Artist: VA
Title Of Album: Cold Mountain OST
Date Of Release: December 9, 2003
Label: Sony
Genre: Original Soundtrack
Language: EN
Quality/Bitrate: MP3 / 192 kbit/s / 44.1 Khz / Stereo / Studio
Total Time: 55:30
Total Size: 89.4 mb

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. White shows 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." Alison 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."

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