| Product Summary | | Label: Cbs/epic/wtg Records | | UPC: 00886971203820 | | Release Date: 10/30/2007 | | Buy.com Sku: 205866557 | | Item#: M3TT3Y | | Buy.com Sales Rank: 25079 | Format:  CD |
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Disc 1
| | Song Title | Sample | | 1. All Along the Watchtower - Eddie Vedder & The Million Dollar Bashers ~ Original Soundtrack |  | | 2. I'm Not There - Sonic Youth ~ Original Soundtrack | | | 3. Goin' To Acapulco - Jim James & Calexico ~ Original Soundtrack | | | 4. Tombstone Blues - Richie Havens ~ Original Soundtrack | | | 5. Ballad Of a Thin Man - Stephen Malkmus & The Million Dollar Bashers ~ Original Soundtrack | | | 6. Stuck Inside Of Mobile With The Memphis Blues Again - Cat Power ~ Original Soundtrack | | | 7. Pressing On - John Doe ~ Original Soundtrack | | | 8. Fourth Time Around - Yo La Tengo ~ Original Soundtrack | | | 9. Dark Eyes - Iron & Wine & Calexico ~ Original Soundtrack | | | 10. Highway 61 Revisited - Karon O & the Million Dollar Bashers ~ Original Soundtrack | | | 11. One More Cup Of Coffee - Roger McGuinn & Calexico ~ Original Soundtrack | | | 12. Lonesome Death Of Hattie Carroll, The - Mason Jennings ~ Original Soundtrack | | | 13. Billy 1 - Los Lobos ~ Original Soundtrack | | | 14. Simple Twist Of Fate - Jeff Tweedy ~ Original Soundtrack | | | 15. Man In the Long Black Coat - Mark Lanegan ~ Original Soundtrack | | | 16. Senor (Tales Of Yankee Power) - Willie Nelson & Calexico ~ Original Soundtrack | |
(C) Compilation (P) 2007 SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT
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Notes & Personnel Info |  | Personnel: Tom Verlaine (vocals, guitar, slide guitar); David Hidalgo (vocals, guitar, accordion, keyboards); Sam Beam (vocals, guitar, piano); Ira Kaplan, Willie Nelson, Dan Auerbach, Craig Finn (vocals, guitar); Richie Havens (vocals, acoustic guitar, background vocals); Jeff Tweedy (vocals, acoustic guitar); Roger McGuinn (vocals, electric 12-string guitar); Mark?ta Irglov (vocals, banjo); Georgia Hubley (vocals, drums); Salvador Duran, Eddie Vedder, Jim James, Mark Lanegan, Stephen Malkmus, Thurston Moore, Mira Billotte, Bob Forrest, Chan Marshall, Charlotte Gainsbourg (vocals); Joey Burns (guitar, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, nylon-string guitar, cello, accordion, piano, glockenspiel, upright bass, background vocals); Lee Ranaldo (guitar, acoustic guitar, piano, tambourine, siren); Nels Cline (guitar, electric guitar); Casey Foubert (guitar, lap steel guitar, background vocals); Greg Leisz (guitar, dobro, mandolin); Glen Hansard (guitar, harmonica); Doug Easley, Doug Shaw, Josh Schwartz, Kim Gordon, Loudon Wainwright III, Mabon "Teenie" Hodges, Peter Phillips, Smokey Hormel, Tad Kubler (guitar); Chris Bruce (acoustic guitar, electric guitar, background vocals); Sufjan Stevens (acoustic guitar, piano, Fender Rhodes piano, percussion); Walter Parks (acoustic guitar, background vocals); Kevin Barker (acoustic guitar); Doyle Bramhall II, Bryce Dessner (electric guitar); Cesar Rosas (bajo sexto, background vocals); Louie P?rez (jarana); Salvador Gallegos III (vihuela); Fernando Valencia (violin); David Mansfield (fiddle); Marla Hansen (viola, background vocals); John Sebastian , Mickey Raphael (harmonica); Hideaki Aomori (saxophone); Marco Rosano (tenor saxophone, baritone saxophone); C.J. Camerieri, Kyle B. Resnick, Martin Wenk, Jacob Valenzuela (trumpet); Tim Albright, Ben Lanz (trombone); David Ralicke (horns); John Medeski (piano, Wurlitzer organ); Brian Deck (piano, marimba, bongos); Terry Adams , Rick Steff (piano); Stanley Dural (organ); Steve Berlin, Vincent Jones, Franz Nicolay (keyboards); David Piltch, Volker Zander (upright bass); John Convertino (drums, bass drum, percussion); James McAlister (drums, electronic drums, percussion, background vocals); Jay Bellerose, Cougar Estrada, Carla Azar (drums, percussion); Glenn Kotche, Patrick Carney, Steve Shelley (drums); George Drakoulias (percussion); Hubert Sumlin, Kelly Hogan, Portia Griffin, Jean McClain (background vocals). | | Audio Mixers: TJ Doherty; Craig Schumacher; Dave McNair; David Bianco; Chad Weis; Aaron Mullan; Jim Scott; John Agnello; Lee Ranaldo; Rob Bochnik; Robert Carranza; Roger Moutenot; Ryan Freeland; Ryan Hewitt; Stewart Lerman; Sufjan Stevens; Casey Foubert; Boo Macleod; Brian Deck; James McAlister. | | Photographer: Jonathan Wenk. | | Just as Todd Haynes's Bob Dylan biopic I'M NOT THERE takes an unusual approach by having several different people portraying the artist, so the accompanying soundtrack skirts expectations by sporting a wide variety of artists tackling the Dylan catalog, and including a wealth of lesser-known Dylan tunes. Over the course of two discs, Haynes assembles an impressive cast of contributors, from arena-size names (Eddie Vedder, Willie Nelson) to indie-rock cult heroes (Mark Lanegan, Sufjan Stevens) and Dylan contemporaries (Richie Havens, Ramblin' Jack Elliott). | | Some of the tracks stick relatively close to the feel of the originals, like Wilco leader Jeff Tweedy's earthy, folk-rock take on "Simple Twist of Fate," while others leap headlong into reinvention, like Calexico and Iron & Wine's atmospheric, wah-wah-soaked collaboration on "Dark Eyes." In the end, one of the most significant accomplishments of this soundtrack may be the exposure of such relative esoterica as "Man in the Long Black Coat" and "Senor (Tales of Yankee Power)" to an audience outside the closed circle of devout Dylanologists. Oh, and the title track is a previously unreleased tune performed by the man himself. Take that, completists! | | For his impressionistic 2007 Bob Dylan biopic I'm Not There, director Todd Haynes hired an army of six actors to portray the singer/songwriter, each thespian representing a different phase or public persona of Dylan's career. The accompanying double-disc soundtrack -- not all of its 34 songs are used in the film -- employs a similar conceit, as Haynes and his music supervisors, Randall Poster and Jim Dunbar, rounded up rockers and folksingers of all stripes to reinterpret and re-create portions of Dylan's immense catalog. Taken as a whole, neither the singers nor the selections are too conventional, as the album alternates between standards and obscurities, old cohorts and new blood, faithful renditions and original interpretations, never tipping too far in either direction or staying in one place too long. Despite that shifting mood, I'm Not There gels as an album, partially because a good portion of the soundtrack is recorded with one of two different house bands: the dusty, cinematic Arizona outfit Calexico and the Million Dollar Bashers, a supergroup assembled for this gig featuring guitarist Lee Ranaldo and drummer Steve Shelley of Sonic Youth, Tom Verlaine, Dylan's regular bassist Tony Garnier, Wilco guitarist Nels Cline, guitarist Smokey Hormel, and organist John Medeski. | | Haynes also used a similar house band on his previous rock & roll film, the glam rock fantasia Velvet Goldmine and, as a soundtrack, I'm Not There is equally as good, if not quite as risky or flashy as that 1998 gem. That's partly due to the inspiration, of course: on Velvet Goldmine he got to play with the history of a lot of groups, all known for their extravagant flamboyance, but here he only has one artist, but if any musician has a history