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film poster for John Ford's The Searchers
The revival of Hollywood westerns means the return of the genre's classic iconography - fearless gunslingers, ruthless outlaws, tumbleweeds. It also means some increasingly unconventional musical scores. Today, we explore the changing sound of the movie western - from the classic era of John Wayne and Clint Eastwood to revivals like "3:10 to Yuma" AND "There Will Be Blood." Also: singer-songwriter Tyler Ramsey shares his latest album "Swimming Across the Sea," and performs live in our studio.
Western Soundtracks: Back in the Saddle
Just as Hollywood's latest crop of Westerns take a revisionist view of frontier life, their musical scores sound incredibly different from those of the classics of the 50s and 60s. Today, we look at the changing sound of the Western with Jon Burlingame, a film music historian who teaches at ...
Tyler Ramsey Live
Before singer and multi-instrumentalist Tyler Ramsey joined the critically lauded Band of Horses this year, he was a versatile solo artist and sideman in Asheville, N.C. We talk with Ramsey about how the slow, mournful sounds on his new CD "A Long Dream About Swimming Across the Sea" caught the ...