Six decades before genre-blending became the norm in country music, a singer raised in poverty outside Glendale, Arizona, transformed musical storytelling with nothing more than an acoustic guitar and ...

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.

You don’t need a beautiful voice to be a good storyteller, but as Marty Robbins proved time and time again, it certainly helps. Across his 50 studio albums and 100 singles, Robbins demonstrated his ...

Among the songs in the catalog acquisition are his signature hits "El Paso" and "Big Iron." By Jessica Nicholson Anthem Music Publishing has acquired a catalog of songs written and recorded by Country ...

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 ...

In September 1959, country star Marty Robbins released his song "El Paso," which by early the next year hit No. 1 on both the country and pop charts. The song introduced the world to a restaurant in ...

Anthem Music Publishing announces the acquisition of legendary Country and Western singer-songwriter Marty Robbins’ song catalog. Anthem Music Publishing has acquired the catalog of songs from ...