About This Song
About "A Methodist and a Son of a Bitch" by Carter Burwell
Burwell's score is a dry, dusty hymn for a frontier funeral. The title's jarring juxtaposition—piety and profanity—hangs in the air like gunsmoke. A slow, mournful melody underscores the moral ambiguity of the West, where salvation and damnation share the same pew.