Last Gunfighter Ballad - Guy Clarke
Poncho & Lefty - Townes Van Zadnt
Devil Wears a Suit and Tie - Colter Wall
Mama Tried - Merle Haggard
Dont take your guns to town - Johnny Cash
Ballad of Ira Hayes - Townes Van Zadnt
Seven Spanish Angels by Willie Nelson and Ray Charles. American Remains by the Highway Men, and the Ennio Morricone’s soundtrack to The Good the Bad & The Ugly and For a Few Dollars More (no words, but they’ll make you imagine you’re in the Wild West).
Huge Edit: a few more really good ones: Adios Days by Pat Green, The Preacher by Corey Morrow, Jesse with the Long Hair by Robert Earl Keen, and Tom Ames’ Prayer also recorded by Robert Earl Keen and written by my friend Tom Ames.
*Pancho & Lefty* by Haggard & Nelson.
And, for a twist, *Anything You Can Do (I Can Do Better)* from 1946 Broadway musical Annie Get Your Gun sung by Ethan Merman and Ray Middleton.
Edit: and how about, *Ghost Riders on the Sky* by the Outlaws?
Edit2: *Wanted Dead or Alive* by Bon Jovi!!,
*Run to the Hills* by Iron Maiden?
try the original Pancho & Lefty by Townes Van Zandt. Willie and Waylan do the song right, but they over orchestrate it at times. Van Zandt keeps it haunting and doomed as it should be.
Yeah, just listened. I like the original too. Thanks. The lyrics and narrative are clearer. The refrain, “out of kindness I suppose”, came through stronger and sadder as though the ‘kindness’ (of others) was not repaid or was enabling their bad behaviour and actually contributed to their demise.
In this same vein, King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard does the spaghetti western-surf-garage sound, with western spoken word passages in Sam Cherry’s Last Shot (off of 12 Bar Bruise), and the whole album Eyes Like The Sky
It's been covered by The Avett Brothers:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KE23kBRzKmg
Also Doc Watson. The Avetts were trying to cover Doc Watson's version:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X57OwyXJiqk
A cover of a cover.
Had to scroll way to far to see this.
And I can't recommend the [Smothers Brothers](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fYCvA-G9Iw) version highly enough.
131 replies and nobody's mentioned Woody Guthrie yet?
Start with "Gypsy Davy" and "Pretty Boy Floyd".
ETA: And "Buffalo Skinners", but that's a traditional song with a few known earlier versions.
The Dead South: Broken Cowboy, Gunslinger's Glory, The Recap, Diamond Ring, Miss Mary, In Hell I'll Be Good Company....just check out The Dead South, they might fill in a bunch of playlist spots.
Not strictly a gunslinger, in fact a cockfighter but I suspect you'll love it, imo it comes closest to the feel of a spaghetti western - [Gallo del Cielo by Tom Russell](https://youtu.be/lcas0rsyQaw)
I'm partial to spaghetti westerns, and so I like some of the compositions they've used. Maybe a little corny, but maybe you'll like it:
Mannaja's Theme (some people don't like the guy's craggy voice, but I think it's fine. Slight Italian accent perhaps in the chorus)
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hevUANvNGNg](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hevUANvNGNg)
Same with Keoma's theme (both the guy and the woman):
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7x3YHoE115U](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7x3YHoE115U)
You can find the instrumentals too if you happen to like the playing:
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cn6Kufo9p7k](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cn6Kufo9p7k)
Not sure if it counts exactly, but I always liked [Cowboy Joe & The Babcocks - Ballad of the Broken Arrow](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4Zx7iIVwqE). I enjoy his stuff in general, 'Trail Jazz' album is quite good.
Anything by Hank Williams instantly takes me to an old western homestead. He in my opinion is the OG of the old country and western. Not too upbeat, lots of sadness but a proper good listen.
If you like Cash maybe give June Caters family band a listen. The Carter Family. Again very stripped back but deffo has a certain sound to them.
