We often assume that musicians eat, sleep, and breathe their artistic craft, and while that’s often true, Marty Robbins used music as a means to an end to fund his true dream job: a stock-car racer.
On this day (June 24) in 1976, Marty Robbins was at the top of the Hot Country Songs chart with “El Paso City,” the sequel to his 1959 hit “El Paso.” It wasn’t the first time Robbins revisited the sad ...