Lone Star: Original Soundtrack From The Film [Soundtrack]

Various Artists (Composer) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 4, 1996)
• Original Release Date: June 4, 1996
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Soundtrack
• Label: Daring Records
• ASIN: B000001CYT
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #80,567 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #85 in Music > Indie Music > Soundtracks > Movie Soundtracks

Track Listings

1. Mi Unico Camino - Conjunto Bernal

2. Juana La Cubana - Fito Olivares

3. Boogie - Little Walter

4. Sam And Pilar - Duke Levine, Mike Turk

5. You Hurt Me - Little Willie John

6. The Night's Too Long - Lucinda Williams

7. Since I Met You Baby - Ivory Joe Hunter

8. Sabor A Mi - Isidoro Lopez

9. Jurame - Lydia Mendoza

10. Papertrail - Duke Levine

11. My Love Is - Little Willie John

12. Desde Que Conosco - Freddie Fender

13. Lagrimas De Acero - Duke Levine, Evan Harlan, Marshall Wood And Tim ..

14. I'm Blue And Lonesome - Duke Levine, Mike Turk, Billy Novick, Marshall W..

15. I Want To Be A Cowboy's Sweetheart - Patsy Montana And The Prairie Ramblers

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

Writer-director John Sayles's complex, adult mystery delves deeply into borders at myriad levels, a theme echoed beautifully in this collection of country, blues, norteño, R&B, and folk songs that appear as source cues in the film. Sayles's hand in picking them is evident in terms of both quality and thematic resonance: in a telling gesture, Ivory Joe Hunter's mournful "Since I Met You Baby" is answered with a Spanish cover version, created for the film, featuring Freddie Fender. Whether reinforcing the film's cultural milieu or underlining its emotions, strong performances from Lucinda Williams, legendary Mexican songstress Lydia Mendoza, Little Willie John, Little Walter, and Conjunto Bernal give Lone Star heft far beyond most cinematic song compilations. --Sam Sutherland

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A great companion to a fantastic film, December 10, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Lone Star: Original Soundtrack From The Film (Audio CD)

Like the film itself, the soundtrack to "Lone Star" is complex and thought-provoking. It's a good introduction to a variety of musical genres and plays well. I would have liked the album better without the music composed for the film; it's distracting and takes away from the melodic, melancholy works by Lydia Mendoza, Ivory Joe Hunter, and even Freddie Fender that so evoke the pensiveness of the movie. (I'm a little surprised that a Tejano movie soundtrack didn't have Flaco Jimenez on it, though.) Still, most of the songs are great. It's one of the few movie soundtracks I am glad I own.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Music good; quality BAD, April 21, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Lone Star: Original Soundtrack From The Film (Audio CD)

If you are like me, you buy a soundtrack because the music really stood out in the movie, and, usually, you enjoyed the movie, so the music brings back a little of that good memory. John Sayles used the music in his movie as a transition between scenes and it was very effective. The traditional music is excellent. The reason for my 2 star review is the fact that the production quality on the CD is extremely bad. Granted, most of the songs were probably somewhat obscure and the original media may not have been top quality to begin with, but from the first song you really hear a hiss in your speaker like you are playing a tape recorded to another tape. This CD really needed some digital enhancement. Don't get me wrong, the music is excellent, but if you are one of those people who buys a CD for the reason that it is supposed to sound better than a tape, then, in this case, you would be just as well off purchasing the cassette and saving a few dollars.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent soundtrack!, November 19, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Lone Star: Original Soundtrack From The Film (Audio CD)

This soundtrack really evokes the movie's many moods very well. Renewed my interest in Tejano music as well as traditional Mexican music!