Hell on High – Original Motion Picture Soundtrack scores a revisionist Western where the canyon fire is judgment, confession, and revelation all at once. Saloon pianist August Reed (our narrator) watches a thirsty town held in the fist of Luther Brand, a mine and water baron who finds “beauty in the blaze” when the gorge finally burns. Across fifteen tracks, the album shifts between soulful saloon songs, hard campfire harmonies, and wide, cinematic score: August’s gentle “Little Lights in the Valley,” Mara Linwood’s flinty work-song “What My Hands Can Hold,” Calder Pike’s posse anthem “Keepers of the Line,” and Brand’s chilling creed “Beauty in the Blaze.” Instrumental cues ride the posse through chaparral, follow August saving children through smoke, and carry Brand to his last choice at the gate, ending in a quiet reprise as the town walks the ash of Hell on High and counts what’s left worth saving.

Runout Through the Chaparral

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