Western Music: Saturday Music Club on Thursday

Ennio Morricone: Per Qualche Dollaro in Piu (For a Few Dollars More)(live performance, with a few flubs)

Per Qualche Dollaro in Piu original recordings

Gustav Holst: "Jupiter, Bringer of Jollity" from The Planets

(inspiration for no few Hollywood western themes)

Jerome Moross: The Big Country

Joseph Horowitz: "Composing the American Frontier" (NPR article/playlist) includes performances of 

Virgil Thomson: The Plow that Broke the Plains (excerpt)

Aaron Copland: "Billy the Kid" (excerpt)

Antonin Dvorak: "Suite in A"  (excerpt)

Roy Harris: "Symphony No. 3" (excerpt)

Arthur Farwell: "Navajo Dance No.2"

immediately after each, an NPR news report will begin, jarringly

Leigh Harline: Warlock

Aaron Copland: Rodeo

Hot Rize: "Western Skies"

Hot Rize as Red Knuckles and the Trailblazers

The Texas Playboys and Asleep at the Wheel:

Mary Youngblood: "Hearts Desire"

The Modern Folk Quartet: "Ox Driver"

Odetta: 900 Miles

Johnny Cash: "Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie"

John Carroll and the Marx Bros.: "Riding the Range"