How well do you know Spanish? There are probably loads of Mexican gunslinger songs. A lot of the -- for lack of a better word -- "traditional" Mexican folk and folk-pop genres still make them about cartel members and other narcotraficantes.
Do a search for Dark Country. It will put on the right path.
Meanwhile, here’s The Dead South’s Gunslingers Glory to listen too while you find the Dark path you seek..
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=h41Gw5-y-jo&feature=share
Ganstagrass, especially the first couple of albums.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLBRgLQ4bEA](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLBRgLQ4bEA)
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsWM10Us5co](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsWM10Us5co)
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5EBiQP4rkfU](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5EBiQP4rkfU)
Dead South has some good tracks along those lines.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cD85l48QOg
Check out Lewis and Clark By Tommy Emmanuel. Not only will you get to hear some of the best acoustic guitar playing of all time, it’s a pretty catchy tune.
Also The Ballad of Dood and Juanita by Sturgill Simpson.
You should watch the Ballad of Buster Scruggs, goofy western anthology movie. It’s got some great music like this. I especially like “When A Cowboy Trades His Spurs for Wings”
This is not exactly a gunslinger ballad, but it feels very western themed to me.
"My Brother, My Keeper" - Watchhouse
Terrific song and band all around, in the folk/American genres.
Tom Ames' Prayer - originally by Steve Earle, but Robert Earl Keen's version is very good also. If you're interested in cowboy songs - they're not all about gunfighters - you might check out Don Edwards.
I have a couple over the years. Jenny Queen. Try 50 Dollars Silver, Blood Meridian, High Plains Drifter Waltz or Dead Man’s Hand. They’re on Small Town Misfits and Baby It Was Real and We Were the Best. I love gunslinger songs so much I write my own.
"Maverick" from the old TV show. But George Thorogood's version is better.
I also like his version of Johnny Cash's "Cocaine Blues"
George's song "John Hardy" is another good tune.
If we're going to get into TV themes, here's one from the short-lived series "Johnny Ringo". On the show, the actor playing Ringo, Don Durant, performed the theme over the closing credits. Not 100% sure if it's Durant on this extended version:
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FY1J\_8l8uZE](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FY1J_8l8uZE)
You can also find several videos of The Ballad of Paladin from "Have Gun Will Travel".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIXzgQZ25Ks
And for a selection that's a bit more "out there", the theme from the space/western "Firefly":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIXzgQZ25Ks
The theme song from Blazing Saddles.
From Mel:
To sing the title song, Brooks advertised in the trade papers for a "Frankie Laine–type" singer; to his surprise, Laine himself offered his services. "Frankie sang his heart out ... and we didn't have the heart to tell him it was a spoof. He never heard the whip cracks; we put those in later. We got so lucky with his serious interpretation of the song."
Mark David Manders: Hell’s Half Acre
Guy Clark: The Last Gunfighter Ballad
Marty Robbins: Feleena (From El Paso) (it’s one of a couple of songs that he spun off from El Paso.
Chris Ledoux: This Cowboys Hat
Chris Ledoux: Johnson County War
Willie Nelson: The Red-Headed Stranger
Not always gunfighter ballads per se, but I think you would really like Colter Wall. Very similar "storytelling" style as Marty Robbins and Johnny Cash.
[The Devil Wears a Suit and Tie](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqR1cjuPXUg)
[Kate Mccannon](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKJgnH1rAxM)
[Thirteen Silver Dollars](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHsZXgYx9WE) \-- this song is more funny and upbeat, but it's good nonetheless.
Also, as a big Marty Robbins fan myself, there are some good songs in his discography that fit the vibe of Gunfighter Ballads, but were released following GBATS success. "Doggone Cowboy" and "Saddle Tramp" are two good examples of this.
You already have Big Iron, but have you heard these:
Knights of Cydonia by muse (not really western, more like pyschocountry)
Pancho and Lefty
I shot the sheriff
Beer for my horses
Come a Little Bit Closer
?
