Robbins, Marty - Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs (360) - Hot Stamper

*NOTE: There is a mark that plays 6 times at a moderate level at the start of track 2 on side 1, "Cool Water." Two excellent sides, with the kind of 50s Tubey Magical analog sound that’s been lost to the world of recorded music for decades -- decades, I tell you! Nobody can manage to get a recording to sound like this anymore and it seems clear to us that no one can remaster a recording like this nowadays, if our direct experience with hundreds of such albums counts as evidence. Albums such as this live and die by the quality of their vocal reproduction. On this record, Mr. Marty Robbins himself will appear to be standing right in your listening room, along with the other other musicians on the sessions of course. Each of the huge studios the music was recorded in are captured faithfully here. The height, width and depth of the staging are extraordinary. We are not big soundstage guys here at Better Records, but we can’t deny the appeal of the three-dimensional space to be found on a r