A Prairie Home Companion Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
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Edition: Music CDAudio: English (Original Language)
Format: Soundtrack
CD Release Date: 2006-05-23
Music Label: Watertower Music
Soundtracks:
- Tishomingo Blues Â? Garrison Keillor
- Gold Watch & Chain Â? Garrison Keillor & Meryl Streep
- Mudslide Â? The Guys All-Star Shoe Band
- Let Your Light Shine On Me Â? Garrison Keillor, Robin & Linda Williams, Prudence Johnson
- Coffee Jingle Â? Garrison Keillor & Jearlyn Steele
- Summit Avenue Rag - The Guys All-Star Shoe Band
- GuyÂ?s Shoes - The Guys All-Star Shoe Band
- Whoop-I-Ti-Yi-Yo Â? Woody Harrelson & John C. Reilly
- Coming Down From Red Lodge - The Guys All-Star Shoe Band
- You Have Been A Friend To Me Â? L.Q. Jones
- Old Plank Road Â? Robin & Linda Williams
- My Minnesota Home Â? Meryl Streep & Lily Tomlin
- A Bunch of Guys - The Guys All-Star Shoe Band
- Slow Days Of Summer Â? Garrison Keillor
- Frankie & Johnny Â? Lindsay Lohan
- WaitinÂ? For You - The Guys All-Star Shoe Band
- Jens JensenÂ?s Herring - The Guys All-Star Shoe Band
- Red River Valley Â? Garrison Keillor & Jearlyn Steele
- StrappinÂ? the Strings - The Guys All-Star Shoe Band
- Goodbye To My Mama Â? Meryl Streep & Lily Tomlin
- Bad Jokes Â? Woody Harrelson & John C. Reilly
- The Day Is Short Â? Jearlyn Steele
- Atlanta Twilight - The Guys All-Star Shoe Band
- Red River Valley / In The Sweet By And By Â? Cast Ensemble
- Guy Noir - The Guys All-Star Shoe Band
Free Music Notes for A Prairie Home Companion Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Free Music Review: A Prairie Home Companion Homecoming
Hit: 5 Stars
After you see the wondrous movie, you ought to have the accompanying soundtrack. All the Prairie Home Companion regulars whom we regular listeners know and love-- Butch Thompson, Robin and Linda Williams, The Guys All-Star Shoe Band, Richard Dworsky, Jearlyn Steele, Prudence Johnson et al.-- are here, along with "musical" guests Meryl Streep, Lily Tomlin, Woody Harrelson, L. Q. Jones, Lindsay Lohan, Tim Russell and John C. Reilly. Guy Noir, Private Eye, would say that Garrison Keillor's fingerprints are all over this CD, as well they should be. After all Mr. Keillor IS the show so he sings with a lot of the other performers and has written some of both the words and lyrics to some of the selections here. His "Goodbye To Mama" is as good a bluegrass tear-jerker as you will want to hear; and with most songs of this persuasion, you don't know if you should laugh or cry. It reminded me a little bit of "Song For Mama" that the Carter Sisters recorded in the seventies. Speaking of the Carters, two A. P. Carter songs made the cut: "Gold Watch And Chain," sung by Meryl Streep and Mr. Keillor and "You Have Been A Friend To Me." If Ms. Streep ever decides to stop making movies, she certainly has a career as a country western/bluegrass singer. Her duets with Lily Tomlin are some of the best on this CD. Of course we found out she could sing when she was in the film POSTCARDS FROM THE EDGE. Harrelson and Reilly's hooty jokes are included here-- I wouldn't have missed them-- and the "Red River Valley/In The Sweet By And By" sung by the entire ensemble. I was certain I heard "Softly and Tenderly" sung in the movie, but it's omitted here.
The accompanying musicians are all superb. I particularly like the occasional filigree of Linda Williams' banjo and Richard Dworsky's piano, somewhere between honkytonk and gospel-- I suppose it depends on what day of the week he is playing as to what you call it.
"A Prairie Home Companion" is a close second to my favorite soundtrack CD of recent years, "O Brother Where Art Thou." As Mr. Keillor would say, it's as good as "Powder Milk Biscuits."
A Prairie Home Companion Original Motion Picture Soundtrack Poster
Garrison Keillor's long running public radio show, "A Prairie Home Companion" is now the center of a Robert Altman film of the same name starring Keillor, Meryl Streep, Lily Tomlin, Woody Harrelson, John C. Reilly, Kevin Kline, Lindsay Lohan, Virginia Madsen, Maya Rudolph, and Tommy Lee Jones. The story is a fictional one of what happens on and off stage during the last broadcast of the beloved radio show. The soundtrack showcases the spectacular onstage performances by the cast. Offered here is a regular audio-only version and a CD + DVD deluxe version packed with performance footage and film outtakes.At long last, Lindsay Lohan and Meryl Streep sing on the same CD. Okay, so they don't actually duet, but both do perform on the soundtrack to Robert Altman's take on Garrison Keillor's popular radio show. (Keillor fans will know exactly what to expect, as the film is scrupulously faithful to his universe, and Keillor and his Shoe Band wrote a good deal of the songs.) As anybody who's seen Postcards from the Edge knows, Streep can really sing, and she sounds great in the rootsy, old-style country vein that makes up most of this soundtrack. Her rollicking duets with her screen sister Lily Tomlin, "My Minnesota Home" and "Goodbye to My Mama," are priceless. Woody Harrelson and John C. Reilly are beyond crusty on "Whoop-I-Ti-Yi-Yo," which sounds like both an outtake from and a parody of O Brother, Where Art Thou?, while "Bad Jokes" is, well, just that. As for Lohan, who plays Streep's daughter, her version of "Frankie & Johnny" is a little shaky but hea! rtfelt and kinda adorable. Purists, you can start hollering now. --Elisabeth Vincentelli
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