Behind the Scenes of the Red Dead Redemption Soundtrack

Check out our Behind the Scenes documentary of the recording and creation of the Red Dead Redemption soundtrack. Bill Elm and Woody Jackson, along with a team of accomplished session players put together a captivating reimagination of the old American West, and we caught it all on video with interviews and insight from the players as they recorded stem after emotive stem for the interactive in game soundtrack.

[bigsmoke]

Even at the age Tommy was when he did this, he could still pull it off.

Rest in peace Tommy Morgan 1932 - 2022

[lPinkRainn]

the brilliance of this game will never be compared to any other game

[broms]

When your music students say "hey watch this."

Thanks guys.

[o_o]

what a great job rockstar, I am hoping to see that in RDR 2

[joeylatz]

I love rdr2 but the first one had the best soundtrack without a doubt. Every song has so much emotion and just purely badass. Great job to the people all involved in this game

[KillerAssassin]

I hope the soundtrack for RDR2 is as good as RDR. RDR soundtrack was absolutely amazing.

[waynepayne]

I would never go to an orchestra normally but if there was an orchastraical music event where they played RDR soundtrack I'd pay whatever it cost.

[killinator]

rockstar, there was this one time when i went into mexico the first time you set foot on it, it was night, and when looking at the beautiful mexican landscape with all the stars and the moon in just the right position while listening to far way by Jose was one of the greatest times in my entire life.... thank you rockstar... and thumb up if you want rockstar to look at this thank you note

[fafafagat]

1:16 by the way he's dressed I do not doubt that.

[DougUnfunny]

They nail the score. I love triggernometry.

[wheresmyeyebrow]

Hope we get a Behind the Scenes for RDR2

[justlooking]

When I'm in the desert I feel like I'm in the game and when I'm playing the game I feel like I'm really in the desert

[garretsimpson]

2:32 this guy should have been in the game. Just in the corner of a saloon somewhere. :P

[marcrorrel]

3:06 you can spot someone using this at rhodes

[blueberrybleach]

1:50 I deadass replayed this part so many times 😂

[NorthWriter]

The instrument at 2:46 is called a Marxophone.

[OleR.]

I swear this is still golden after a decade.
We thought there's no way to do better soundtracks... but with RDR2.. you know what I'm talking about.

[nickbuckley]

Red dead redemption 1 and 2 are fantastic westerns for old and young people in a new way of experiencing stories

[trainknut]

As much as I love the second game... I think the original RD Redemption had the better soundtrack, RDR just had so much character and was absolutely overflowing with atmosphere.
Redemption 2 does sell the 1899 setting very well, but it feels less like a western and more like a game that happens to be set in the 1890s.

If they do end up remaking the first game's story in the second game as DLC, as many have been predicting they will, I really hope they bring back the old soundtrack with it, because so much of that game was in it's music.

[struggle]

this explains why theres so much love for the RDR sound track