1 |
Way
Down In North Carolina - Lauren Pritchard & Emmylou
Harris |
2 |
Jive & Five - Count Basie |
3 |
Mama He Treats Your Daughter Mean - Ruth Brown |
4 |
Swingin
In The Key Of C - Slim & Slam |
5 |
Moten
Swing - Count Basie |
6 |
Backwater Blues - Dinah Washington |
| 7 |
Bach Variation 26 - Glen Gould |
8 |
Like
A Hurricane - The Dillards |
9 |
A Rockin Good Way - Dinah Washington & Brook Benton |
10 |
Come
On Over To My House - Storm Party Band |
11 |
Before
I Met You - Storm Party Band |
12 |
In Rodanthe - Emmylou Harris |
13 |
Rodanthe Theme - Jeanine Tesori |
ALBUM REVIEW:
The movie directed by George C. Wolfe is about two unhappy
people (aren’t they almost everywhere these days?) whose
lives become intertwined when they have an unexpected romance
in an inn on a North Carolina beach town. The 35 minutes of
romantic music in this soundtrack album are meant to accompany
the romantic nights the couple spend on the romantic beach
inn.
Opening
the album is American folk and country singer Emmylou Harris’s
“In Rodanthe”, a soothing, calming and comforting
tune written and performed by Alabama born musician. The multiple
Grammy Award winner also performs the heartwarmingly lively
“Way Down In North Carolina” with American actress
singer Lauren Pritchard. This welcoming style of music makes
this disc worth repeated spins in your player.
Other
tracks contained on this soundtrack are classic jazz pieces
like 1930s music group Slim and Slam’s “Swingin
in The Key of C” and New Jersey bandleader Count Basie’s
“Moten Swing”. These big sound cues will have
you swinging your Monday blues away. To jive things up a little,
listen out for R and B singer Ruth Brown’s mischievously
catchy “Mama He Treats Your Daughter Mean” and
Queen of the Blues Dinah Washington & rock and roll performer
Brook Benton’s psychedelically sweet duet “A Rockin
Good Way”. Storm Party Band’s “Come On Over
To My House” and “Before I Met You” are
also two tracks that you’d want to listen and swing
to.
It
doesn’t matter whether you can afford to go to Rodanthe,
an unincorporated community located in Dare County, North
Carolina - the music on this soundtrack album can be also
be played to sooth your nerves right here on our sunny island.
ALBUM RATING:
Recommended Track: (12) In Rodanthe - Emmylou Harris
Review
by John Li
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