I was at my folks’ house in Nashville at the end of the week and they’d Tivo’s Marty Robbins–Seems Like Yesterday on PBS. If you have any doubt about how prolific and talented Marty Robbins was, you need to check this out. My mom couldn’t believe that he was singing live in all of the [...]
Patrick at ThisIsTexasMusic has an article about Lone Star beer’s contest to select an unofficial National Anthem of Texas.
He has all the nominees listed on his site, but I figured I’d pick out a few of my favorites of the classics. I’m not a Texan, so I don’t know if my vote counts..
Waltz Across Texas [...]
This is one of my all time favorite story songs. The cool thing about Marty Robbins’s story songs is that they all sound just like western movies. In this one, a small cowboy is getting picked on in a saloon by another cowboy who insists on calling him “Shorty”. “Shorty” informs the man quickly that [...]
Marty Robbins had a ton of great story songs about the old west. They sound like the screenplays for (really good) western movies, but his incredible voice makes them. Even though El Paso was probably a bigger hit for him, “Big Iron” is the song that made me a die hard Marty Robbins Fan.
Ironically, I’d [...]
Okay, first things first…
If this song came out today there would be more than a couple of people upset with the lyrics. Some would be upset that the boy in the song is called “crippled”. Others would be bothered by Red saying “you better believe I rode that Teddy Bear.” Others would [...]
