To my uneducated ear the tunes sang thrillingly and tenderly. Much has been made of one six-minute sequence, uninterrupted by plot, where Redman's Young and Craig Handy's Hawkins stand off and draw. More remarkable is how well the music consistently underscores the rest of the movie, now tellingly, now with great irony. Altman opens Kansas City with a political rally at a train station, and ends it with a shot of Seldom Seen counting out dollar bills at the Hey Hey Club, surrounded only by three musicians who play on. Explaining once to Johnny why he's not dead yet, Seldom calls his attention to the piano playing in the next room.
Music is as good a reason as anything.
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