Key to evoking the era are in-game radio stations that players can tune into as they wander around the desert, not unlike the car radio in Grand Theft Auto. Set in the aftermath of a nuclear apocalypse, Fallout leans heavily on tropes from early in the Cold War period. The “Big Iron” resurgence can be traced back to 2010, when it was included in the video game Fallout: New Vegas. On Spotify, “Big Iron” is Robbins’s most-played song at 23 million streams, 7 million more than “El Paso,” his biggest hit. It’s seen in image macros, and TikTok videos. The proliferation of “Big Iron” memes online now can seem odd, given that the song is now 60 years old. In a duel, the ranger shoots and kills Texas Red with the “big iron on his hip.” “Big Iron” is a standard Western tale: An Arizona ranger comes to town hunting an outlaw named Texas Red, a vicious killer with 20 notches on his gun symbolizing the people he’s killed. Unmentioned, however, is “Big Iron,” a song which, more than three decades after Robbins’s death, has become a meme. The obituary lists many famous songs of Robbins’s - “El Paso,” “My Woman, My Woman, My Wife” (which he won a Grammy for as well), “Tonight Carmen,” “Devil Woman,” “Teen-age Dream.”

He was also a professional race car driver, and at one point survived a 150-mile-an-hour crash at the 1972 Daytona 500. He was a member of the Grand Ole Opry, the Nashville Songwriters’ Hall of Fame, and the National Cowboy Hall of Fame. Born in Glendale, Arizona, Robbins served in the Navy before becoming a professional musician. 1 country hits, 12 of which he wrote himself.” His most famous song, “El Paso,” was one of the first Western songs to win a Grammy award and sold more than a million copies. At the time of his death, an obituary in the New York Times noted his many achievements: “He recorded nearly 70 albums and had 18 No. The famed country singer Marty Robbins passed away in 1982.

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