Faron Young and Marty Robbins newsletter — 25 January 2012

This periodic newsletter commemorates the lives of Faron Young and Marty Robbins. The University of Illinois Press is ready to publish Twentieth Century Drifter: The Life of Marty Robbins and to reissue Live Fast, Love Hard: The Faron Young Story in soft cover. Both books are available for preorder: Twentieth Century Drifter: The Life of […]

Faron Young and Marty Robbins newsletter — 4 January 2012

POLITICAL OPINIONS OF MARTY ROBBINS I came across a Marty Robbins recording of “Ain’t I Right” on YouTube and thought I would post it so everyone could hear his opinion of politicians and communism in 1966:  http://www.youtube.com/embed/-sEqzEgDZ0g. Marty told an interviewer, “I thought it was a hit. At the time there was a lot of […]