Marshall Hail interviews singer-songwriter Marty Robbins, in town for two shows at Liberty Hall. The Chamber of Commerce hosted a luncheon for Robbins, whose song "El Paso" had sold 3½ million ...

Marty Robbins was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame on Oct. 11, 1982. Two months later, he was dead. Martin David Robinson was born in Glendale in 1925. It was a hardscrabble life ...

At nearly five minutes, Marty Robbins’ “El Paso” is the Infinite Jest of early chart-toppers. “El Paso” isn’t a dynamic song, exactly; it doesn’t swell with instrumentation as it ...