I remember when Lonesome Dove first aired on CBS in 1989. It was a Sunday night and nothing else was on, so I left it on channel 2, here in New York.
The first 35 minutes or so was very slow. So I watched it and read a baseball mag a the same time, not thinking much of the mini series thus far.
Then came the scene when Gus and Widrow stampeded a herd of cows across the border from Mexico and stopped reading when I heard the most rousing Western theme I had ever listened to in my life! I’m talking better than The Magnificent 7 or Big Country.
I said, “Whoa! What the hell is this?”
It was the music that grabbed my attention and from that point forward, the action was non-stop and I was hooked, moth open, totally blown away at what I was watching.
Robert Duvall gave an unbelievable performance and cemented his place as the greatest Western hero second only to John Wayne.
