Story Behind The Song

I wrote this song as a self-imposed assignment to come up with a piece of music in the style of the spaghetti-westerns of the 1960s. I've always loved this music from those films. I wanted to explore something of my own using similar sounds. This piece is the result of a few months work on the song ideas and arrangement I came up with. Not only did I have to spend some time working up my my whistling technique, I also called on my friend John Ryan to play the harmonica part to get that old-west vibe that I was going for. He nailed it.

Song Description

Spagetti-western/cowboy theme music inspired by the music used in films of the 1960s set in the old West. The real Lost Dutchman trail is not far from where I live in Arizona and has lots of inspiring views of the Superstition Mountains, home of the lege