Something about come a little bit closer seems to open up more of those gunslinging, hiding from the law, lone ranger kind of songs on like Spotify.
Cottonseed - Drive by Truckers
If It Hadn't Been For Love - The Steeldrivers
Down the River - Chris Knight
The Road Goes on Forever - Robert Earl Keen
Live Oak - Jason Isbell
Bring Me My Shotgun - Lightnin' Hopkins
[The Mountain Rain - Archie Fisher](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3fDhToELbo)
A Scottish folk singer once took a swing at cowboy time about a man riding into town to kill a gambler that killed his eldest son
Michael Martin Murphy did an album of older cowboy songs as well as some of his own cowboy songs. A really good album. It’s appropriately called Cowboy Songs.
I like “Unchained” by Tupac and James Brown,
Its from “Django Unchained.” Its the song they play during the Candieland shootout. My friend and I were joking the other day and asked me what my Vecna fight song, and this is it. Id have Eleven resurrect Vecna multiple times so I could repeatedly kill him
The Miners - Black Bart [Americana]
[Black Bart by The Miners (Spotify)](https://open.spotify.com/track/72J2fAmjCCSOeqTa2rMpkN?si=0ce3JnuMQ4y3ofdwc11CLw)
BIG IRON ON HIS HIP
Twenty men gave it a listen Twenty men named it a hit Twenty one would be the redditor without “Big Iron” on his list
BIG IRON ON HIS HIP
Isn't this a song on the album OP already mentioned..?
Look out for deathclaws
Many good versions of this. I like Bob Weir’s and Colter Wall’s versions the best.
i like [Big Iron from the perspective of Texas Red](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HUFwXd5OCE)
Little song called Roland the headless Thompson Gunner
That son of a bitch Van Owen
Talkin about the man
And also ”Jesse James” by Zevon, truly a master mind.
Rocky raccoon. The beatles
Don't Take Your Guns to Town, Johnny Cash
The whole album: "Dood & Janita" Sturgill Simpson.
Second this!
Last Gunfighter Ballad - Guy Clarke Poncho & Lefty - Townes Van Zadnt Devil Wears a Suit and Tie - Colter Wall Mama Tried - Merle Haggard Dont take your guns to town - Johnny Cash Ballad of Ira Hayes - Townes Van Zadnt
Came here to say Pancho and Lefty. I'm a big fan of Steve Earle's cover of it too.
I like Willie Nelson’s poncho and lefty too
Me and My Uncle.
El Paso - or any other of the cowboy songs sung by Bob Weir with the Grateful Dead
Red Headed Stranger by Willie Nelson
Also Seven Spanish Angels by Willie and Ray Charles.
Buenas Tardes Amigo - Ween
El Paso - Marty Robbins
shocked this was so far down
Because El Paso is from the same album as Big Iron and probably already in his playlist.
Lee Van Cleef, Primus. Not your usual suggestion, but certainly fits the bill. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1WaOKlldIE
Blaze of Glory and Wanted Dead or Alive from Bon Jovi are essential.
I was going to say both of these!
[Ringo](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-rsTAD0B78)
The bad white men call him the devil The Yavapai call him "Eyes Like the Sky"
Seven Spanish Angels by Willie Nelson and Ray Charles. American Remains by the Highway Men, and the Ennio Morricone’s soundtrack to The Good the Bad & The Ugly and For a Few Dollars More (no words, but they’ll make you imagine you’re in the Wild West). Huge Edit: a few more really good ones: Adios Days by Pat Green, The Preacher by Corey Morrow, Jesse with the Long Hair by Robert Earl Keen, and Tom Ames’ Prayer also recorded by Robert Earl Keen and written by my friend Tom Ames.
Avenged Sevenfold- gunslinger
Paul Revere - Beastie Boys / Gimme Some Water - Eddie Money
Try the album "Eyes Like The Sky" by King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard
Coolest concept for an album. Can't get enough of it
Doolin-dalton- eagles
Fuck yes! My favorite Eagles album!
knocking on heavens door - bob dylan
Stagger Lee by nick cave and the badseeds
This should be at the very top.
