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What is most notable about the soundtrack to Ang Lee's Brokeback Mountain is the original score by Argentinian music wizard Gustavo Santaolalla (producer of the grand Café Tacuba recordings and a songwriter in his own right, as evidenced by his two albums, Gas and Ronroco). His interludes and cues evoke the very landscape that Lee portrays in his film, but there are also some fine vocal performances by a star-studded cast of singers. Willie Nelson's read of "He Was a Friend of Mine," complete with squeezebox and layered acoustic guitars, is gorgeous. Emmylou Harris' performance of Santaolalla and Bernie Taupin's "A Love That Will Never Grow Old" is simple, spare, and poignant. The shuffling honky tonk ballad that Santaolalla wrote for Mary McBride, with its crying pedal steel, hits close to the bone and evokes Patsy Cline. Likewise, the hard-driving country of "I Will Never Let You Go," written for Jackie Greene, is tough and tender. Santaolalla's cues, like the best of Ry Cooder's film scores, touch the film's scenery, move its narrative, and pricelessly frame it in time. Teddy Thompson and Rufus Wainwright team for a throwaway country-swing version of Roger Miller's "King of the Road," but Thompson does a fine job on the Santaolalla and Taupin tune "I Don't Want to Say Goodbye," which is as heartbroken a ballad as one is likely to hear. This is an utterly wonderful soundtrack that could have done without Linda Ronstadt's version of Buddy Holly's "It's So Easy," Steve Earle's "The Devil's Right Hand," or even Wainwright's "The Maker Makes," but this is a small complaint.
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David Campbell, String Arranger, AssociatedPerformer - Gustavo Santaolalla, Composer, Producer, Organ, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Anibal Kerpel, Producer, Associate Producer, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Bob Bernstein, Pedal Steel, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2005 Focus Features, LLC
Willie Nelson, MainArtist - Mickey Raphael, Harmonica, AssociatedPerformer - Larry "Rock" Campbell, Producer, Co-Producer - Bob Dylan, ComposerLyricist - Gabe Witcher, Fiddle, AssociatedPerformer - Tony Garnier, Acoustic Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Gustavo Santaolalla, Producer, Co-Producer - Anibal Kerpel, Mixer, Hammond B3, AssociatedPerformer, StudioPersonnel - George Recile, Drums, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2005 Dreamworks Records, a division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
David Campbell, String Arranger, AssociatedPerformer - Gustavo Santaolalla, Producer, Guitar, Organ, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Anibal Kerpel, Producer, Mixer, Associate Producer, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Bob Bernstein, Pedal Steel, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2005 Focus Features, LLC
Emmylou Harris, MainArtist - Bernie Taupin, ComposerLyricist - Gabe Witcher, Fiddle, AssociatedPerformer - Gustavo Santaolalla, Producer, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Anibal Kerpel, Mixer, Hammond B3, AssociatedPerformer, StudioPersonnel - Bob Bernstein, Pedal Steel, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2005 Focus Features, LLC
Dean Parks, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Matthew Johnson, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - David Mansfield, Mandolin, AssociatedPerformer - LARRY KLEIN, Producer, Additional Producer, Co-Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Roger Miller, ComposerLyricist - Helik Hadar, Recording Engineer, Co-Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Teddy Thompson, Producer, Co-Producer, MainArtist - Rufus Wainwright, Producer, Co-Producer, MainArtist - Steve Addabbo, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Rich Ruttenberg, Piano, AssociatedPerformer - Jeffrey Hill, Upright Bass, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2005 The Verve Music Group, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
David Campbell, String Arranger, AssociatedPerformer - Gustavo Santaolalla, Composer, Producer, Organ, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Anibal Kerpel, Producer, Associate Producer, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Bob Bernstein, Pedal Steel, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2005 Focus Features, LLC
Ray Kennedy, Producer, Mixer, Electric Guitar, Recording Engineer, AssociatedPerformer, StudioPersonnel - Dan Dugmore, Steel Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Steve Earle, Producer, Mixer, MainArtist, StudioPersonnel, ComposerLyricist - Greg Morrow, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Carmella Ramsey, Fiddle, AssociatedPerformer - Gary Tallent, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Patrick Earle, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2005 E-Squared, LLC/ Sheridan Square Entertainment Inc.
