Six tales of life and violence in the Old West, following a singing gunslinger, a bank robber, a traveling impresario, an elderly prospector, a wagon train, and a perverse pair of bounty hunters.
From Blood Simple to the new The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, we take a look at the offbeat stylings of Academy Award-winners Joel and Ethan Coen.
Roma
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
BlacKkKlansman
True Grit
Burn After Reading
Hail, Caesar!
Isle of Dogs
Annihilation
The Big Lebowski
The guitar that Buster plays is a modern reissue of a 1930's Recording King single 0 RPS-7. Relaunched in 2007 and featuring new and classic designs, the Recording King brand started out as an exclusive brand of the mail-order giant Montgomery Ward and, as it could be ordered out of a catalog, it became very popular during the thirties and forties. The best-known player of Recording Kings was the highly influential "American primitive" musician, the late John Fahey.
Buster Scruggs (segment "The Ballad of Buster Scruggs"):
A song never fails to ease my mind out here in the West, where the distances are great and the scenery monotonous. Additionally, my pleasing baritone seems to inspirit ol' Dan here and keep him in good heart during the day's measure of hoof clops. ...
In "Near Algodones" the words in the book reference the "First National Bank" but on the actual bank it says "First Federal Bank".
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