Return to Cold Mountain [Soundtrack]

Gabriel Yared (Composer) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 25, 2004)
• Original Release Date: December 25, 2003
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Soundtrack
• Label: Compendia
• ASIN: B0001XXB5M
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #249,722 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. The Old John Hardy - David Holt

2. Pretty Polly - Michael Farr

3. Back in '29 - Malcom Holcombe

4. Lorena - Craig Duncan

5. Whoopie Liza Jane - Don Lewis

6. Shady Grove - Laura Boosinger

7. Georgie - Jack Lawrence

8. Farther Along - Steve McCurry

9. Black Mountain Rag - Larry Keel

10. Old Joe Clark - Bruce Greene

11. Sandy River - Bruce Greene

12. Cold Mountain Waltz - Don Lewis

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

42 of 55 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Nice acoustic, unassuming, old-timeyish set, June 22, 2004

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DJ Joe Sixpack (...in Middle America) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Return to Cold Mountain (Audio CD)

This is a review about this album, not about the movie "Cold Mountain," (which I thought was pretty lousy). The good news is that the music on here doesn't actually have much to do with "Cold Mountain," other than its being (mostly) Appalachian mountain music, and that the label seems to be hoping it can cash in on the film's name the same way other labels cashed in on the "O Brother" phenomenon a few years ago.

This is actually a fairly sweet old-timey/folkie album, with standards like "Pretty Polly," "Shady Grove," "Lorena," and "Old Joe Clark," some of which date back the Civil War era, and others that, curiously, do not (like the anachronistic gangster ballad, "Back In '29," which makes reference to the most decidedly post-Antebellum automobile...) The opportunistic "O Brother"-ish marketing gambit is a little cheesy, but the album is not. Some heavy hitters like David Holt and Jim Lauderdale appear on here, but most of the musicians are folks I've never heard of, which is always nice... Many, it appears, are North Carolina natives. Not a bad little set.

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Seven Excellent Tunes, March 17, 2007

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Ken Roberts "social historian" (Michigan United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Return to Cold Mountain (Audio CD)

I do not fully understand why, when this collection is supposed to be based on the movie/book of the Civil War era, they would add music of a later era. There are many songs of the mid 19th century that could have been included other than "Back in '29."

I must say, also, that I am not particularly fond of "Cold Mountain Waltz," "Georgie," and the way "Old John Hardy" and "Pretty Polly" are done.

Now for the good:

The rest of the tunes (seven of them) are excellent. I absolutely love Laura Boosinger's "Shady Grove," which truly takes me to another time and place, and the Lewis, Lewis, and Lewis' version of "Whoopie Liza Jane" is simply great. The instrumental "Black Mountain Rag" shows some very fine guitar work, and this version of "Farther Along" is one of the best I have heard yet.

Done in an Appalachian style (the 'Cold Mountain' movie concentrates itself in Appalachia, hence the reason for the Rebel feel), these seven tunes remind me of how music may have sounded in a small mountain town during the mid-19th century.

Because of the great songs I cited, I feel this would make a fine addition to your period music collection.