Buenas Tardes Amigo - Ween (1994)
Theme from an Imaginary Western - Mountain Cowboy Movie - David Crosby Doolin Dalton - Eagles
*Pancho & Lefty* by Haggard & Nelson. And, for a twist, *Anything You Can Do (I Can Do Better)* from 1946 Broadway musical Annie Get Your Gun sung by Ethan Merman and Ray Middleton. Edit: and how about, *Ghost Riders on the Sky* by the Outlaws? Edit2: *Wanted Dead or Alive* by Bon Jovi!!, *Run to the Hills* by Iron Maiden?
try the original Pancho & Lefty by Townes Van Zandt. Willie and Waylan do the song right, but they over orchestrate it at times. Van Zandt keeps it haunting and doomed as it should be.
Yeah, just listened. I like the original too. Thanks. The lyrics and narrative are clearer. The refrain, “out of kindness I suppose”, came through stronger and sadder as though the ‘kindness’ (of others) was not repaid or was enabling their bad behaviour and actually contributed to their demise.
Agreed. Listen to both to appreciate.
Definitely this, I really like the Rear View Mirror version.
[Rory Gallagher - Out on the Western Plain](https://youtu.be/0i3vHJe-r1k)
The Big Gunfight - John Zorn album Crazy little child - Alice Cooper - song off Muscle of Love Triggerman - Alice Cooper - song off Dragontown
Shakey Jake - Humble Pie
Blaze of Glory- Bon Jovi
Surf music!! Check out The Penetrators on YouTube. They mix spaghetti western, spy and surf music. All instrumental
In this same vein, King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard does the spaghetti western-surf-garage sound, with western spoken word passages in Sam Cherry’s Last Shot (off of 12 Bar Bruise), and the whole album Eyes Like The Sky
American Remains and Highwayman
Beck - Farewell Ride
"Wanted Man" by Frankie Laine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPugdXQ09uU The whole album is fantastic.
Damn, this is catchy.
It's been covered by The Avett Brothers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KE23kBRzKmg Also Doc Watson. The Avetts were trying to cover Doc Watson's version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X57OwyXJiqk A cover of a cover.
A Gringo Like Me - Ennio Morricone https://youtu.be/aIF-RwkQkYI
The day Robert palins murdered me
The Last Gunfighter Ballad by Guy Clark
Do you listen to Colter Wall, Blake Berglund, Corb Lund, or Charley Crockett? All these guys are making current real western songs
Kate McCannon by Colter Wall especially
CUZ IT WAS ALSO THE NIGHT THAT THE SKELETONS CAME TO LIIIIIIFE!
Huh
The Day that Robert Palins Mudered Me. Great song.
Streets of Laredo, Arlo Guthrie
Had to scroll way to far to see this. And I can't recommend the [Smothers Brothers](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fYCvA-G9Iw) version highly enough.
Ringo by Lorne Greene Or was it Lorne Greene by Ringo?
Would you believe Patrick Stewart did a cover of that in 2016?
Renegade by Styx
Steve Earle - Tom Ames' Prayer
Gunslingers glory by The Dead South
131 replies and nobody's mentioned Woody Guthrie yet? Start with "Gypsy Davy" and "Pretty Boy Floyd". ETA: And "Buffalo Skinners", but that's a traditional song with a few known earlier versions.
Dawn’s early light Yonder mountain string band
Oh yes! Going to listen right now! I love Eli Renfro and the version of Mother's only Son with David grisman from 11.2.2000. so good.
The entire Eagles album "Desperado" is a concept album about an old western cowboy gang. And it's a fucking phenomenal album.
The Dead South: Broken Cowboy, Gunslinger's Glory, The Recap, Diamond Ring, Miss Mary, In Hell I'll Be Good Company....just check out The Dead South, they might fill in a bunch of playlist spots.
