This is a music video that was shot and edited on 16mm film, based on the song, "Best Gal in the West," by Ed Finney (1945-2025), about a freewheeling cowboy who gives up his horse and saddle for his sweetheart in the city.

Songwriter/Performer: Ed Finney
Filmmaker (Writer/Director/Producer/Editor) Alexis Krasilovsky
Cinematography by Martin Duba
L.A. Uprising filmed by Alexis Krasilovsky
"Best Gal" Jennifer Snyder
Associate Producer, Reseda Mickey
MUSIC: Ed Finney, guitar, vocals; Doug Garrison, drums; Scott Lane; bass; Studio: Easley Recording, Memphis, Tennessee
2025 Sound Mastering, Ira Ingler
Lab, Fotokem
Digitization by Point 360
Sound Editor: Ann Krupa
Assistant Editors: Xochilt Baez and Wendy Tickell
Camera Assistants: Adam Baral, Melody Bean, Michael Buendia, Mike Drake, Adam Lieberman, Jeff Murray
Special Thanks: Deborah Abrams, Peter Attina, Art Black, Frontier Gun Shop, Hunewill Ranch, Myron Murakami, Stephanie Rude and Barry Shankman

Funded in part by a Western State Regional Media Arts Fellowship through Portland Art Museum Northwest Film Center. A Rafael Film Production.

Production format: 16mm

Open-captioned version also available.

Screened at the Athens International Film and Video Festival, May 1993 and at the 18th Annual Poetry Film/Video Festival, San Francisco, November 1994.

This music film's composer, Ed Finney, passed in August 2025, and the digital restoration of this film is in commemoration of his life as a musician.