Marty Robbins - Sundown / The Texas Ranger
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@splrong6 Sorry, I think you're wrong. Sykes's song, SUNDOWN 1st appeared on Robbin's '76 album EL PASO CITY, which apparently notes a Texas town. Thaxton is described as old in the gunfighter days (1865-1900) so he would have been a legendary ranger ("one of the bravest and best of the bold") many years before. This only makes sense if Sykes intended for him to be a Texas Ranger. The Arizona rangers weren't formed until 1901 and didn't last long. They had few members and fewer heroes/ stories.
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WHAT THE OLD RANGER WAS BLIND?????????? wow didnt see that coming
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@splrong6 i reckon if we could ask martty he would say that bill is the ranger form big iron but he probbaly went on to become a texas ranger
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I do believe Bill was the ARIZONA ranger from Big Iron!! Looked for this song for over 20 years, used to be called the Ballad of Bill Thaxton. Just can't find it anywhere. THANKS FOR THE POST!!!!
3 weeks ago 2
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This song was written by Bobby Sykes...who was the baritone in Marty's trio for more than 20 years. He told me he got the idea for the song from a Time-Life compilation of western stories.
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I read this stroy in the old 6"x5" Western Comics in the seventies.
4 weeks ago 2
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someone could turn this and the song "Hurry Sundown" into a hell of a novel
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@nilton8198 Actually this is the ballad form of C&W. When I was young the only C&W I really liked was ballads. As I got older and had more life experience I learned to appreciate other forms of C&W. What I hate is the ones who think they have to be like rock stars to be good. Rock is rock, country is country, and rockabilly is some of both and some of neither. But I still love these ballads best.
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Nobody sang like Marty Robbins or did a country ballad like him. when Iwant to hear country song Ilisten to Marty it kinda makes me feel blue I 'm so glad he left us so much. Dereck Siteman
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F14ace 1 year ago 31
Well, Gruffy, Sundown (later called The Ballad of Bill Thaxton) apparently appeared for the first on Robbin's 1976 album El Paso City, but I don't if it's on any later ones. Good luck finding it somewhere.
PanVet100 1 year ago 10