Marty Robbins

He had enough confidence in his abilities that he decided to move to Nashville and take a shot.

He was an excellent piano player and got a job tickling the Ivies for Marty Robbins, a big star at the time.

I'll definitely be doing an episode on Marty, but let's keep the focus on Bobby.

He wrote a song for Marty that he actually recorded called While You're Dancing, and it was his first charted hit.

Don Williams, saw him.

Marty Robbins, saw Marty Robbins.

Tammy Wynette, Loretta Lynn, Dolly Parton, Johnny Cash.

My Oak Ridge boys, Statler brothers, few times, man, we saw them.

Here's a text from Texas George, formerly of Ogallala.

Hey, Connor, Big Iron is also the name of a legendary country classic gunfighter ballad by the great Marty Robbins.

Probably his best known Old West song after El Paso.

In the town of El Paso.

I know about Red Dead Redemption.

I know about El Paso.

I know about Marty Robbins.

You know Marty Robbins? I don't know him

And I, Bryce sent it to me.

I said, man, where have you been hiding this one? It fits me so well, you know, it's kind of a throwback to some of the old Marty Robbins type stuff, even a little bit, but Bryce and, uh, and Sean camp wrote it and we, we tracked it and it turned out so cool.

And then I never knew it was going to be the title track.

I just, I just love the song and, it fit me, like I said, to a tee.

It's music that's kind of a big range of Americana-type hits.

He was born and raised in rural England, but he was taken with cowboy lore and stories early on and related country ballads from Marty Robbins and Johnny Horton.

Well, remember the Tumbleweed Connection kind of had some of that vibe.

Remember that? One of the early, I think, 1970s when that came out for Elton John.

A gentle reminder that dark times pass and the better days are ahead.

Then we finish with Marty Robbins singing Helen.

You're broken down and tired of living life on the merry-go-round.

And you can't find a fighter.

Big and heavy, and I bought some just like him later.

My wife, Kristen, Ann Murray and Marty Robbins, two names that don't pop up in your life every day anymore, had the best sequence of the right music that had the right beat to it.

And I had a portable one that I could plug in this old Ford pickup.

And then I had the one that was mounted in the dash aftermarket.