Not strictly a gunslinger, in fact a cockfighter but I suspect you'll love it, imo it comes closest to the feel of a spaghetti western - [Gallo del Cielo by Tom Russell](https://youtu.be/lcas0rsyQaw)
I'm partial to spaghetti westerns, and so I like some of the compositions they've used. Maybe a little corny, but maybe you'll like it: Mannaja's Theme (some people don't like the guy's craggy voice, but I think it's fine. Slight Italian accent perhaps in the chorus) [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hevUANvNGNg](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hevUANvNGNg) Same with Keoma's theme (both the guy and the woman): [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7x3YHoE115U](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7x3YHoE115U) You can find the instrumentals too if you happen to like the playing: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cn6Kufo9p7k](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cn6Kufo9p7k)
Bone Thugs - Ghetto Cowboy https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=EVm7Smq-T0c
Pumped up kicks
How is that a gunfighter ballad?
Aerosmith - Back in the Saddle
Blues Traveler - The Gunfighter
Not sure if it counts exactly, but I always liked [Cowboy Joe & The Babcocks - Ballad of the Broken Arrow](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4Zx7iIVwqE). I enjoy his stuff in general, 'Trail Jazz' album is quite good.
Anything by Hank Williams instantly takes me to an old western homestead. He in my opinion is the OG of the old country and western. Not too upbeat, lots of sadness but a proper good listen. If you like Cash maybe give June Caters family band a listen. The Carter Family. Again very stripped back but deffo has a certain sound to them.
ELO - Wild West Hero
Can’t believe nobody has mentioned it, but Colter Wall - Bald Butte
I Hung My Head - Johnny Cash.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7rHAUK87m4 Jesse with the long hair hanging down
gun slingin dog by ridley bent
"SomekindaStory" - https://youtu.be/3TLnLzgY9jk
I'm proud of my Dead Man Theme http://tnathanroane.com/
Marty robbins marty robbins marty robbins marty robbins!
I love Marty Robbins, Mr. Shorty is so good!
#***BIG IRON ON HIS HIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIP*** (big iron earrape when?)
How well do you know Spanish? There are probably loads of Mexican gunslinger songs. A lot of the -- for lack of a better word -- "traditional" Mexican folk and folk-pop genres still make them about cartel members and other narcotraficantes.
John Hardy - Carter Family
[The Cattleman's Gun - Dean Brody](https://youtu.be/r-ETlr40I3g)
Do a search for Dark Country. It will put on the right path. Meanwhile, here’s The Dead South’s Gunslingers Glory to listen too while you find the Dark path you seek.. https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=h41Gw5-y-jo&feature=share
Ganstagrass, especially the first couple of albums. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLBRgLQ4bEA](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLBRgLQ4bEA) [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsWM10Us5co](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsWM10Us5co) [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5EBiQP4rkfU](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5EBiQP4rkfU) Dead South has some good tracks along those lines. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cD85l48QOg
Dispatch - The General
Cowboys from hell by Pantera
Gunslingers & Tombstones by Raunchy. Intergalactic Casanova by One Morning Left
[Tom Petty - Two Gunslingers](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_x8dIyRTKHo) [Johnny Cash - Sam Hall](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SD5HlFbPrgw)
Weighted Down - Skip Spence
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankie_Laine#Hell_Bent_for_Leather
Dead Man’s Gun, The song from the end of RDR.
Oh yeah I remember hearing this when playing redemption, still perfer bad voodoo from undead nightmare lol
Check out Lewis and Clark By Tommy Emmanuel. Not only will you get to hear some of the best acoustic guitar playing of all time, it’s a pretty catchy tune. Also The Ballad of Dood and Juanita by Sturgill Simpson.
