A lonely Westerner in Nashville, Marty Robbins salved his soul by cutting an album (in one afternoon) of mostly self-composed cowboy ballads. One of them was a four-and-a-half-minute epic, "El Paso," that broke every rule of Top 40 programming to become a No...

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A lonely westerner in Nashville, Robbins salved his soul by cutting an album (in one afternoon) of mostly self-composed cowboy ballads. One of them was a four-and-a-half-minute epic, "El Paso," that broke every rule of Top 40 programming to become a No...

The Cavalier Ballads of England, like the Jacobite Ballads ofEngland and Scotland at a later period, are mines of wealth for thestudent of the history and social manners of our ancestors. Therude but often beautiful political lyrics of the early days of theStuarts were far more interesting and important to the people whoheard or repeated them, than any similar compositions can be in ourtime...