| Jerry Douglas | Guitar (Resonator) |
| Sam Bush | Mandolin |
| Patty Loveless | Track Performer |
| Dolly Parton | Track Performer |
| Iris DeMent | Track Performer |
| Hazel Dickens | Track Performer |
| Julie Miller | Track Performer |
| Steve Buckingham | Dulcimer |
| Dennis Crouch | Bass |
| Stuart Duncan | Fiddle |
| Larry Franklin | Fiddle |
| Emory Gordy | Acoustic Guitar |
| Tony Harrell | Harmonium |
| David Mansfield | Fiddle, Conductor |
| Dean Parks | Guitar |
| Carmella Ramsey | Fiddle, Background Vocals |
| Deanie Richardson | Fiddle, Mandolin |
| Tammy Rogers | Fiddle |
| Darrell Scott | Acoustic Guitar, Banjo, Mandolin |
| Jeff White | Acoustic Guitar, Background Vocals |
| Glenn Worf | Upright Bass |
| Chris Farren | Percussion, Background Vocals |
| Deana Carter | Background Vocals |
| Gillian Welch | Banjo |
| Sara Evans | Track Performer |
| Bryan Sutton | Guitar |
| Allison Moorer | Track Performer |
| Tracy Hackney | Dulcimer |
| Rosanne Cash | Arranger |
| Steve Buckingham | Producer |
| Neal Cappellino | Engineer, Digital Editing |
| Emory Gordy | Producer |
| John Leventhal | Arranger, Producer, Engineer, Instrumentation |
| David Mansfield | Arranger, Programming, Producer, Engineer, Adaptation, Instrumentation |
| Steve Marcantonio | Engineer |
| Gary Paczosa | Engineer |
| Dennis Ritchie | Engineer |
| David Thoener | Engineer |
| Chris Farren | Arranger, Producer |
| Gillian Welch | Arranger, Producer |
| David Rawlings | Arranger, Producer, Engineer |
| Georgette Cartwright | Creative Services Coordinator |
| Glen Neibaur | Engineer |
| Chris Covert | Producer |
| Ken Levitan | Producer |
| John Saylor | Engineer |
| Kimberly Levitan | Art Direction |
| Traditional | Composer |
Anonymous
Posted October 1, 2010
I don't think that what you are showing available is the ORIGINAL soundtrack from the movie that I have watched , with pure delight,numerous times on TV. Was there an original soundtrack made available and if so where might I purchase it. Thank You
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Posted October 1, 2010
Most of the singers sounded authentic, not trained voices,but telling the stories with feeling. If Emmy Rossum does not have a CD out with "Barbara Allen" and others, she should. The character, Earl, was a surprise when he awoke from being knocked out and sang the first verse of "A Conversation With Death". Some of the accents were authentic, but the young man who worked for the school, and who ultimately burned the school, used a non-mountain accent, especially noticed when he said, "Where'd you get that fancy thing?" To earn her Oscar in "CoalMiner's Daughter", Sissy Spacek spent a lot of time with Loretta Lynn and learned the accent. She only made one blunder, which surprised me that it was allowed to pass, when she said, "They just die. They all die." These characters would have sounded more realistic if they learned the southern mountain way of pronouncing vowels.
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Posted October 1, 2010
Having just seen the movie, I quickly started to look for the music of my own youth. The truth from the folks who were born to it with melodies washing over them constantly from cradle to grave. Tears of truth and roots of real love and wonderment of their hearts live forever in their songs.
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Posted October 1, 2010
What a piece of history. Music gets your hands clappin' and feet moving. The movie and sound track are fantastic. Not being a ''blue grass'' listener, the music moves you into a different time; a relaxed, not rushed time; a simpler time. Pure enjoyment.
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Posted October 1, 2010
Maybe I misheard. But this was not the movie's soundtrack. The treatment was modernized and was tolerable. But the changes took some of the guts and heart out of many of the songs. A few, however, still shine through.
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Posted October 1, 2010
This CD sends the listener back to the days of pure, simple, expressive music. It's a joy to listen to and a great relaxation tool.
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Posted October 1, 2010
The emergence of ''O Brother Where Art Thou'' made me fall in love with that which I always considered ''country music for hayseeds and hillbillies''. I completed fell in love with bluegrass. The soundtrack to ''Songcatcher'' has the same appeal as ''O Brother'', with mainly female artists. It hasn't left my CD player since I purchased it. Although the version of ''O Death'' doesn't hold a candle to the version on the OBWAT soundtrack, I highly recommend ''Songcatcher''. I especially adore track # 6, ''Wayfarin' Stranger'' by Maria McKee. What a voice!
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Posted October 1, 2010
City slickers and hillbillies alike will love these songs sung in the Appalachian style ;-) Many of them are old English folk songs that came to America with the settlers and the narratives differ so much from lyrics penned today it's just plain fun to hear them, plus the female vocals will blow you away. So real, so powerful, so good - these women don't need a studio filled with sound engineers to make up for starved anorexic voices.
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Posted April 17, 2010
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Editorial Reviews
Barnes & Noble - David McGee
Like its counterpart soundtrack O Brother, Where Art Thou?, the splendid traditional fare on Songcatcher doesn't need visuals to be profound and deeply soul stirring. An independent film set in 1907, Songcatcher tells the story of Dr. Lily Penleric, a prim and proper musicologist who discovers the all-male review board has denied her tenure, whereupon she embarks on an eye-opening -- and ear-opening -- visit to her sister in the Western Mountains of North Carolina. The stellar female voices giving life to an ages-old repertoire "Barbara Allen," "Wayfarin' Stranger," "Moonshiner," et al. include those of Rosanne Cash, Julie Miller, Allison Moorer, Emmylou Harris, Iris ...