as rich as a battalion of bands, it's Bob Dylan. Haynes, Poster, Dunbar and crew concentrate heavily on the '60s -- the film, after all, is grounded in the '60s, pulling in elements of Dylan's life in the '70s and beyond, including his born-again Christianity and Rolling Thunder outlaw stance, but never quite straying from that foundation -- and the soundtrack touches upon all of Bob's '60s incarnations, including the folk troubadour, thin wild mercury music, the ragged Americana of The Basement Tapes, and the reflective country-folk of John Wesley Harding. Familiar sounds may be here, but not necessarily familiar songs -- Haynes, Poster and Dunbar deliberately sidestep standards like "Blowin' in the Wind," "Masters of War," "Subterranean Homesick Blues," and "Like a Rolling Stone," choosing instead to build this soundtrack around songs that weren't widely released during the '60s, later to surface on The Basement Tapes, Biograph, The Bootleg Series, during the film of No Direction Home, or, in the case of the heavily bootlegged title song, released here for the first time. Some could carp that this doesn't quite make for an accurate picture of Bob -- it ever so slightly continually circles back to the stark, spooky melancholy of Dylan and the Band's "I'm Not There," which ends the album -- but it's not inaccurate, either. Rather, it's an interpretation of Dylan's music, emphasizing certain elements and blurring others to paint a portrait where the traditional bleeds into the contemporary and vice versa. | | Any Dylanologist could spend hours deconstructing the soundtrack to I'm Not There -- what is selected and why, why certain songs are reinterpreted while others are left alone -- but that's a side benefit to an album that should be enjoyed first as simply an absorbing, entertaining listen. Poster and Dunbar have paired performers with the songs almost perfectly, alternating between subtle surprises and sure picks. No other band could duplicate the haunted quality of Dylan's "I'm Not There," but Sonic Youth is the ideal match, as they give the song a hazy beauty and a warmth lacking in the original. Sonic Youth's masterful reading is less of a surprise than how Roger McGuinn and Willie Nelson effortlessly blend in with Calexico on "One |
Producer: Randall Poster; Jim Dunbar; David Mansfield; George Drakoulias; Todd Haynes; Jeff Tweedy; Joey Burns; John Agnello; Lee Ranaldo; Mason Jennings; Robert Carranza; Roger Moutenot; Sam Beam; Sufjan Stevens; Glen Hansard; Casey Foubert; Brian Deck; James McAl |
Engineer: Stephane Briat; Craig Schumacher; David Bianco; Chad Weis; John Agnello; Karl Derfler; Kevin Killen; Rob Bochnik; Robert Carranza; Roger Moutenot; Ryan Freeland; Stewart Lerman; Sufjan Stevens; Casey Foubert; Boo MacLeod; Brian Deck; James McAlister |
| | Technical Info | | Release Date : 10/30/2007 | | Original Release Date : 2007 | | Catalog ID : 8869712038 | | Label : Columbia (USA) | | Number of Discs : 2 | | Runtime : 158m : 43s | | Studio/Live : Studio | | Mono/Stereo : Stereo | | SPAR Code : n/a | | UPC : 00886971203820 |
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| | Professional Reviews | | Rolling Stone (p.192)
- 3.5 stars out of 5 -- "Sonic Youth tackle 'I'm Not There,' adding fuzz guitar and Thurston Moore's bemused mumble, never forcing the song to make sense -- the wises possible approach."Blender (Magazine)
(p.152)
- 4 stars out of 5 -- "The alt-rock singers are appropriately irreverent....Most performers are paired with songs that might as well have been written for them....Sufjan Stevens finds the delicate spiritual clockwork within 'Ring Them Bells'..." |
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