Rod Stewart - Every Picture Tells A Story
Rod the Mod finds his solo footing, headed for stardom, with the Faces in his wake.
6:00 AM GMT 22/06/2011
Features Disc of the day
Richard Thompson
Grizzly Man OST
(Cooking Vinyl, 2005)
Folk guitar genius crafts soundtrack to nature’s revenge.
Werner Herzog’s brilliant 2005 documentary followed bit-part actor/full-time barmpot Timothy Treadwell on his amateur mission to live with, film, and somehow “save” the bears of Katmai, Alaska (mind you, they were already living on a National Park). Bear experts said he’d be ripped apart instantly (they didn’t get it quite right, but I won’t spoil it for you) and there’s a grisly relish to Herzog’s narration that threatens to tip over into the comic. Providing exquisite balance, Thompson’s soundtrack – a ridiculously beauteous portmanteau of bucolic guitar instrumentals – is the straight man, a soulful representation of Treadwell’s mad sincerity and the knee-weakening landscape. His arrangement of Glencoe is a hymnal shanty, the febrile psych lattice of (spoiler alert!) Treadwell No More recalling his acid-folk trip-out amid Fairport Convention’s groundbreaking A Sailor’s Life, and if producer Henry Kaiser and hired help James O’Rourke (you’re not fooling us, Jim!) barely impinge, that’s because Thompson is the don and invented much of what the latter is (OK, rightly) currently lauded for. Bonus! The album’s one vocal track is the closing Coyotes – a stoic interjection by cowboy song veteran Don Edwards that completes the album’s uncanny immersion in nature. Just perfect.
Danny Eccleston
Posted by Ross_Bennett at 6:00 AM GMT 29/08/2008
Further Listening
Various Artists – Zabriskie Point OST (Warner Bros, 1970)
John McEntire – Music From The Motion Picture Reach The Rock (Hefty, 1998)
Bruce Langhorne – The Hired Hand OST (Blast First/Petite , 2004)
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