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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 six 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 an early concept album, with songs centered around themes of outlaws and cowboy life. The album contains what is perhaps Robbins's most successful single, "El Paso," a major hit on both the country and pop music charts. The album also includes the song "Big Iron", which gained a resurgence in popularity online as an Internet meme after its inclusion in the 2010 video game Fallout: New Vegas. 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 aesthetically significant." From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunfigh...) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...)