Mike Turner, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - BOB GLAUB, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Gabe Witcher, Fiddle, AssociatedPerformer - Gustavo Santaolalla, Producer, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Anibal Kerpel, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Tony Peluso, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Mike Clarke, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Mary McBride, MainArtist - Bob Bernstein, Pedal Steel, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2005 Focus Features, LLC
David Campbell, String Arranger, AssociatedPerformer - Gustavo Santaolalla, Composer, Producer, Organ, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Anibal Kerpel, Producer, Associate Producer, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Bob Bernstein, Pedal Steel, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2005 Focus Features, LLC
Mike Turner, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Bernie Taupin, ComposerLyricist - BOB GLAUB, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Gabe Witcher, Fiddle, AssociatedPerformer - Gustavo Santaolalla, Producer, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Anibal Kerpel, Mixer, Piano, AssociatedPerformer, StudioPersonnel - Tony Peluso, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Teddy Thompson, MainArtist - Mike Clarke, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Steve Addabbo, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Bob Bernstein, Pedal Steel, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2005 The Verve Music Group, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Jeremy Spillman, ComposerLyricist - BOB GLAUB, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Gabe Witcher, Fiddle, AssociatedPerformer - Randy Crenshaw, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - Gustavo Santaolalla, Producer, ComposerLyricist - Anibal Kerpel, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Tony Peluso, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Mike Clarke, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Jackie Greene, MainArtist - Bob Bernstein, Pedal Steel, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2005 The Verve Music Group, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
David Campbell, String Arranger, AssociatedPerformer - Gustavo Santaolalla, Composer, Producer, Organ, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Anibal Kerpel, Producer, Associate Producer, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Bob Bernstein, Pedal Steel, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2005 Focus Features, LLC
Mike Turner, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - BOB GLAUB, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Gabe Witcher, Fiddle, AssociatedPerformer - Gustavo Santaolalla, Composer, Producer, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Anibal Kerpel, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Tony Peluso, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Mike Clarke, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - The Gas Band, MainArtist - Bob Bernstein, Pedal Steel, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2005 Focus Features, LLC
Linda Ronstadt, MainArtist - Buddy Holly, ComposerLyricist - Norman Petty, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1977 WEA International Inc., Licensed courtesy of Warner Music Australia Pty Limited
David Campbell, String Arranger, AssociatedPerformer - Gustavo Santaolalla, Composer, Producer, Organ, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Anibal Kerpel, Producer, Associate Producer, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Bob Bernstein, Pedal Steel, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2005 Focus Features, LLC
Rufus Wainwright, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2005 Geffen Records
David Campbell, String Arranger, AssociatedPerformer - Gustavo Santaolalla, Composer, Producer, Organ, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Anibal Kerpel, Producer, Associate Producer, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Bob Bernstein, Pedal Steel, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2005 Focus Features, LLC
Gustavo Santaolalla, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2005 Focus Features, LLC
Album review
What is most notable about the soundtrack to Ang Lee's Brokeback Mountain is the original score by Argentinian music wizard Gustavo Santaolalla (producer of the grand Café Tacuba recordings and a songwriter in his own right, as evidenced by his two albums, Gas and Ronroco). His interludes and cues evoke the very landscape that Lee portrays in his film, but there are also some fine vocal performances by a star-studded cast of singers. Willie Nelson's read of "He Was a Friend of Mine," complete with squeezebox and layered acoustic guitars, is gorgeous. Emmylou Harris' performance of Santaolalla and Bernie Taupin's "A Love That Will Never Grow Old" is simple, spare, and poignant. The shuffling honky tonk ballad that Santaolalla wrote for Mary McBride, with its crying pedal steel, hits close to the bone and evokes Patsy Cline. Likewise, the hard-driving country of "I Will Never Let You Go," written for Jackie Greene, is tough and tender. Santaolalla's cues, like the best of Ry Cooder's film scores, touch the film's scenery, move its narrative, and pricelessly frame it in time. Teddy Thompson and Rufus Wainwright team for a throwaway country-swing version of Roger Miller's "King of the Road," but Thompson does a fine job on the Santaolalla and Taupin tune "I Don't Want to Say Goodbye," which is as heartbroken a ballad as one is likely to hear. This is an utterly wonderful soundtrack that could have done without Linda Ronstadt's version of Buddy Holly's "It's So Easy," Steve Earle's "The Devil's Right Hand," or even Wainwright's "The Maker Makes," but this is a small complaint.
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About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 18 track(s)
- Total length: 00:46:00
- Main artist: Various Artists
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Verve Forecast
- Genre: Soundtracks Film Soundtracks
© 2006 The Verve Music Group, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc. This Compilation ℗ 2006 The Verve Music Group, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
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