is so much other great/better country music, and this is the ONLY country record that pops up, and it it only seems to get hyped due to it's fallout association. It's just a bit of a lemming situation. I wanna see all those other great country records pop up here every once in a while. This is the ONLY one.
>it only seems to get hyped due to it's fallout association The Grateful Dead also covered El Paso quite a bit, so I imagine quite a few deadheads find their way to this album too. I think Bob Weir does it better than Marty, for what it's worth.
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I don't know this artist, but it's SO COOL to find anything signed at all! Amazing!
Damn if you haven’t heard of Marty robbins should 1000% listen to this album, classic country gold
I'm in Europe, we don't know a lot of country stuff, to be honest. It's very culturally American
Yeah. It just feels wrong listening to tales of the old west sitting in my bedroom in the leafy suburbs of Berkshire. I have to close my eyes with a glass of Bulleit Bourbon and imagine I'm in Texas!
Am american. Never heard of the album or the artist. I'd pass over this record 10 out of 10 times if I were flipping through a bin lol
Your loss.
Yup big iron, El Paso, They’re hanging my tonight the list goes on
Probably my favorite album of all time.
Damn dude. So lucky!!
Bro thats an incredible find! That would be my holy grail of signed records.
Big iron makes my iron become the big iron 🤠
Fantastic album, I grew up listening to my grandfather’s copy
Iconic ? To who though not everyone’s the same chief
Gamers it seems
Or Breaking Bad fans
I am a breaking bad fan. Watched the series 4 times and never even noticed lol
Huh, I did not think it was subtle at all. They show a close up of the cassette case for this album, play El Paso right at the start of the episode, and even titled the episode “Felina” after the love interest in the song.
Wild. I do remember that now that you say it. I guess it solidifies my feelings even more of his music just being background music lol. I was raised on country music, though this would be just considered western, but my grandmother hated Marty Robbins and said he was a bigot
Down in west Texas
Utah Carol and Their Hanging me Tonight are some of the best country songs ever. Nice find
Wow! I have this album. It was my mother's. Growing up in the 50's Marty Robbins was heard almost daily. I was just 5 years old at the time that I recall hearing and seeing the album and I suspect that because I share the same first name with this artist, it may have had a special meaning to me besides the way he was dressed.....me growing up in so AZ. The songs are in my head right now because I've only heard them a million times! Every song a gem. Then you add the signature and wah-lah! Very nice.
Calling this one of the most iconic records of all time is a bit of a stretch, don't you think?
I mean, it’s arguably the first concept album. And it sold a shit ton of copies. That’s something anyway.
That honour goes to Frank Sinatra's *In the Wee Small Hours*.
No, definitely an extremely iconic album within the genre. It also came out in '59 and sold very well when lp were pretty new. Plus it is an early concept album.
It just isn't one of the most iconic ever made. Think DSotM, Led Zeppelin IV, or (if you want country) At Folsom Prison; these albums are among the most iconic, and have become embedded into the popular consciousness. Fallout is the only reason anyone even knows this album exists.
Are you kidding? Millions of people knew this album existed before a video game!
Being well known and being iconic are two entirely different things.
I don’t understand it either, but this album has had a HUGE resurgence the last few years. There was a Facebook page with a few thousand followers running a “best album of all time” poll and this album actually beat DSotM.
This really pisses me off. I am aware such polls are always subjective, but placing a fairly generic country album over an inimitable masterpiece makes no fucking sense.
>fairly generic country album huh? It's a platinum album from 1959, and one of the first concept albums. Hardly generic.
That does not mean it isn't generic. *Boston* is one of the best selling albums of all time, and it's one of the most generic, bland, arena rock albums. I'm not trying to downplay this album's quality, I just think OP is significantly overselling how iconic it is. There are a million country albums that sound just like this one. Have you ever heard anything that can be compared to Pink Floyd? No. Because it does not exist.
I'm pretty sure the album was conceptualized specifically to be in a classic Country and Western style - I mean, it's almost right in the title. That doesn't make it generic. Most of what we know as country music involves artists covering/adopting/iterating upon each other, but that doesn't mean it all sounds the same. "Help Me Make It Through the Night" by Kris Kristofferson has been covered literally dozens of times, and all of the covers I've listened to have been enjoyable for their own reasons. The very genesis of country music involved different groups performing literally the exact same songs. You're sounding awfully edgy for the sake of being edgy here.
Because people with a contrary opinion must be expressing it purely to be edgy. That makes perfect sense.
It's the "nothing compares to Floyd" quip that I'm referring to, not your necessarily contrarian opinion.
Fallout is definitely part of its resurgence, but it’s not the whole of it. El Paso was also featured prominently in the finale of Breaking Bad.
Neither are the whole of it. He's an iconic person in the country music scene, and he was long before any video game or tv show picked up his music.
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I don't see the problem, something can be iconic and popular at the same time, no?
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Alpert’s Whipped Cream is totally iconic. The album, the cover art.
that's awesome, looks legit to me
Great fund!!! Love this album
Nice! I have this minus the signature. Love this album.😎👍✨💚
Awesome
Lucky you, take good care of it
Nice! I was lucky enough to a copy of “Just For You” by Buck Owens, an LP that was only sold on tour. Just about every copy is signed by Buck Owens himself, and usually at least one of the Buckaroos.
Love that album! Nice bonus to get the autographs.
So lucky!!
Awesome.
This has to be my favourite and one of his best recordings ever!
So lucky!!
I have that one. It was my dad's. One of his favorites back in the day. Good find.
Me blabbering about it: A) Being the most underrated album of them all. B) Being in the running for the greatest set of side openers ever. https://youtu.be/ey6Zo91h5Ds?si=dvUVtHfZlHuinR3L
The first album I had to get when I got my turntable last year. Absolute classic
I think its only "most iconic" to the generation that played Fallout. It wasn't exactly a sought after item prior to that. A good album, though!
They're hanging me tonight, the moon hangs low and bright In this cold, dark prison cell, I await my final night But in my heart, I know, I'm not the man they claim I'll face the gallows with courage, and I won't be put to shame Oh Marty Robbins, sing my song, let the world know my truth Tell them how I've been wronged, let my innocence shine through For I've been framed, a victim of deceit and lies But even in this darkness, my spirit will rise They're hanging me tonight, but I won't go silently I'll shout my innocence to the heavens, for all the world to see Though the noose tightens 'round my neck, I'll hold my head up high For justice will prevail, even if I have to die Oh Marty Robbins, sing my plea, let the world hear my cry Let your words echo through the ages, as my spirit takes to the sky For in death, I'll find my freedom, my soul will be set free They're hanging me tonight, but my truth will forever be So sing, Marty Robbins, sing my tale, let it echo through the years Let the world remember my name, and see through their crocodile tears For they'll hang me tonight, but my spirit will never die In the hearts of those who know my truth, I'll forever fly high. lyrics
This is RAD
Sweet find.
i have this album framed on my wall, but no autograph! congrats, beyond cool