CRAZY HEART's Jeff Bridges won his very first Oscar (following a total of five nominations, starting in the early 70s!) for Best Actor, and singer-songwriters Ryan Bingham and T Bone Burnett won the golden statue for "Best Original Song" for "The Weary Kind," the theme from CRAZY HEART. A big congrats to our winners! Now, check out video and stills from Sunday night.
Hier
alvast een nieuwe aankomende release van New West, het betreft de Soundtrack
“Crazy Heart” met Jeff Bridges. Maggie Gyllenhall en Robert Duvall. Produced by
T Bone Burnett & Stephen Bruton. De cd kom uit in 2 versies de reguliere (19
januari) en DELUXE versie (2 februari) met alle songs uit de film (zie
onder)...Wanneer de film gaat draaien in onze contreien, laten we jullie zo
spoedig mogelijk weten.
Alvast dank weer voor jullie attentie en reacties,
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New West Records To Release Original Motion Picture Soundtrack For Fox Searchlight Pictures’Crazy Heart Produced By T Bone Burnett & Stephen Bruton Original Songs Performed By Jeff Bridges “The Weary Kind (Theme From Crazy Heart)”Performed By Texas Songwriter Ryan Bingham; Co-Written With T Bone Burnett
Soundtrack Available January 19th 2010 23 Song Deluxe Edition In Stores February 2nd 2010
Los Angeles, CA – New West Records announces the release of Crazy Heart: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack, due out on January 19th. A deluxe edition of the soundtrack featuring all 23 songs from the film, sequenced in their running order, will be in stores on February 2nd. The releases are companions to the upcoming Fox Searchlight Pictures movie Crazy Heart, starring Jeff Bridges, Maggie Gyllenhaal, and Robert Duvall. The soundtrack was co-produced by 10-time Grammy® Award winner T Bone Burnett who is also credited with the 2009 Album Of The Year and Record of the Year Raising Sand, the worldwide smash album from Robert Plant and Alison Krauss. Burnett, who co-produced the soundtrack with guitarist/songwriter Stephen Bruton, earned past Grammy Awards for his work on the 8-times Platinum release, O Brother Where Art Thou? And Platinum soundtrack to the Johnny Cash biopic, Walk The Line. The film Crazy Heart, which will have a limited release December 16th and opens wider in January, is already garnering praise from the press including The Wrap who declared, “The Oscar race needs to make room for Jeff Bridges and T Bone Burnett.”
With Burnett also producing the film, the music plays a prominent role. Burnett co-composed the film’s score with Bruton and co-wrote many of its original songs, including the pivotal track written throughout the film by Jeff Bridges’ hard-living country singer, Bad Blake, “The Weary Kind (Theme From Crazy Heart),” written with acclaimed Texas singer/songwriter Ryan Bingham. The song is performed numerous times in the film by Bridges himself and a Bingham version premieres over the film’s trailer. At 28, Bingham has encountered more at this early stage in his life than many will in an entire lifetime. He writes from the genuine perspective of an old soul and has a growing fan base in the US and abroad. Most recently he toured with the legendary Flatlanders and performed at Farm Aid. Bingham makes his acting debut in the film and performs “I Don’t Know” co-written by Bruton and Burnett. Buddy Miller, Jay Bellerose and Greg Leisz were among the notable musicians called in to play on the original songs.
The film is dedicated to Bruton, a lifelong friend of Burnett who passed away earlier this year. In a long and distinguished career, Bruton excelled as a musician, songwriter and producer. He played guitar with Kris Kristofferson since the early 70s, had songs recorded by Bonnie Raitt, Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings and Johnny Cash among others, and released five records as a solo artist, the last three for New West. Just before passing, Bruton was working on Crazy Heart both musically and in a consultation role for Bridges. Bruton was able to see the completion of the project before his death.
On the soundtrack, the new original music sung by the films actors, is interwoven with songs by artists who’ve lived the movie’s story including Waylon Jennings (“Are You Sure Hank Done It This Way”) and Townes Van Zandt (“If I Needed You”). The soundtrack is rounded out with music from Buck Owens (“Hello Trouble”), The Louvin Brothers (“My Baby’s Gone”), Lightnin’ Hopkins (“Once A Gambler”) and Sam Phillips (“Reflecting Light”).
About Crazy Heart (From Fox Searchlight)
Four-time Academy Award ® nominee Jeff Bridges stars as the richly comic, semi-tragic romantic antihero Bad Blake in the debut feature film from writer-director Scott Cooper. Bad Blake is a broken-down,hard-living country music singer who's had way too many marriages, far too many years on the road and one too many drinks way too many times. And yet, Bad can’t help but reach for salvation with the help of Jean (Maggie Gyllenhall), a journalist who discovers the real man behind the musician. As he struggles down the road of redemption, Bad learns the hard way just how tough life can be on one man’s crazy heart.
