All Around Cowboy is Marty Robbins' final collection of Western tunes, functioning as a sequel of sorts to his 1959 classic Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs.
Produced by Billy Sherrill, All Around Cowboy is much softer than Gunfighter Ballads, both in sound and intention.
Sherrill doesn't drape the album with excessive strings but keeps things lush, adding echoes to the acoustic guitars and vocals, threading in mariachi horns and choirs.
There are tips of the hat to Robbins' past -- "San Angelo" can be seen as a sequel to "El Paso," the cowboy standard "Tumbling Tumbleweeds" is revisited -- and that only adds to the sweet, hazy nostalgia of the project and complements Robbins' easy charm.
There's no grand concept here, no conscious revisiting of Robbins' roots, but that's what's good about All Around Cowboy: it reveals an old cowpoke casually returning to what he loves most and it's hard not to find that endearing.
| Title/Composers | Performer | Listen | Time | Size | Size | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | All Around CowboyMarty Robbins | Marty Robbins | Play | 03:04 | 7 MB | 0 MB |
| 2 | The DreamerMarty Robbins | Marty Robbins | Play | 04:01 | 9 MB | 0 MB |
| 3 | Pride and the BadgeMarty Robbins | Marty Robbins | Play | 05:52 | 13 MB | 0 MB |
| 4 | Restless CattleMarty Robbins | Marty Robbins | Play | 02:35 | 5 MB | 0 MB |
| 5 | Buenos Dias ArgentinaBen Raleigh | Marty Robbins | Play | 03:15 | 7 MB | 0 MB |
| 6 | Lonely Old BunkhouseMarty Robbins | Marty Robbins | Play | 02:17 | 5 MB | 0 MB |
| 7 | San AngeloMarty Robbins | Marty Robbins | Play | 04:31 | 10 MB | 0 MB |
| 8 | Tumbling TumbleweedsBob Nolan | Marty Robbins | Play | 02:51 | 6 MB | 0 MB |
| 9 | When I'm Gone (Single Version) | Marty Robbins | Play | 02:11 | 5 MB | 0 MB |
| 10 | Ballad of a Small Man | Marty Robbins | Play | 04:02 | 9 MB | 0 MB |
| 34 mins | 79 MB | |||||
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| Artist | Job | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lou Bradley | Engineer |
| 2 | Jeff Chandler | Vocals (Background) |
| 3 | Steve Hoffman | Remastering |
| 4 | B. Johnson | Design |
| 5 | Slick Lawson | Photography |
| 6 | Jean Lusby | Typesetting |
| 7 | The Nashville Edition | Vocals (Background) |
| 8 | Bob Nolan | Composer |
| 9 | Jennifer Passamano | Pre-Production |
| 10 | Sam Passamano, Jr. | Reissue Producer |
| 11 | Ben Raleigh | Composer |
| 12 | Marty Robbins | Composer, Guitar, Primary Artist, Vocals |
| 13 | Marty Rosamond | Reissue Design |
| 14 | Billy Sherrill | Producer |
| 15 | Bobby Sykes | Vocals (Background) |
| 16 | Virginia Team | Design |
| 17 | Don Winters | Vocals (Background) |
| 18 | Donnie Winters, Jr. | Vocals (Background) |
| Quality | Format | Encoding | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Standard | MP3 | 320kps 44.1kHz | MP3 is an audio coding format which uses a form of lossy data compression. The highest bitrate of this format is 320kbps (kbit/s). MP3 Digital audio takes less amount of space (up to 90% reduction in size) and the quality is not as good as the original one. |