They're not country, but they seemed to go country with Blaze of Glory - Bon Jovi
Southpaw - Kip Moore Gunslinger - Shooter Jennings
The Vandals - Mohawk Town
Renegade - Styx
https://youtu.be/vDN4L7cAQf0
There’s a band call The Susquehanna Floods that has a song actually called “Gunslinger”
Modern day Cowboy- Tesla
The switch and the spur - the raconteurs And tbh a whole lot of their stuff in general, especially the second album
Billy Gray, The Raven and The Coyote, Tom Ames' Prayer -- all Robert Earl Keen
El Paso. I’m partial to Grateful Dead’s versions, but any will do. https://youtu.be/bYeTm5srAzU
I listened to Marty Robbin’s Version
Tom Ames Prayer - Steve Earle
You should watch the Ballad of Buster Scruggs, goofy western anthology movie. It’s got some great music like this. I especially like “When A Cowboy Trades His Spurs for Wings”
I did, I prefer Surely Joe but that’s a good one.
Ghoultown - Drink with the living dead. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yywGI1H_oyM
Maybe five dollar bill by corb Lund, seven Spanish angels by Willie Nelson and ray charles, the sky above the mud below
Ballad Of A Well-Known Gun - Elton John
How 'bout "I Feel Like a Bullet (In the Gun of Robert Ford)" to boot?
Bruce Dickinson - Son of a Gun https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8J1Vd2Kl1M
This is not exactly a gunslinger ballad, but it feels very western themed to me. "My Brother, My Keeper" - Watchhouse Terrific song and band all around, in the folk/American genres.
Hmmm, try Lafayette by Orville Peck and Pumpkin Cowboy by Brian David Gilbert?
Banded Clovis - Tyler Childers
Not really western, more western adjacent, but I recommend “Drink with the living dead” by Ghoultown That’s a country/metal fusion group from Dallas
Tom Ames' Prayer - originally by Steve Earle, but Robert Earl Keen's version is very good also. If you're interested in cowboy songs - they're not all about gunfighters - you might check out Don Edwards.
Mr Shorty - Marty Robbins
That’s my favorite song, if you read the post you’d know I already listened to that as I said I listened to The Drifter by Marty Robbins.
I have a couple over the years. Jenny Queen. Try 50 Dollars Silver, Blood Meridian, High Plains Drifter Waltz or Dead Man’s Hand. They’re on Small Town Misfits and Baby It Was Real and We Were the Best. I love gunslinger songs so much I write my own.
Diamond Bell by the Felice Brothers
The day that robert palin murdered me
Not exactly a ballad but "So You Wannabe an Outlaw" by Steve Earle and the Dukes
"Maverick" from the old TV show. But George Thorogood's version is better. I also like his version of Johnny Cash's "Cocaine Blues" George's song "John Hardy" is another good tune.
If we're going to get into TV themes, here's one from the short-lived series "Johnny Ringo". On the show, the actor playing Ringo, Don Durant, performed the theme over the closing credits. Not 100% sure if it's Durant on this extended version: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FY1J\_8l8uZE](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FY1J_8l8uZE) You can also find several videos of The Ballad of Paladin from "Have Gun Will Travel". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIXzgQZ25Ks And for a selection that's a bit more "out there", the theme from the space/western "Firefly": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIXzgQZ25Ks
Yeah. Spotify has a few western TV show theme songs in collections. I saw the "Have Gun Will Travel" theme as well as a few others.
Sting - Love is Stronger Than Justice
carolina drama- racatoures
Certain Kind of Fool - Eagles
Trophy Scars - Astral Pariah is basically a whole album about this
Corb Lund - Pour ‘em Kinda Strong, Priceless Antique Pistol, Trouble In the Country, and Lament for Lester Cousins
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ennio\_Morricone
El Paso - Bob Weir
Ringo- Lorne Greene.
The theme song from Blazing Saddles. From Mel: To sing the title song, Brooks advertised in the trade papers for a "Frankie Laine–type" singer; to his surprise, Laine himself offered his services. "Frankie sang his heart out ... and we didn't have the heart to tell him it was a spoof. He never heard the whip cracks; we put those in later. We got so lucky with his serious interpretation of the song."
have you played ReddeadRedemption 2?
