Ragged But Right
In many ways, the story of Atlanta, Georgia's Skillet Lickers, is the story of early country music. When the South's first commercial radio station, WSB, began broadcasting live hillbilly music in...
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  One of modern country music's true giants, Marty Robbins spent over 30 years on the charts, and was still in the Top 10 when he died in 1982 at age 57. From the start, his talents and tastes were as expansive as the Arizona prairie where he was born and raised. He made rocker Chuck Berry's "Maybelline" a country hit in 1955, gave pop composer Burt Bacharach his first #1 ('58's "The Story Of My Life"), and when Americana became the rage in 1959, he provided its defining moment with the self-penned, panoramic "El Paso." Graced by Grady Martin's Mexicali-flavored guitar work, it won the first Grammy ever awarded a country song.

(M. Robbins); Produced by Don Law; Marty Robbins, guitar, vocal; Grady Martin, lead guitar; Jack Pruett, guitar; Bob Moore, bass; Louis Dunn, drums; The Glaser Brothers, background vocals; Rec. Nashville, April 7, 1959. Columbia 4-41511 (mx. CO 63103); Originally Released 1959