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Title: Brilliantly evocative of the mythological West
Review: This upgraded reissue presents potent, early work that is essential to Robbins' catalog. Sony has cleaned up the audio, added new liner notes and augmented the original disc with bonus tracks.Robbins' 1959 LP is oddly anachronistic, having ridden a wave of Old West nostalgia that is now itself 40 years old. Even so, his highly-romanticized images of cowboys and outlaws are as captivating today as the (single!) day on which this album was recorded. Robbins' singing is breathtaking, backed perfectly by the Glaser Brothers and spiced with Grady Martin's Mexicali-flavored guitar. Classics like "Big Iron" and "El Paso" linger in the air like the smell of sagebrush, resulting in an album whose allure is as strong as its mythological subjects.
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