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The Hi-Lo Country: Music From And Inspired By The Motion Picture

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This movie belongs in your collection, along with "The Last Picture Show".
Something like a western, but not. I was pleasantly surprised, when I saw Katy Jurado in it. One of my favorite western actresses. And, one of the very few hispanic actors of the old west. I liked her in "High Noon". And Penelope Cruz, her first English movie. I like the mix of friends that big boy and Pete have. They seem to have good chemistry, like "sticking closer than a brother", Chicanos and gringos together fighting off the bad guys. Awesome! And the music is out of this world. No one else could have pulled it off like Don Walser did. Music of the times, the dying west. This movie is worth it, if only to see him perform live. But all the actors do a marvelous job here. Sam Peckinpah would be very proud. I would have picked ten stars, if available!!!

Hearing Don Walser in the movie (good movie too), got me to buy this CD. I'm not a big-time CM fan but I do know talent and good music(there's not a genre that I haven't found music I like)... Anyway with Hank Williams, Jeff Beck-Willie Nelson, and others, you can't go wrong with this CD. Good choice for the occasional CM listener.

I'll declare from the outset that I haven't seen the film, so I don't know if the music unfolds on the disc in the same order as it does in the film. My guess is probably not, and therefore the (much less interesting) orchestral score wouldn't drag the chain like it does on the cd - which is very much an album of 2 distinct halves. The initial block of country, country swing, "novelty" and tex/mex tracks move along very nicely until the disembodied dynamics of the orchestral movements grind towards a finale. Still, the format does make it easier to switch off after the first section, rather than skipping tracks here and there. Hey, maybe that's why the distributors did it that way. Doh!!

I'll declare from the outset that I haven't seen the film, so I don't know if the music unfolds on the disc in the same order as it does in the film. My guess is probably not, and therefore the (much less interesting) orchestral score wouldn't drag the chain like it does on the cd - which is very much an album of 2 distinct halves. The initial block of country, country swing, "novelty" and tex/mex tracks move along very nicely until the disembodied dynamics of the orchestral movements grind towards a finale. Still, the format does make it easier to switch off after the first section, rather than skipping tracks here and there. Hey, maybe that's why the distributors did it that way. Doh!!