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RE: Cooder makes excellent soundtracks!




And you have excellent taste, my friend! I recently sought out a good clean copy of the Paris soundtrack LP. I claim that Harry Dean Stanton is the unsung god of American cinematographic comedy. And I'm a devoted Ry Cooder bear, to boot!

The real winner in my soundtrack stack though is "The Long Riders" [Warner HS4338, 1980]. An audiophile fave in its day. The music is late 19th century Americana performed with an amazing visceral quality -recorded, engineered, and mastered with utmost care- total beauty from Warner! (The movie is damn good too- the James gang was made of several sets of brothers here played by the Keaches, Carradines, and Quaids, without any kitsch or presumption).

"Blue City" has 1 or 2 decent tracks, the rest dross. I think that may be thanks to the subtle presence of Michelle Manning, a beloved producer of total garbage TV like Miami Vice (which you gotta admit had Jan Hammer do the theme- she must have at least known who to call...)

Another Cooder movie music piece I love is the main theme from the long-lost movie "Southern Comfort" [Fox, 1981] That movie is lost for a reason- it was that weak but the star was Keith Carradine who must have made the musical connection. The movie is almost all slide-guitar noodling in a mode, no tunes. The theme is quite good however and there is a piece by the Balfa Brothers near the end. I don't think they made a soundtrack but you can find the theme [3m 42s] to download if you haunt the interwebbs...


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