The Iron Horse -John Ford's epic western - The Candlelight Guitarist

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4-time Academy Award winning director John Ford's first major film success, the 1924 silent film, The Iron Horse... with a new guitar-based score of selections from 10 albums by composer Bradley Powell (The Candlelight Guitarist). Grab some popcorn and sit back to watch one of the most influential Western genre films.

In 2011, this film was deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" by the United States Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry. The cast was a broad mix of ethnicities, including Chinese men who had worked as coolies building the Central Pacific. Members of Cheyenne, Paiute, Pawnee, and Sioux tribes played Native Americans in the film. Ford's upward angle as the locomotive advances over the camera in The Iron Horse became essential visual grammar for Westerns. It is reused in Sergio Leone's 1968 spaghetti western Once Upon a Time in the West. Ford's shot of the railroad slowly advancing on the workers laying its track is also quoted by Cecil B. DeMille in Union Pacific (1939) as well as Leone. The film's importance was recognized by the American Film Institute in the 2008 AFI's 10 Top 10, where it was nominated in the Western category. (source: Wikipedia)

CHAPTERS (music):
00:00 Passalaqua -by The Brad Powell Expdition
00:19 Bells of Eventide (feat. Ernie Nunez, bass)
03:13 Centerpiece (feat. Gilberto Hildavio, alto flute)
07:50 Seven Sunflowers
11:13 In The Moment
14:42 Mourner's Comfort
17:02 Forgive, Forget
18:28 Kindred Spirits
21:23 Listening (feat. Gilberto Hildavio, flutes)
24:38 Hummingbird Minuet
28:05 Cool Cowboy Glen (feat. Frank Sanchez, bass)
32:50 Waterwheel and the River
37:08 Enchanted Woods (Triptych)
40:53 The Crossing
44:22 Too-Ra-Loo-Ra-Loo-Ral (trad.)*
45:40 Teddy Bear's Joyful Jig
48:07 Our Share of Craziness (feat. Mark Massey, keys)
52:06 Pure In Heart
53:57 City on a Hill
56:38 Centerpiece (Gilberto Hildavio, alto flute)
57:58 Caterpillar Chaconne into Butterfly
1:01:47 Aura of Serenity
1:04:53 Cool Cowboy Glen (feat. Frank Sanchez, bass)
1:07:45 Cornucopia
1:10:21 Merciful
1:10:53 Aura Lea (trad.)*
1:11:30 Peacemakers
1:14:22 Faith Mountain (ft. Mark Massey, piano)
1:17:34 Ann and Andy's Ragtime Lullaby
1:20:39 All the Pretty Little Horses (trad.)*
1:24:51 Soledad Serenata
1:27:49 Simplest Possible Solution
1:30:57 Prelude For A Peak Experience
1:33:00 Teddy Bear's Joyful Jig
1:35:28 Prayer on the G String
1:37:39 Gazebolero
1:40:50 S.O.S. Blues - Brad Powell Expdition (feat. Jim Hughart, bass)
1:43:56 Donte's Dream - Brad Powell Expedition
1:46:14 Roots of a Troubadour (feat. Jenny Alinder, fiddle)
1:46:48 Wild Ponies
1:50:15 Peacemakers
1:54:08 You Are The Light
1:56:47 Cool Cowboy Glen (feat. Frank Sanchez, bass)
1:59:28 The Crossing
2:02:58 Hummingbird Minuet
2:05:51 City on a Hill
2:09:55 Bells of Eventide (ft. Ernie Nubnez, string bass)
2:13:19 The Eagle Within
2:17:23 Faith Mountain (ft. Paul seaforth, flugelhorn)
2:21:11 Bells of Eventide (ft. Ernie Nubnez, string bass)
2:22:17 Light in The Night (ft. Gilberto Hildavio, alto flute)
2:26:33 Thanksgivingsong

All music composed by Bradley Powell (except*)
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