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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Raido Free America" data-source="post: 4139864" data-attributes="member: 45328"><p>In my opinion Marty Robbins was a great singer/song writer, that literally invented a new type song with El Paso! Being a guitar player I appreciate some of the guitar music in some of his recordings. I heard a interesting story on the recording  of El Paso. There are great guitar licks continuously, throughout this song, and no two are the same, that is hard to do!! Plus the guitar used in this session was an old arch top Gibson, acoustic, the ones with high arching top, and F holes. These guitars are not very good for picking, and were mostly used by big band, western swing, playing cords for rhythm. I don't think anyone even makes the type guitars commercially any more. That was a strange choice for this incredible recording, but the dull, drown like sound was very unique, and gave this recording a different fell, and fit well with the story! I don't remember the guys name that played this, but he was very good!!</p></blockquote><p></p>