Cold Mountain | Various Artists, Gabriel Yared, ...

Cold Mountain | Various Artists, Gabriel Yared, ... | Haunting... lyrical... beware....

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Cold Mountain

	Cold Mountain Various Artists, Gabriel Yared, ... Sony, 2003 average customer review:based on 83 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Director Anthony Minghella's take on Charles Frazier's bestselling novel is powered by wistful romanticism and a dramatic structure that's been compared to Homer's Odyssey. That latter creative tack parallels the Coens' O Brother, Where Art Thou in crucial ways, and is further enhanced by another T-Bone Burnett-produced soundtrack of Appalachian-inflected folk traditionals, sympathetic originals by diverse songwriters (Elvis Costello and Sting), and a core of gritty performances (the White Stripe's Jack White and Alison Krauss) that rise above mere star appeal. White shows his traditional blues jones is no mere affectation on "Wayfaring Stranger" and a cover of Howlin' Wolf's "Sittin' On Top of the World," then makes a rewarding turn into the wistfully romantic with his original "Never Far Away." Krauss gives a haunting performance of Costello's "The Scarlet Tide," but doesn't fare as well with Sting's plaintive, Celtic-tinged "You Will Be My True Love." The soundtrack's evocative sense of time and place is further underscored by traditionals performed by a slate of other bluegrass/country-folk heavyweights and a powerful pair of gospelized, almost ethereal performances by the Sacred Harp Singers at Liberty Church. A few of Gabriel Yared's gentle orchestral cues (crucial to the film's characters and dramatic continuity) are essentially tacked on as the coda to the remaining collection of earthy Americana. Dark, dusty, and ever bittersweet, Burnett's musical archaeology here is something considerably more than merely "O Brother Redux." --Jerry McCulley

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Awesome Album

T-Bone Burnet ("O Brother Where Art Thou?") has done it again with another collection of folk and americana music. This album contains a good variety of civil-war and similar sounding music. I highly recommend it.

Haunting... lyrical... beware....

While you may not love every track, you will, if you are a music lover, appreciate The Scarlet Tide and You Will Be My Ain True Love. Gorgeous melodies and poignant lyrics there. And beware; the score will take you right back to Cold Mountain, conjuring up images and whatever it was you experienced at the fate of Inman.

Cold Mountain CD

After seeing the video, I knew I wanted a copy of the music. I was pleased to find there is more to the audio than was included in the movie, and the music, as I expected, it outstanding.

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Tracks
Wayfaring Stranger - Jack White | Like A Songbird That Has Fallen - Reeltime Travelers | I Wish My Baby Was Born - Tim Eriksen, Riley Baugus & Tim O'Brien | The Scarlet Tide - Alison Krauss | The Cuckoo - Tim Eriksen & Riley Baugus | Sittin' On Top Of The World - Jack White | Am I Born To Die? - Tim Eriksen | You Will Be My Ain True Love - Alison Krauss | I'm Going Home - Sacred Harp Singers At Liberty Church | Never Far Away - Jack White | Christmas Time Will Soon Be Over - Jack White | Ruby With The Eyes That Sparkle - Stuart Duncan & Dirk Powell | Lady Margret - Cassie Franklin | Great High Mountain - Jack White | Anthem - Gabriel Yared | Ada Plays - Gabriel Yared | Ada And Inman - Gabriel Yared | Love Theme - Gabriel Yared | Idumea - Sacred Harp Singers At Liberty Church | Idumea - Sacred Harp Singers At Liberty Church

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