About T Bone Burnett:
T Bone Burnett is a 10-time Grammy Award winner, earning numerous statues in 2009 – including Album of the Year and Record of the Year – for his production work on Raising Sand, the worldwide smash album from Robert Plant and Alison Krauss. That same year, he was also awarded a Grammy for Best Traditional Blues Album for his work on B.B. King’s One Kind Favor. He previously earned five Grammys for his work on the 8-times Platinum release, O Brother Where Art Thou?, which also spawned two highly successful national concert tours: Down From The Mountain and The Great High Mountain. Further Grammys followed for his work on the platinum soundtrack to the Johnny Cash biopic, Walk The Line, and the platinum Tony Bennett / k.d. lang duets album, A Wonderful World. He was nominated for an Academy Award in 2004, along with Elvis Costello in the category of Best Original Song for “The Scarlet Tide” from the film, Cold Mountain. For his work on that film, Burnett also earned the BAFTA’s Anthony Asquith Award for Achievement in Film Music.
About Stephen Bruton:
Renowned, Texas musician, Stephen Bruton had a long and distinguished career as a musician, songwriter and producer. He released five records as a solo artist, the last three for the New West Records label. As a lead guitar player Bruton was in high demand among legendary contemporaries including Kris Kristofferson and Bonnie Raitt. He recorded with Delbert McClinton, T Bone Burnett, Elvis Costello, Carly Simon, The Wallflowers, Sonny Landreth, Peter Case, Ray Wylie Hubbard and a slew of others. He produced records for Alejandro Escovedo, Marcia Ball and Jimmie Dale Gilmore to name a few. Bruton's songs have been widely covered as well, by artists including Raitt, Kristofferson, Willie Nelson, Jimmy Buffett, Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, Martina McBride and Patty Loveless.
About Ryan Bingham:
Ryan Bingham is a Texas-bred singer/songwriter who spent part of his teen years on the bull-riding rodeo circuit, before taking up music. Bingham’s latest release Roadhouse Sun (Lost Highway/June 2009) is the follow up to the singer/songwriter’s critically acclaimed Lost Highway debut Mescalito (2007). Bingham received high-praise for both albums, including a major cover story in the Los Angeles Times‘Calendar’ section. Bingham, and his band The Dead Horses, have appeared on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Late Night with Conan O’Brien, Austin City Limits, and most recently performed on The Late Show with David Letterman on November 6, 2009.
Crazy Heart: Original Motion Picture
Soundtrack Track Listing:
1. Hold On You
Performed by Jeff Bridges
(Stephen Bruton, T Bone Burnett, John Goodwin and
Bob Neuwirth)
2. Hello Trouble
Performed by Buck Owens
(Orville Couch and Eddie McDuff)
3. My Baby’s Gone
Performed by The Louvin Brothers
(Hazel Houser)
4. Somebody Else
Performed by Jeff Bridges
(Stephen Bruton and T Bone Burnett)
5. I Don’t Know
Performed by Ryan Bingham
(Stephen Bruton and T Bone Burnett)
6. Fallin’ & Flyin’
Performed by Jeff Bridges
(Stephen Bruton and Gary Nicholson)
7. I Don’t Know
Performed by Jeff Bridges
(Stephen Bruton and T Bone Burnett)
8. Once A Gambler
Performed By Lightnin’ Hopkins
(Sam Hopkins)
9. Are You Sure Hank Done It This Way
Performed by Waylon Jennings
(Waylon Jennings)
10. Fallin’ & Flyin’
Performed by Colin Farrell & Jeff Bridges
(Stephen Bruton and Gary Nicholson)
11. Gone, Gone, Gone
Performed by Colin Farrell
(Ryan Bingham and T Bone Burnett)
12. If I Needed You
Performed by Townes Van Zandt
(Townes Van Zandt)
13. Reflecting Light
Performed by Sam Phillips
(Sam Phillips)
14. Live Forever
Performed by Robert Duvall
(Billy Joe Shaver and Eddy Shaver)
15. Brand New Angel
Performed by Jeff Bridges
(Greg Brown)
16. The Weary Kind (Theme From Crazy Heart)
Performed by Ryan Bingham
(Ryan Bingham and T Bone Burnett)
Crazy Heart: Original Motion Picture
De nieuwe Reckless Kelly "Somewhere in Time" komt 5 februari uit bij Blue Rose en nu wil ik graag jullie interesse horen voor dit muzikale kleinood.
Zover ik weet is er nog niets te beluisteren, maar lezen en een leuke hoes bekijken kunnen jullie wel (zie attachments).
Robbie Klanderman
These are very good times for Reckless Kelly. With the release of Bulletproof in 2008, the Austin-based roots-rockers known for the integrity of their musical approach, the hard-core energy of their live shows and the fierce loyalty of their fans, turned up the intensity on their career. The album quickly became their biggest seller, hitting the Billboard 200 and reaching the Top 25 of the magazine's Top Country Albums chart. It contained their first #1 on both the Texas and Americana charts, "Ragged as the Road," and earned them a nomination as Best Band or Duo at the 2009 Americana Music Awards, a show that put them on stage with the country's best at the Ryman Auditorium. It also contained "American Blood" and "God Forsaken Town," widely regarded songs that link them to a working-class tradition of socially conscious music that stretches from Woody Guthrie to Bruce Springsteen.
