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June 28, 2007

Stream M. Ward & Bright Eyes' Contributions To The Hottest State

Earlier this week we got a listen of Feist's take on the Jesse Harris-penned "Somewhere Down The Road," part of the Harris-in-covers project hatched by Ethan Hawke for his upcoming big screen novel adaptation The Hottest State. Now you can head to myspace.com/thehotteststate for more listens, including M. Ward and Conor Oberst's takes on Jesse tunes "Crooked Lines" and "Big Old House," respectively. Really feeling the Bright Eyes cut, one of the soundtrack's absolute highlights -- no small feat considering the artist list (Willie, Emmylou, Mehldau, and Chan). Plus, you can hear Harris's interpretation of his own tune ("One Day"), how quaint. They guy's looking better by the second. Haven't given his new one Feel a spin yet, but that'll change soon. (Ethan, Jesse ... your plan is working.)

The Hottest State Soundtrack is out 8/7 via Hickory. Tracklist below.

01. Rocha - "Ya No Te Veria Mas (Never See You)"
02. Willie Nelson - "Always Seem to Get Things Wrong"
03. Feist - "Somewhere Down the Road"
04. Bright Eyes - "Big Old House"
05. Emmylou Harris - "The Speed of Sound"
06. Jesse Harris - "It Will Stay With Us"
07. The Black Keys - "If You Ever Slip"
08. M. Ward - "Crooked Lines"
09. Norah Jones - "World of Trouble"
10. Brad Mehldau - "Never See You"
11. Cat Power - "It's Alright to Fail"
12. Jesse Harris - "One Day The Dam Will Break"
13. Tony Scherr - "You, The Queen"
14. "Morning In A Strange City (Cafe)" (score)
15. Rocha - "No More
16. Jesse Harris - "Dear Dorothy"
17. Rocha - "Never See You"
18. "There Are No Second Chances" (score)

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You can download some of it and watch the trailer here.
http://theplaylist.blogspot.com/2007/06/hottest-state-soundtrack.html

Posted by: The Playlist at 06/28/07 10:33 AM | Reply
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What a lineup. Those are some of my favorite artists. It's too bad that they didn't tap Bill Frisell to contribute an instrumental guitar track. He's played on Jesse Harris, Norah Jones, and Tony Scherr's records. It would have fit right in with the rest of the lineup.

Posted by: jonsnow at 06/28/07 3:19 PM | Reply
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On a related note, does anyone know anything about the film The Go-Getter?

It's apparently scored by M.Ward, and he's even got a bit part in it, but I can't find out anything more about when and where it will exist for people to actually see.

Posted by: tk. at 06/28/07 4:09 PM | Reply
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Thanks for very interesting article. btw. I really enjoyed reading all of your posts. It’s interesting to read ideas, and observations from someone else’s point of view… makes you think more.
So please keep up the great work. Greetings.

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