Album A Day: Walk The Line: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

Artist: Joaquin Phoenix, Reese Witherspoon, et al
Album: Walk The Line: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Release Date: November 15, 2005

Walk the Line is a rarity on two fronts; first, it is the rare musical biopic that makes it out of the rare “Hey, what if there was a movie about ____?” phase (films about Marvin Gaye, Keith Moon, and others have been “in development” for ages). Second, it is both a decent film as well as a stellar soundtrack. If you can get past the initial jolt of Joaquin Phoenix’s impersonation of the Man In Black, you’ll hear some fairly interesting, stripped-down versions of Johnny Cash classics. Rather than go the route of awkward karaoke versions of Cash’s music (as well as that of Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis and Waylon Jennings), Walk The Line’s soundtrack features new, albeit faithful arrangements of old favorites. I don’t know any die hard fans of Cash or any of the aforementioned artists, but if they exist, I feel like they’d have a hard time complaining about the treatment given to the source material.

Joaquin Phoenix – Folsom Prison Blues [iTunes] (YSI)

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