Cold Mountain

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Cold Mountain 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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Tracks
1Wayfaring Stranger - Jack White
2Like A Songbird That Has Fallen - Reeltime Travelers
3I Wish My Baby Was Born - Tim Eriksen, Riley Baugus & Tim O'Brien
4The Scarlet Tide - Alison Krauss
5The Cuckoo - Tim Eriksen & Riley Baugus
6Sittin' On Top Of The World - Jack White
7Am I Born To Die? - Tim Eriksen
8You Will Be My Ain True Love - Alison Krauss
9I'm Going Home - Sacred Harp Singers At Liberty Church
10Never Far Away - Jack White
11Christmas Time Will Soon Be Over - Jack White
12Ruby With The Eyes That Sparkle - Stuart Duncan & Dirk Powell
13Lady Margret - Cassie Franklin
14Great High Mountain - Jack White
15Anthem - Gabriel Yared
16Ada Plays - Gabriel Yared
17Ada And Inman - Gabriel Yared
18Love Theme - Gabriel Yared
19Idumea - Sacred Harp Singers At Liberty Church
20Idumea - Sacred Harp Singers At Liberty Church



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