In the American West of the 1870s, a European settler, Jon Jensen (Mads Mikkelsen), has just welcomed his wife and son to the country when they are kidnapped and murdered. [ … ]
Month: February 2018
Killer Deacon Miller – Ruthless Asassasin
Deacon Miller was a little man who was quiet, and never cussed. He dressed like a traveling minister, and was an avid churchgoer. At the same time, this Jekyll-Hyde character [ … ]
Johnny Cash’s “Unearthed” Returns As Nine-LP Vinyl Box Set
In November 2003, two months after Johnny Cash’s death, producer Rick Rubin’s American Recordings label released Unearthed, a sprawling box set including mostly previously unreleased songs recorded during the last decade [ … ]
You Are Respectfully Invited to Attend My Execution
You Are Respectfully Invited to Attend My Execution, Larry K. Brown, High Plains Press, (1-800-552-7819), $11.95, Paperback. Between 1871 and 1890, seven murderers were hanged in Wyoming Territory. Some others [ … ]
True Grit (2010) – Brooding Gothic Western Style
On the surface it would seem that in remaking the 1969 John Wayne film True Grit, the Coen brothers (Ethan and Joel) have remade a good film into a great [ … ]
Wrong Men Hanged From The Gallows
It was 1864 in Jackson County, Missouri. Two men, Dick Merrick and Jeb Sharp had murdered a horse trader by the name of John Bascum. The two men were arrested [ … ]
Doc Holliday Custom Hat – Bronco Sue Hats
Bronco Sue has been making hats for 21 years and has just won True West Magazine’s Best of The West Readers Choice award for Best Western Hat Maker 2017. They [ … ]
The Great Silence – One Of Tarantino’s Big Influences
The Great Silence (Italian: Il grande silenzio), also known by its alternative UK title The Big Silence, is a 1968 revisionist Spaghetti Western film directed and co-written by Sergio Corbucci. It is also one of filmmaker Quentin Tarantino’s [ … ]
Heathen Apostles – Bloodgrass Vol. I
Heathen Apostles are launching a series of EPs, united by one theme, a new bluegrass style. In hearing the prominent gothic americana / dark country of the project it is properly [ … ]
A Man Called Hawken – A Tale of Western Horror
In A Man Called Hawken, Kitchell Hawken is a scout, bounty hunter, killer-for-hire: he is alot of things – most of them bad. He was scalped, tortured, and left for [ … ]