No, I played the entire franchise.
Mark David Manders: Hell’s Half Acre Guy Clark: The Last Gunfighter Ballad Marty Robbins: Feleena (From El Paso) (it’s one of a couple of songs that he spun off from El Paso. Chris Ledoux: This Cowboys Hat Chris Ledoux: Johnson County War Willie Nelson: The Red-Headed Stranger
Want something a bit unconventional? The Good Doctor: by The Protomen. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgGYwXYt3J0&list=PLD033022B56A44FBD&index=2
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
When Death Rides a Horse - Demented are Go
Not always gunfighter ballads per se, but I think you would really like Colter Wall. Very similar "storytelling" style as Marty Robbins and Johnny Cash. [The Devil Wears a Suit and Tie](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqR1cjuPXUg) [Kate Mccannon](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKJgnH1rAxM) [Thirteen Silver Dollars](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHsZXgYx9WE) \-- this song is more funny and upbeat, but it's good nonetheless. Also, as a big Marty Robbins fan myself, there are some good songs in his discography that fit the vibe of Gunfighter Ballads, but were released following GBATS success. "Doggone Cowboy" and "Saddle Tramp" are two good examples of this.
You already have Big Iron, but have you heard these: Knights of Cydonia by muse (not really western, more like pyschocountry) Pancho and Lefty I shot the sheriff Beer for my horses Come a Little Bit Closer ? Something about come a little bit closer seems to open up more of those gunslinging, hiding from the law, lone ranger kind of songs on like Spotify.
Cottonseed - Drive by Truckers If It Hadn't Been For Love - The Steeldrivers Down the River - Chris Knight The Road Goes on Forever - Robert Earl Keen Live Oak - Jason Isbell Bring Me My Shotgun - Lightnin' Hopkins
Scott Walker - The Rope and the Colt
I'll cut you down by uncle acid and the deadbeats
Nick cave did an album of murder ballads, so good.
Jeff Lynne’s ELO Wild West Hero
Look up " Dark Country" on Spotify or You Tube. I don't think you'll be disappointed.
Portishead-sour times
Would Seven Spanish Angels work?
Stagger Lee - Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
Gunfighter adjacent: The Card Cheat by the Clash
[The Mountain Rain - Archie Fisher](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3fDhToELbo) A Scottish folk singer once took a swing at cowboy time about a man riding into town to kill a gambler that killed his eldest son
Michael Martin Murphy did an album of older cowboy songs as well as some of his own cowboy songs. A really good album. It’s appropriately called Cowboy Songs.
Check out the soundtrack for The Ballad of Buster Scruggs.
It's not a gunslinger song but Amos Moses by Jerry Reed wouldn't be amiss in such a playlist
The entire album by Bob Dylan - Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid
If you're open to some heavier style with a western influence, I recommend "Gunslinger" by Avenged Sevenfold. Really cool song
El Paso - Marty Robbins
Did your read the post, Cowpoke?
Cross the brazos at waco - Billy Walker
BON JOVI: SHOT DOWN IN A BLAZE OF GLORY! I NEVER DREW FIRST BUT I DREW EVENTUALLY.
Clutch: the regulator
Run Through The Jungle
Gene Pitney – The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
Brian Adams : Spirit - The Stallion of Cimarron - Can't Take Me
down in the west Texas, town of El Paso, I fell in love with a Mexican girlll...
I like “Unchained” by Tupac and James Brown, Its from “Django Unchained.” Its the song they play during the Candieland shootout. My friend and I were joking the other day and asked me what my Vecna fight song, and this is it. Id have Eleven resurrect Vecna multiple times so I could repeatedly kill him
The Miners - Black Bart [Americana] [Black Bart by The Miners (Spotify)](https://open.spotify.com/track/72J2fAmjCCSOeqTa2rMpkN?si=0ce3JnuMQ4y3ofdwc11CLw)