What A Good Score! – #36: The Music of Red Dead Redemption II by Daniel Lanois and Various Artists

What A Good Score is a new series here at Off The Tracks – looking at movie soundtracks, the good, the band and the astounding…

I am not a gamer, not really; not ever. My interest in gaming was always fleeting — I gave it a nudge back in the C64 days, and that’s it. I owned a Playstation, and even a PS3, I’ve got a retro Nintendo and now and then I’ll play Dr. Mario or Pac-Man and that’s about it.

But I do like video game music, and just the very concept of it — I once went to a…