You see, there are two types of people in this world. Those who don’t make incredible music videos and those who do. Billy Strings And Bryan Schlam? That’s what they do.

It’s hard to put into words how impressed we are with the new spaghetti western-inspired clip for Mr. String’s latest single, “Seven Weeks In County,” and it’s even harder with this crappy 90-second vertical Instagram -Reel to suit.

To cut a long story short: whatever sauce directors like Sergio Leone And Sergio Corbucci who made their spaghetti in the sixties, director Bryan Schlam has managed to reverse engineer them and create one of the most authentic homages to the genre that looks, feels and sounds like we’ve ever seen.

“I watched every spaghetti western I could get my hands on to prepare it. I used elements of my favorite films, mainly “Django” for the coffin, “A Few Dollars More” for the pocket watch, “The Good The Bad and The Ugly” for the hanging, and “The Big Gundown” for budget cutscenes. The Gatling gun was a motif that I loved and that was in a lot of Westerns, so I had to put that in there (as well).”

“We shot at Luck Ranch, which is located at Willie Nelson’s house. The bar was part of the Redheaded Stranger set, but the interior had been renovated, so I had our production designer Dakota and his art team recreate the old one. We even adapted the original wallpaper.”

“We filmed as practically as possible – we used CO2 cartridges to create real bangs from the weapons, fireworks to break the rope for the hanging scene, and even a camera mounted on a weapon for the shot from the Run – the rig was hilarious.”

“What you see was shot digitally but then transferred to film – giving it that vintage ’60s look. The aim was to try to match Sergio Leone’s spaghetti western in terms of aesthetics and give it a cinematic and vintage touch. We wanted to stay away from American-Western references and keep everything Italian.”

“There were even fake Italian versions of our names in the opening credits. Maybe it was a bad decision to say ‘Directed by Bruno Sclavi’ in big letters instead of my name, but I had to stay committed.”

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