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A cowboy and his horse, sitting by a campfire, strumming a guitar, watching the sun creep up over the mountains, or falling asleep with the Milky Way wrapping her starry eiderdown over the desert. A soft twang, the hum of the birds, the howl of the coyote. The thunder of hooves and the rattle of wheels, interspersed with the staccato of gunfire or the clackety-clack of the steam engine, perchance with a whoo-whoo from the whistle on top of the carriage. The piano in the house of ill repute, the harmonica of the cotton picker, the spinning reel in the movie theater. Take your pick. Rockstar took all these sounds of the Wild West and composed a lovely score with it in Red Dead Redemption. Music fills the silence and sets the atmosphere. RDR’s music is the atmosphere, and silence is part of the score.
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