RANCHO DELUXE

Jeff Bridges and Sam Waterston star as an oddball team of modern-day cattle rustlers in this “quirky inventive portrait of the no longer wild West” (Newsweek). If you’re ready for a little not-so-innocent frontier fun for “some desire under the elms...some smoldering glances at the OK Corral” then head straight for Rancho Deluxe.

Montana’s Big Sky country is the setting for this whacked-out Western that “literally litters the landscape with the crazed descendants of those hardy pioneers whose covered wagons have been replaced by ubiquitous pickup trucks” (L.A. Herald Examiner). Among these deviated denizens are Slim Pickens as a crafty old stock detective Harry Dean Stanton and Richard Bright as a pair of clumsy cowhands and Clifton James and Elizabeth Ashley as a bored couple from Schenectady who bought their ranch with the profits from a chain of beauty parlors.

Jimmy Buffett was already three well-received albums towards becoming a populist phenomenon when he undertook his only film score (to date) director Frank Perry’s 1975 “modern” Western Rancho Deluxe.

Buffett’s songs and incidental music for this underappreciated antecedent to the likes of Clint Eastwood’s Bronco Billy (including an early version of the hit Livingston Saturday Night) have a raw honky-tonk swagger that would’ve done Waylon or Willie proud. More than merely a welcome addition to the Parrothead canon Rancho Deluxe proves to be an anti-Nashville country classic.

1. Rancho Deluxe ? Main Title (2:09)
2. Ridin’ In Style (1:02)
3. Left Me With A Nail To Drive (1:30)
4. Cattle Truckin’ (1:25)
5. Countin’ The Cows Ev’ry Day (2:21)
6. The Wrangler (2:06)
7. Rancho Deluxe ? End Title (2:52)
8. Livingston Saturday Night (3:26)
9. Some Gothic Ranch Action (1:23)
10. Wonder Why You Ever Go Home (1:45)
11. Fifteen Gears (2:11)
12. Can’t Remember When I Slept Last (1:36)
13. Rancho Deluxe (1:38)