Though it might be frustrating for music collectors to replace outmoded editions of their favorite albums, it's hard to find fault in the glut of CD reissues in the '90s. After all, if a disc can ...

• To see Robbins perform “El Paso” live, visit https://youtu.be/ mL6puxUeIqU. The first record I recall is Marty Robbins’ “Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs.” We lived in a trailer my family dragged ...

While many of its individual songs—”El Paso,” “Big Iron,” “Cool Water”—are standards, Marty Robbins’ Gunfighter Ballads & Trail Songs is one of the most consistently mind-blowing records to drop ...

At first glance, they read like the lyrics of a lost Marty Robbins gunfighter ballad. What they are in fact are the opening lines to “Wiseman” a masterpiece by Frank Ocean, who wrote the tune for the ...