The fact that "God Forsaken Town" was written by Reckless Kelly
singer/songwriter Willy Braun with Robert Earl Keen is symbolic of the fact that
the band's standing among its peers has never been higher. The respect they've
earned from everyone from Steve Earle to Kevin Welch can be summarized by Joe
Ely, who called them "my kind of band: hell-raising, hard-playing, kick-ass
songwriting, feet firmly in the present, but with an amazing knowledge of where
it has all come from."
It is praise that reverberates especially well in the context of their latest
work. With new album Somewhere in Time, the band digs deep into
its roots, revisiting the music of Pinto Bennett, who with his band the Famous
Motel Cowboys influenced a generation of musicians in the Northwest and served
as a mentor and idol to Willy and his brother Cody, whose fiddle, mandolin,
harmonica and vocal work help propel Reckless Kelly. In the company of their
bandmates, David Abeyta on lead guitar and lap steel, Jay Nazz on drums, and
Chris Schelske on bass, they explore their country influences and re-introduce
Bennett's music to a new generation of fans while placing their indelible,
rock-edged stamp on it.
"While this is Pinto's material, this is very much a Reckless Kelly record. It's
simply a bunch of great songs we thought people should hear," explains Cody." A
lot of Texas bands have been pushing country more toward rock," says Jay, "but
to go back to playing real country music turned out to be extremely rewarding
for us as a band." "It's not too far a departure from what we've done in the
past," adds Willy, "but it reminds me of the old days when we were playing four
sets a night, doing a lot more honky-tonk stuff, playing the real dance halls."
Highlights include "You Cared Enough to Lie," a honky-tonk masterpiece tailor
made for the stage, the tragedy of "The Ballad of Elano DeLeon" and "Some
People's Kids," which updates the kind of rock/country hybrid explored on the
West Coast beginning in the late '60s. Instrumentally, the project kicks up the
classic country flourishes--there is steel guitar on seven tracks--but that
in-the-pocket rhythm section, Cody's fiddle and mandolin, the crisp guitars and
raw energy are all pure Reckless Kelly.
Much in the way that Waylon Jennings found his narrative voice through the words
and songs of Billy Joe Shaver on the classic album Honky Tonk Heroes,
Somewhere in Time finds Reckless Kelly using Bennett's songs as a tool
to elucidate another aspect of their true artistic identity.
Bennett himself joined the band in the studio for two tracks ("He did 'em in one
take," says Willy), as did former Bennett cohorts like guitarist Sergio Webb,
guitarist/engineer Rob Matson, and Teddy Ray Jones, who joined Cody for some
twin fiddle work. "Even though it's a little different from our other albums,"
says Jay, "it never felt forced, or outside our comfort zone. It always felt
pretty natural, and I think you can hear that."
The project is the perfect gateway to understanding the life and music that have
been inextricably bound since Cody and Willy Braun's boyhood near Challis,
Idaho. Their grandfather, Musty Braun, passed his love of music to their father,
Muzzie, whose western swing band eventually included Willy, Cody, and their
brothers Micky and Gary.
"Our mother was the only person in the family that didn't play anything," Willy
says, and she served as the band's road manager. The family act played
everywhere from the Grand Ole Opry to The Tonight Show. By their teens, the
Braun brothers were bringing a host of other influences to their music, and as
they formed their own band they drew on the practical wisdom that existed in the
very lives of their father and his friends. "They showed us you could make
records on your own," says Cody. "You didn't have to have a label. You could
make your own records and T-shirts, hire a publicist and do everything on your
own. It's how we started, knowing we could make a living doing it."
After a period in the Northwest, they settled in Austin, whose artist-friendly
atmosphere and egalitarian club scene proved to be the most fertile possible
soil. "The college kids and the party scene helped amplify everything," says
Cody. "The live show came around to a real party atmosphere, just having fun and
getting people to whoop it up."
Their 1998 debut, Millican, brought the twang, the energy and the hooks
together earning them four Austin Music Awards for Best Roots Rock act. Each new
record swelled their fan base and widened their geographic impact. "With every
new album," says Willy, "we've exceeded the sales of the last one, and every
time we go into the studio we try to raise the bar on production and the quality
of songs. And each time a few more radio stations play our music and more people
come to shows."
With their increased visibility has come the opportunity to give back and 2009
saw the group's first Celebrity Softball Jam raise $30,000 for Austin charities.
They have also, in addition to appearances at military base benefits, launched
Reckless Soldiers, using their website to help military personnel connect with
family, friends and supporters.
Whether it's their dedication to charity work, playing live or the art of
writing a timeless tune, Reckless Kelly is tireless in their pursuit of
excellence. It's this attitude and their near legendary propensity for a good
time that ensures their success as artists. The Somewhere in Time
project is no exception. "I think this time," adds Willy, "we did again what we
always set out to do, which is to make a record we can be proud of."
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