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It had to be this song and it had to be this movie...
Thank you, Willem, for encouraging me and for the song and all the vinyls :-)

When I uploaded the video for the first time it was the day (May 9, 2009) when Stephen was crossing another border for no return, and I didn't know about it then. He also had some tiny scenes in the movie, even with the dancing scene here, but I didn't catch him for the vid...

We miss you, Stephen. R.I.P.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5P-q7Nmy9s
http://www.vimeo.com/7830161

You won't really notice him in the vid; he is just sitting down to the fiddle player's right playing the guitar... If I had known... I would have put in the 2 seconds with him and the guitar and a dusty face that were near the end of the dance scene in the movie.

The song is from the album "Music from Songwriter" (1984)

The album was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song Score, losing out to Prince's "Purple Rain"

I was deeply impressed by the movie "Heaven's Gate" (1980). Bought the DVD and watched it despite of the many bad reviews that it had received from American critics... To me it's hard stuff, but kind of a masterpiece, and the subject is interesting, I had never heard of that war before.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnson_County_War

I haven't read really unfair reviews in German about it, although the selfish cowards among the immigrants again speak German (in the German dubbed movie they speak Russian ;-)).
The real Ella Watson and Jim Averell both were lynched in the Johnson County War.

It's nice to have it on DVD, so I can take my time to watch it