Biography of marty robbins books

The blending of Mexican and American music has inspired many recording artists during the middle of the Twentieth Century but few have been as compelling as singer-songwriter Marty Robbins whose single “El Paso” attracted audiences across the United States and as far reaching as Europe’s Sweden, Germany and Holland as well as the UK.

Author Diane Diekman takes audiences through the life and times of Marty Robbins in Twentieth Century Drifter named after one of Robbins’ singles. The book canvasses his youth in rural Arizona and his move to city life first relocating to Phoenix and then Nashville where he took off as country western artist.

Diekman shows Robbins was unlike his peers blending styles of music by infusing flowing waltzes with mariachi accents, rockabilly grooves with a bluesy voicing, and country western ballads with a folksy Hawaiian tincture.

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