Music from and Inspired By The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes

by Flatland Cavalry, Olivia Rodrigo, Rachel Zegler

Overview

The Dave Cobb-produced soundtrack for the fifth entry (and first prequel) in the Hunger Games franchise, Music from and Inspired by The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes is notably more stripped back and rustic in nature than its predecessors, in keeping with the film's setting and subtitle. A set of haunted country-folk ballads with a few lively bluegrass tunes thrown in for good measure, it also includes the similarly somber acoustic pop song "Can't Catch Me Now" by Olivia Rodrigo, which was written for the film by Rodrigo and song producer Dan Nigro. Much of the rest of the album is performed by lead actress Rachel Zegler, in only her second film after winning accolades for her big-screen breakthrough as Maria in Steven Spielberg's West Side Story. While she is in fine form here, some of the highlights from the 17-song set include additional songs by guests including Molly Tuttle ("Bury Me Beneath the Willow"), Bella White ("Burn Me Once"), and Charles Wesley Godwin, who delivers a road-weary, solo guitar-accompanied version of David Rawlings and Gillian Welch's "Winter's Come and Gone." The fictional Covey Band is featured on four tracks, including two with Zegler that are among those written by Cobb and Hunger Games novelist Suzanne Collins. Taking into account its consistently ash-tinted tone, the album enjoyed modest chart success abroad and landed in the Top 20 of Billboard's country albums chart and in soundtracks' Top Three. ~ Marcy Donelson

Product Details

Release Date:	02/02/2024
Label:	Geffen
UPC:	0602458828788

Tracks

1. Can't Catch Me Now  - Olivia Rodrigo
2. The Hanging Tree  - Rachel Zegler
3. Wool  -  Flatland Cavalry
4. Nothing You Can Take from Me  - Rachel Zegler
5. The Garden  - Sierra Ferrell
6. The Ballad of Lucy Gray Baird  - Rachel Zegler
7. Bury Me Beneath the Willow  - Molly Tuttle
8. The Old Therebefore/Singing at Snakes  - James Newton Howard  - Rachel Zegler
9. Burn Me Once  - Bella White
10. District 12 Stomp  -  Covey Band
11. Nothing You Can Take from Me [Boot-Stompin' Version]  -  Covey Band  - Rachel Zegler
12. Cabin Song  - Billy Strings
13. Lucy Gray, Pt. 1  - Rachel Zegler
14. Pure as the Driven Snow  -  Covey Band  - Rachel Zegler
15. Winter's Come and Gone  - Charles Wesley Godwin
16. Keep on the Sunny Side  -  Covey Band  - Josie Hope Hall
17. Lucy Gray, Pt. 2  - Rachel Zegler

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Rachel Zegler   Primary Artist,Vocals
Olivia Rodrigo   Primary Artist,Vocals (Background)
Flatland Cavalry   Primary Artist,Vocals
The Covey Band   Primary Artist
Sierra Ferrell   Primary Artist,Vocals
Billy Strings   Primary Artist,Guitar,Vocals
Charles Wesley Godwin   Primary Artist,Vocals,Guitar (Acoustic)
Josie Hope Hall   Primary Artist,Vocals
James Newton Howard   Primary Artist,Vocals
Bella White   Primary Artist,Guitar (Acoustic),Guitar,Vocals
Molly Tuttle   Primary Artist,Guitar,Vocals
Wesley Hall   Fiddle
Carmella Ramsey   Fiddle
Paul Cartwright   Viola,Violin
Dave Cobb   Drums
Billy Contreras   Fiddle
London Voices   Vocals
Brian Allen   Bass
Alex Hargreaves   Fiddle
Daniel Nigro   Bass,Guitar,Vocals (Background),Keyboards,Mellotron
Dominick Leslie   Mandolin,Vocals (Background)
Oliver Craven   Guitar (Acoustic),Vocals (Background)
Royal Masat   Double Bass
Geoff Saunders   Bass,Vocals (Background)
Jarrod Walker   Mandolin
Cleto Cordero   Vocals,Guitar (Acoustic),Vocals (Background)
Kaitlin Butts   Vocals (Background)
Reid Dillon   Slide Guitar
Jonathan Saenz   Bass,Vocals (Background)
Jason Albers   Percussion
Billy Failing   Banjo
Chappell Roan   Vocals (Background)

Technical Credits

Bella White   Producer,Composer
Traditional   Composer
David Rawlings   Composer
Greg Koller   Mixing,Engineer
Jon Brion   Producer
Mark Neill   Mixing,Engineer,Producer
Vance Powell   Recording
Pete Lyman   Mastering Engineer
Gillian Welch   Composer
Paul Cartwright   Arranger
Dave Cobb   Composer,Producer,Programming
Shawn Murphy   Mixing
James Newton Howard   Composer,Producer
Gary Paczosa   Mixing,Engineer,Producer
J. Howard Entwisle   Composer
Adam Lee   Engineer
William Wordsworth   Composer
Jeff Atmajian   Orchestra Contractor
Eric Cadieux   Editing
Daniel Bacigalupi   Assistant Mastering Engineer
Brandon Bell   Recording
Randy Merrill   Mastering Engineer
Daniel Nigro   Mixing,Composer,Engineer,Producer
Suzanne Collins   Composer,Musician,Revision
Ada Blenkhorn   Composer
Molly Tuttle   Producer
Oliver Craven   Composer
Eddie Spear   Engineer,Producer
Wesley Schultz   Composer
Mike Fahey   Assistant Engineer
Ethan Barrette   Editing
William Apostol   Composer
Cleto Cordero   Composer
Olivia Rodrigo   Composer
Michael Dean Parsons   Producer
Charles Wesley Godwin   Producer
Sierra Ferrell   Composer
Phillip Smith   Recording,Assistant Engineer
Dylan Waterhouse   Engineer