A drive through West Texas going home to Arizona for Christmas changed a lot for Marty Robbins.
One of the eternal sons of Arizona music, the country legend was born a century ago in Glendale on Sept. 26, 1925 — born, as his son Ronny told the Independent in 2020, in the West Valley town “in the desert somewhere; I don’t know if they had a house or a tent.”
By the late 1950s Robbins was already one of country music’s most successful stars, with a string of hits including “I’ll Go On Alone,” “Singing the Blues,” and “A White Sport Coat (And a Pink Carnation).”
