Dec 2013
To be clear, this is not a movie review. It's not really an album review. I've listened to the soundtrack from this movie so many times in the past month, I felt it was the most appropriate selection to write on.
The movie, as I'm sure most of you have seen by now, is a pretty accurate depiction of friends we love and people we perhaps once were and wish we could always be. Stripped of the facade we like to place on the songwriters we revere, this guy is living in the muck a life of unattained dreams creates. If you haven't seen it, see it.
I like to think the Coen Bros took this project on to spotlight how folk music does so effortlessly what their catalogue of movies pounds away at. It captures the human condition. The right folk song makes you dig and uncover. You'll see your reflection in it. Makes you belt out a line because you can't feel it without letting everyone else in on it. It makes you feel human and know you are.
The Death of Queen Jane in on constant bedtime lullaby rotation since I heard it the first time. It's a traditional English ballad about a the queen's death due to childbirth. Death becomes the ultimate relief of physical suffering, something so commonly illustrated in movies.
Fare Thee Well
If it were ever up for discussion and I don't think it was but it certainly isn't anymore, the Bro's have a knack for a putting soundtracks together.
with love
Dennis
the coen's do have the best soundtracks... also love the different versions of songs on this soundtrack not used in the film. A+ stuff.
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