Written by Marty Robbins, “El Paso” was first released on his Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs album in September 1959.

We often assume that musicians eat, sleep, and breathe their artistic craft, and while that’s often true, Marty Robbins used music as a means to an end to fund his true dream job: a stock-car racer.

This week in 1960, Marty Robbins' Columbia Records single "El Paso" was in the middle of its chart run after entering the country music charts in November 1959 and topping both the pop and country ...

Eighty-eight years ago today, the singer and songwriter who was the younger brother of an outlaw country legend was born in Nebraska.