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Big Bad Love

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I'll be honest. I bought this album for the 2 new tracks by the master, Tom Waits. I put the cd in my pick-um-up-truck this afternoon and started driving. I was blown away. Let me begin:

1. Boxcar Blues - Kenny Brown: A simple slide guitar. Makes you want to sit on top of a moving boxcar connected to a train that has just entered the darkest tunnel (and isn't going anywhere for anytime soon).

2. I love you - Asie Payton: One of the soundtrack highlights. Great traditional blues tune with a kicking drum track. Can't get enough of this one.

3. Come on In (live) - R.L. Burnside: If you know Burnside you know what it's all about -- drinking, chaos, broken glass.

4. She asked me so I told Her - T-Model Ford: Great straight-forward blues here. So thick you could kill someone if you dropped it on their head.

5. My baby's Gone - Robert Belfour: Late night driving stuff. Your girl just leave you boys? Blast this on go whistlin' past the graveyard.

6. Sleepwalkin' - Tom Verlaine: Post-drinking song. Great blues instrumental.

7. Everything is Broken - R.L. Burnside: Being a Bob Dylan fan I was very interested in hearing R.L.'s take on this song from The Bobness' album Oh Mercy. My conclusion -- this is the way the song is meant to be. Too bad they couldn't have gotten Bob and R.L. to do it together.

8. Junior's Place - Junior Kimbrough: Hit-in-the-veins Blues here. Not the most outstanding track, but it fits in well anyways.

9. Long Way Home - Tom Waits: Finally. That great growler of a man singing a rather catchy tune. A soundtrack highlight and hopefully an introductory for some that might find Tom interesting enough to find out more about him. This is another great co-written song with his wife, Kathleen Brennan.

10. Goodbye - Steve Earl: The first thing I thought when I heard this song was "Bob Dylan". Never the less, this is a great song. Great guitar. I love music like this. Fits in perfectly.

11. Spiritual - Tom Verlaine: Another great instrumental. I suppose this runs more along side of the redemption in this blues soundtrack. Verlaine sure is a great guitarist.

12. Jayne's Blue Wish - Tom Waits: The soundtrack finale sounds something like a broken lullaby that could be found written on the wall of some midnight bar, Just how I like it. Another Waits/Brennan tune. Makes me look forward to Tom's 2 new albums coming out in May.

Along with this great dirt-blues mix of a sountrack comes liner notes by the director of Big Bad Love, Arliss Howard. If you're a fan of the blues, this is one of the best collections I've heard in a long time. Make no mistake about it, kids, if you listen to this album in your pick-um-up-truck - you'll want to take the long way home too.

I can't stop listening to this. Having now seen the movie, I love the soundtrack even more than I did before. It is seamlessly integrated with the film. It's haunting and rowdy. Hypnotic and heartbreaking. My five-year-old loves to dance to "I Love You." I think T-Model Ford's "She Asked Me So I Told Her" would be a great, if unorthodox, wedding song. All four tracks by the two Toms (Waits and Verlaine) are keepers, and might never have existed without this film. As a previous reviewer demonstrated, all the songs are worthy of mention, and are awesomely assembled here. Plus, the liner notes are both sweet and hilarious. Just buy it. You'll see. Better yet, buy two and give one to a friend. Share the "Big Bad Love."

I heard this cd in a music store the other day. Think it was the Junoir Kimbrough tune (Junoir's Place) that was playing. It got my attention, being that I am already familiar with his music. Then the real treat came on, "Long Way home" by Tom Waits. I knew then and there I had to buy it. Not one cent was wasted pruchasing this great CD. Not one note is wasted in this great collection of music. Press play and let it roll to the end, then press play again. You won't be disappointed.

It was a great surprise to find this CD at the store the other day. If you like the "real country blues", not the slick, overproduced Chicago stuff, then this is for you. The Fat Possom folks, Kimbrough, R.L., etc. are great. Interesting to have Tom Waits, Tom Verlaine and Steve Earle on this too. They do a great job too. Verlaine is moody and mystical and just great on the two instramentals.I dont know if the movie will be worth anything, but the sound track is certainly worth the price. Buy this and you will not be dissapointed if you are a blues fan, or a fan of real music.You may even want to do a little work and find out more about the great Jr. Kimbrough, R. L.Burnside, Asier Payton, or any of the other non-mainstream blues greats featured here. Well worth the effort.

This soundtrack is definitely a recommendation for someone who hasn't fully come to appreciate the South's blues era. Although most of the tracks are modern blues, they still have the essence of what the Deep South is and was back in the early 20th century. This cd is great for young indie fans looking for something new and different, and also for middle-aged music lovers that want something new other than their John Mayell and Eric Claptom blues.

This is what the blues is about. A combination of old and new voices contribute to a perfectly pitched record. I came to this through Tom Waits. I love his music and wanted to hear these two tracks. I thought I might pull them off and move on. Now I can't imagine braking up the beautiful dynamic the whole record holds. I always liked R.L. Burnside. Now I love him. R.L., Junior, Asie, T-Model Ford, the Toms all fit together like they were all born in the same southern town. This soundtrack will definately get passed on by word of my mouth to my friends and co-workers.

One of my biggest pet peeves with motion picture soundtracks is the fact that there is never enough original music on it to capture the moods and themes of the movies particular plot and the characters personalities. The soundtrack to Big Bad Love however is a refreshing change. With original songs from the legendary Tom Waits, Tom Verlaine & Steve Earle this soundtrack easily makes me think of the southern back woods and how simplistic life should be.

You don't have to be a blues aficionado to appreciate the fluidity of this album and the craftsmanship of the songs these artists create. By combining different elements of the blues, whether it's Mr. Waits signature raspy voice or R.L. Burnside's storytelling this soundtrack will make road trippin all the worth while. The biggest surprise however is the collaboration of Tom Verlaine and the Kronos Quartet. The soupy feel it evokes makes the listener's mind wander and feel more at ease.

Besides getting two unbelieveably great new Waits tunes, this cd is packed full of some of the rawest Blues to come out of Mississippi in a long time; a moment later Tom Verlaine appears with an original Kronos Quartet theme -- c'mon - it is so cool!The liner notes take me back to the days when people actually sat down and wrote literate liner notes. Thanks for this one...

First of all, I would like to say that this is undoubtedly one of the finest soundtracks that I have ever heard. I would rank it with 'The last Tango in Paris' and Peter Gabriel's 'Birdy,.
It is also perhaps the finest collection of contemporary blues that I have ever heard ...... R.L.Burnside and Junior Kimbaugh. You have got to love it! In addition there is some fine work by Tom Verlaine .... someone who remains overlooked as a monumental musical talent. My hat is off to whoever is responsible for this highly satifying disc.

It was a great surprise to find this CD at the store the other day. If you like the "real country blues", not the slick, overproduced Chicago stuff, then this is for you. The Fat Possom folks, Kimbrough, R.L., etc. are great. Interesting to have Tom Waits, Tom Verlaine and Steve Earle on this too. They do a great job too. Verlaine is moody and mystical and just great on the two instramentals.I dont know if the movie will be worth anything, but the sound track is certainly worth the price. Buy this and you will not be dissapointed if you are a blues fan, or a fan of real music.You may even want to do a little work and find out more about the great Jr. Kimbrough, R. L.Burnside, Asier Payton, or any of the other non-mainstream blues greats featured here. Well worth the effort.