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Published: August 15, 2008
Spindrift finds renewed inspiration in old movies
By Gene Triplett
When the hero rode into the sunset in so many of the old-school Westerns that usually signaled the end of the movie, but Kirpatrick Thomas ' westward ride marked a new beginning for his then 9-year-old band called Spindrift .

It was 2001, and just before leaving his old East Coast stomping grounds behind, Thomas saw "Once Upon a Time in the West” for the first time, and heard that majestic score by Ennio Morricone...

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