The Ballad of Buster Scruggs is the latest Coen Brothers film, which is available to watch now on Netflix. The film is a six-part Western anthology film about the American frontier.
One of the best parts of the film is the first segment “The Ballad of Buster Scruggs,” where the film got its title from. In it, Tim Blake Nelson stars as a singing cowboy with a wicked quick draw. One of the songs is “When A Cowboy Trades His Spurs For Wings,” a song that was written by the always great songwriting duo of Gillian Welch and David Rawlings and performed by Willie Watson and Tim Blake Nelson in the film.
It’s a great song on its own right but certainly a perfect fit for the scene that it’s used for in the film.
Enjoy a stream of the song below and you can find the soundtrack available to purchase at Milan Records.
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