I don't know most of his work, but I've had two channels into it in my life. 1. I have distinct childhood memories of the score from Once Upon a Time in the W

I don't know most of his work, but I've had two channels into it in my life. 1. I have distinct childhood memories of the score from Once Upon a Time in the West from when my dad watched it (and then watching it myself). It still stirs something deep, that's not just nostalgia. 2. Following Mike Patton's musical journey and finding the haunting version The Ballad of Hank McCain in collaboration with John Zorn - from an album composed entirely of covers of Ennio Morricone tracks (The Big Gundown). I'll need to educate myself further.