Walk the Line
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Edition: Music CDAudio: English (Original Language); Russian (Original Language)
Format: Enhanced, Soundtrack
CD Release Date: 2005-11-15
Music Label: Wind-Up
Soundtracks:
- Get Rhythm -- Joaquin Phoenix
- I Walk The Line -- Joaquin Phoenix
- Wildwood Flower -- Reese Witherspoon
- Lewis Boogie Blues -- Waylon Payne
- Ring Of Fire -- Joaquin Phoenix
- You're My Baby -- Johnathan Rice
- Cry Cry Cry -- Joaquin Phoenix
- Folsom Prison Blues-- Joaquin Phoenix
- That's Allright Mama -- Tyler Hilton
- Jukebox Blues -- Reese Witherspoon
- It Aint Me Babe -- Joaquin Phoenix & Reese Witherspoon
- Home of the Blues -- Joaquin Phoenix
- Milkcow Blues Boogie -- Tyler Hilton
- I'm A Long Way From Home -- Shooter Jennings
- Cocaine Blues -- Joaquin Phoenix
- Jackson -- Joaquin Phoenix & Reese Witherspoon
Music reviews of Walk the Line
Music Review: a terrific soundtrack album
Rating: 5 Stars
The soundtrack to the movie Walk The Line showcases excellent singing by Joaquin Phoenix, Reese Witherspoon and other artists on this CD who all perform to perfection! This is the perfect complement to the movie for people who enjoyed it and own the DVD in their collections. The quality of the sound is excellent and I like that artwork, too.
"Get Rhythm" starts the CD with Joaquin Phoenix (who played Johnny Cash) singing and playing his very best; he sings this wonderfully--who knew he could sing like that? The electric guitar works very well for this number and it's also a strong start to the album. "I Walk The Line" is essentially the title track for the movie and this CD; and Joaquin Phoenix performs this without a hitch. I can really hear him singing from the bottom of his heart and he pulls this off faultlessly! Again, the arrangement for the guitar is flawless and "I Walk The Line" is easily a major highlight of this CD. I love it. Then we get treated to Reese Witherspoon's rendition of "Wildwood Flower;" "Wildwood Flower" showcases her fine ability to sing and play the guitar along with the best of them. "Wildwood Flower" is very pretty and the melody also keeps Reese squarely front and center--which is quite all right by me.
"Lewis Boogie" is performed by Wayne Malloy Payne; Wayne does this one up right! The piano rocks and this early rock number sounds like it was tailor made for Wayne Malloy Payne. I'm very impressed; and the guitar work only serves to enhance the number. Payne also plays Jerry Lee Lewis in the movie Walk The Line.
"You're My Baby" rocks hard even up against today's standards; Jonathan Rice does this with loads of positive energy and it's another major highlight of this soundtrack album. Jonathan Rice plays Roy Orbison in the movie Walk The Line; and his way of playing Roy's song surely would have made Roy proud! In addition, there's "Cry Cry Cry" done by Joaquin Phoenix; he sings this wonderfully just as he does more than his best on "Folsom Prison Blues." I really like "Folsom Prison Blues" and just one listen will tell you why.
"It Ain't Me Babe" is a wonderful country tune performed by Joaquin Phoenix and Reese Witherspoon. They harmonize very, very well and the music fits in perfectly with their vocals. "Milk Cow Blues" by Tyler Hilton also shines; the music is loud but it never actually drowns out Tyler who plays Elvis Presley in the movie Walk The Line. "I'm A Long Way From Home" gets the royal treatment from Shooter Jennings who plays Waylon Jennings in the movie; Shooter sings this passionately and it's a terrific number. The album also ends very well with Joaquin Phoenix and Reese Witherspoon performing "Jackson." "Jackson" is a marvelous duet with so much positive energy that it leaves you wanting more!
The soundtrack album from the movie entitled Walk The Line gives us so much awesome music I can't tell you just how much fun it is to hear these grand tunes. I highly recommend this CD for fans of the movie; and people who like Johnny Cash may also want to get this album.
Thank you, everyone! Great job!
Description of Walk the Line
This is not a review about Joaquin Phoenix and Reese Witherspoon's hair. However--as any self-respecting fan knows--in country music, after proving you can pluck a guitar and carry a tune, the power of the right hairstyle is not to be underestimated. Johnny Cash, in fact, was famously vain about his locks--perhaps one of the few things he was vain about--and many a guitar store employee can attest to the fact that when the Man in Black came in to buy his special brand of guitar pick, his hair was dyed a jet black more often seen on a boy of 20 than a man of 60. In any case, Phoenix and Witherspoon's performances as Johnny and June Carter Cash succeed more in the style and hair department than in their musicality. Phoenix fares better than his co-star in reinventing the Cash mystique, and his sweet, almost earnest interpretation of "Get Rhythm" is as charming as it is honest. Unfortunately, the powerful song "Ring of Fire" is flat and wholly without the narrative pull it had when Cash sang it. And Witherspoon is simply not up to the warbling task she's faced with in singing as June Carter Cash. (To be fair, it's hard to know who would be, but the estimable Loretta Lynn or Tift Merritt would have had better luck). Carter Cash's honeyed gift with melody, and the largeness of her voice, honed over decades in live performance, is hard to replicate for even a seasoned singer, and predictably, Witherspoon falls short of the mark. It's certainly seductive to imagine that playing a figure as compelling as Johnny or June would allow an actor to channel the soul and some of the talent of the artist, but the closest this record comes is in "Cry, Cry, Cry," where Phoenix's gravelly voice offers the same sustained thrill that made Johnny Cash irresistible--to June and his fans. --Megan HalversonAlt-Country & Americana CDs
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