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During his three decades as a country music performer, Marty Robbins (1925-1982) placed 94 songs on Billboard's country music charts, with sixteen number-one hits. In addition to two Grammy awards, he was also honored with the Man of the Decade Award from the Academy of Country Music in 1970. His Hawaiian songs, rockabilly hits, teen-angst ballads, pop standards, and country & western classics showcased his exceptional versatility. Yet even with fame and fortune, Robbins always yearned for more. Twentieth Century Drifter: The Life of Marty Robbins is the first biography of this legendary country music artist and NASCAR driver._x000B__x000B_Drawing from personal interviews and in-depth research, biographer Diane Diekman explains how Robbins saw himself as a drifter, a man always searching for self-fulfillment and inner peace. Born Martin David Robinson to a hardworking mother and an abusive alcoholic father, he never fully escaped the insecurities burned into him by a poverty-stricken nomadic childhood in the Arizona desert. As Diekman describes, he spent his early teens in trouble with the law and worked an assortment of short-term jobs after serving in combat in World War II. _x000B__x000B_In 1947 he got his first gig as a singer and guitar player. Too nervous to talk, the shy young man walked onstage singing. Soon he changed his name to Marty Robbins, cultivated his magnetic stage presence, and established himself as an entertainer, songwriter, and successful NASCAR driver. As NASCAR's Bobby Allison said, \"He started out being a singer driving a race car, but he became a race car driver who could sing.\"_x000B__x000B_For fans of Robbins, NASCAR, and classic country music, Twentieth Century Drifter: The Life of Marty Robbins is a revealing portrait of this well-loved, restless entertainer, a private man who kept those who loved him at a distance.

MEETEETSEE, Wyo. - Perched in his wheelchair, \"Big Jim\" Blake confidently rolls the wooden floors of his old shoot-'em-up saloon founded here in 1893. The history of the Cowboy Bar is populated with drifters, outlaws and outliers, and its present proprietor brims with wild yarns and tall tales. Big Jim truly is a big, big man who once weighed 550 pounds. Still, his large frame is always on the move. Wheeling along the ornate wooden bar shipped here in 1893 from the Chicago World's Fair, he proudly patrols this watering hole where a young Butch Cassidy once downed shots of whiskey before his arrest here for horse rustling. \"This is big country, Big Jim says of the rolling hills outside his bar. \"If the sheriff's upriver, it'll take him two hours to get here. Several possible buyers have contacted [Sharron] and the couple's daughter-in-law, whose names are now on the deed. \"If somebody walks in here with cold hard cash, those two ladies are going to take it, Big Jim frowns. \"If I don't agree, I'm going to be very unpopular with the woman I love.

The double CD, Marty Robbins: 20th Century Drifter/The MCA Years is a treasure trove of neglected nuggets by this fondly remembered, awesome Arizona talent. Even though he was a solid gold plated country superstar, he stood with me watching the crowd take their seats - unrecognised for the most part in his ordinary man donkey jacket and jeans. Onstage he came to life as the great artist he was - wowing his Northern Ireland fans with his wonderful repertoire of songs. A 20th Century country legend.

Why, as a youngster, I was attracted to a song with adult themes, I don't know. I just loved it. [Marty Robbins] becomes tangled up in a gunfight in the Texas town of El Paso. A gunslinger tries to steal his girl, wicked Faleena, and after a fast draw shoot-out in Rosa's cantina, the young gun dies. The Robbins character flees the scene, wanted by the law, but he can't resist seeing Faleena again. Returning to town (\"my love is stronger than my fear of death\"), he too comes to a sticky end (\"cradled by two loving arms that I'll die for\"). There have been many story songs, but El Paso is a ballad like no other.

Cradled at the base of Mount Juneau and encircled by the 17 million-square-mile Tongass National Forest (the country's largest), Juneau (pop. 31,000) is about as remote a town as you'll find anywhere. With no roads reaching it -- accessible only by air or sea -- owning a second home here is one of the more extreme examples of getting away. That's why it landed on the radar of Marty Robbins. \"I realize it's a bit out of the way, but there's absolutely nothing like it anywhere in the lower 48. I can guarantee that,\" he said. \"Arriving here feels like touching down in an exotic land. It's easy to forget that you're still in the United States, at least until you see the American flags flying on front porches.\" \"It's a long way from New Jersey, but that's what makes it so appealing to me. Coming here really means not only leaving my worries behind, but everything else, too,\" Robbins said. \"In our world there are relatively few places where you can do that with a certain level of comfort. Juneau is one such place.\"

\"Henderson County has long been a bastion for the arts -- all type of art,\" said Ruth Birge, interim executive director of the United Way and former publisher of the Times-News. \"I'm delighted to be the Honorary Chair for 'The Arts Council Presents.'\" More than 25 additional arts events are planned throughout the county, including: \"[Marty Robbins]'s El Paso\" at Flat Rock Playhouse; Shakespeare's \"Midsummer Night's Dream - Southern Style\" by the Absolute Theatre Company at the Blue Ridge Performing Arts Center, \"God's Favorite\" at the Hendersonville Little Theatre, and \"Dear Zelda\" at The evolving Arts Gallery and the Henderson County Heritage Museum at the Historic Courthouse. Music will include the final concert of the season of Summer Music in Flat Rock and Keyboard Brilliance by the Hendersonville Symphony Orchestra with special guest artist Marina Lomazov.

Everything must have an official label. In this case, it's the \"Road to Recovery\" program -- not exactly original, yet worth a chuckle and endless possibilities. Give a name and official status to something, and it's only a matter of time -- anybody else foresee something called, for instance, \"The Pilot Travel Centers Road to Recovery Program, Presented by Betty Ford\"?

\"Oh, you know the song,\" he said. \"It's a famous song. One of those Southern cowboy songs.\" \"I can't remember the words!\" he said. \"But it's a famous song! He's one of these Southern cowboy-type guys who's in love with this girl. She's Mexican, I think. Mmm ... mmm ... mmm ... a cute Mexican girl. I think it's called 'Rosalita.' Does that sound familiar?\" \"I'm pretty sure it's a girl's name,\" my father said. \"Read me the titles.\"

\"Any time you do something for the first time it's really exploratory. You just want to pace yourself,\" he said of the strategy for the wheeled marathon. \"If you ride at a comfortable pace and not overdue it, it should work out fine.\" \"He's won four Trans-Rockies races, so he's done this before and knows the pitfalls and obstacles.\" Photo: Paul vanPeenen, NOW / ALL-TERRAIN BICYCLE: Coquitlam's Dave Mountain has upped his training the past few months in preparation for the Pacific Traverse, which starts this weekend. The mountain bike race begins in Victoria and ends up in Whistler. ;