Transamerica
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Composer: David MansfieldComposer: Dolly Parton
Edition: Music CD
Format: Soundtrack
CD Release Date: 2006-02-07
Music Label: Nettwerk Records
Soundtracks:
- Dialogue - Transamerica: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
- Jol'Inkomo - Miriam Makeba
- Leaving The City (Score) - David Mansfield
- Dialogue - Transamerica: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
- Take 'Em Away - Old Crow Medicine Show
- Lay My Burden Down - Larry Sparks
- I Am A Pilgrim - Duncan Sheik
- Fish Song - The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
- Dialogue - Transamerica: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
- There's A New Moon Over My Shoulder - Larry Sparks
- Lost In The Lonesome Pines - Ralph Stanley
- I Find Jesus - The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
- You're Gonna Love Me One Day - Heather Myles
- We're All In This Together - Old Crow Medicine Show
- High Plains (Score) - David Mansfield
- Beautiful Dreamer - Graham Green
- Beautiful Dreamer (Score) - David Mansfield
- Dialogue - Transamerica: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
- Odessa Yodel - Wylie & The Wild West
- Like A Rose - Lucinda Williams
- Travelin' Thru - Dolly Parton
Free Music Notes for Transamerica
Free Music Review: Great soundtrack
Hit: 3 Stars
As many other reviewers have stated, this is a great soundtrack, and here we will have to include the dreaded word.....
.... 'but'....
It is very frustrating to watch a movie and enjoy the soundtrack so much that you want to go straight out and purchase it, but you discover that there are important elements missing. While there is a strong 'country' feel, there are also several latin songs in the movie that are not included in the soundtrack. These occur in the restaurant that Bree works in, and they added an important flavour to the mix. For example, a song by the actor Patricio Castillo that was recorded specifically for the film and is not available on any other disc, a song by the legendary Mexican singer Lola Beltran and one by the group Los Pamperos.
It makes you wonder why dialogue is included while these songs are not. Is it a matter of money ? I'm sure anyone interested enough to buy the soundtrack would like it to be complete. One Dolly Parton song does not a soundtrack recording make. Well, for this reviewer, anyway.
Three stars for the good stuff that is there, minus two stars for the important stuff that is missing.
Transamerica Poster
Given the ultraconservative views of the core country music audience, the gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered communities might get a small chuckle out of the fact that the predominant genres on this soundtrack to a film about a pre-operative male-to-female transsexual and her son are country, bluegrass, and gospel. But that music was precisely the right choice. Not only are the two main characters, Bree and Toby, journeying through the heartland of America, but their trip is also a journey of transformation. (And Toby believes the woman who has come to get him is a Christian missionary.) To underscore these points, writer/director Duncan Tucker has hand-picked his songs and artists, especially Duncan Sheik's poignant "I Am a Pilgrim," Wylie and the Wild West's gorgeous "Odessa Yodel," and Old Crow Medicine Show's "Take 'Em Away." And Dolly Parton, whose Oscar-nominated "Travelin' Thru"--a song she wrote specifically for the movie--has long appeared to some as the ultimate female impersonator, given her flamboyant wigs, dress, and oversized smile. More importantly, she has been outspoken in embracing her huge GLBT fan base. Her song boasts a fine lyric about redemption, spiritual searching, and connectedness, even as the melody and arrangement incorporate so many features of her other work that it seems a bit of a retread. Typically, four snippets of dialogue ("That'll put hair on your chest." "Hope not.") are interspersed between songs, and most of them fall flat if you haven't seen the film. Still, like the best of country, bluegrass, and gospel, the album conveys a devout truth that conjures the emotional fervency and release of reaching one's destination--and finally coming home. --Alanna NashCountry Music CDs
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