Where the Heart Is: Music from the Motion Picture [SOUNDTRACK]

Mason Daring (Composer)

Product Details

• Audio CD (April 18, 2000)
• Original Release Date: April 18, 2000
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Soundtrack
• Label: RCA
• ASIN: B00004SBNL
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (24 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #25,571 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com
This is exactly the kind of soundtrack you'd expect to complement a movie that takes a humorous if sentimental look at the power of love and friendship. Natalie Portman, Ashley Judd, Stockard Channing, and Joan Cusack star in the film and they have musical counterparts in Beth Nielsen Chapman, Martina McBride, and teen blues star Shannon Curfman. All tracks are manicured performances high in cinematic gloss and often enveloped in swooning strings or other effects of grandeur. It's only appropriate then that a stylist as accomplished as Lyle Lovett would smooth over Ray Charles's "What'd I Say," and that eternal studio pro and road veteran John Hiatt would contribute the workmanlike R&B-influenced "Let It Slip Away." One sure surprise is Joan Osborne's collaboration with Tommy Sims for the hip-hop-R&B of "Rowdy Booty Time." Most successful is Emmylou Harris and Patty Griffin's duet of "Beyond the Blue," on which their complementary voices merge with a subdued rhythm track for one of the soundtrack's few inspired moments. --Rob O'Connor

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Best Original Songs!, February 21, 2002

By	Kathy T. Farren (Wilmington, DE United States) - See all my reviews

Where The Heart Is has some of the best original songs for a sound track I have ever heard. There is not one song on this CD that you wouldn't like and that is very rare. They are all AWESOME! From the originals to the older classics. Great movie, great CD! How it got over looked for an award is beyond me.

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A must listen to CD and a must see movie!, May 1, 2000

By	Trenton Chastain (GA, USA) - See all my reviews

I recently bought this CD at Wal-Mart (really, i did...you'll understand why I said that once you see the movie)! I loved it sooo much. The movie is in my opinion, one of the best movies of all-time. Steel Magnolias has been my favorite movie for a real long time but I truly think that this movie could possibly take it's place. Oh yeah, the CD...all of the music is wonderful. Martina McBride has always been one of my favorite singers and "There You Are" fits this movie so well. Thank you. SEE THE MOVIE, READ THE BOOK, LISTEN TO THE CD...just do everything that has to do with this story...I'm telling you, it's a one-of-a-kind storyline!

8 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars You won't be disappointed with this one!, April 29, 2000

By A Customer

This sountrack has got a little something for everyone. My favorite songs are: #12 "Just Might Change Your Life" by a group called 3 of Hearts. They are awesome! My next favorite song is #13 "That's The Beat OF A Heart" by The Warren Brothers and Sara Evans. Get it and ENJOY!