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| ARTIST: | Jay Farrar |
| CATEGORY: | Music |
| MANUFACTURER: | Bloodshot Records |
| FEATURES: | Soundtrack |
| TYPE: | Pop, Soundtracks & Film Scores |
| MEDIA: | Audio CD |
| TRACKS: | Open Ground, Gather - Jay Farrar, Rank Stranger - Vic Chesnutt, Frost Heaves, When I Stop Dreaming - Freakwater, Odessa Yodel - Wylie & the Wild West, Highwood, Gaterhing Flowers for the Master's Banquet - Blood Oranges, Augusta, To Be Young (Is to Be Sad, Is to Be High) - Ryan Adams, Buffalo Jump, West of Samoa - Speedy West and Jimmy Bryant, Freight, Dark Early, Porchlight - Neko Case, Tonight I Think I'm Gonna Go Downtown - Flatlanders, Cold Chimes, Gumption, Killing the Blues - Malcolm Holcombe, Hangman, Blue Eyes - Uncle Tupelo, Open Ground (reprise), Will There Be Any Stars in My Crown? - Pernice Brothers |
| UPC: | 744302008721 |
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Customer Reviews of The Slaughter Rule
Farrar soars, but "alt-whatever"-ites thud Look no further for a practical and applicable synopsis of the state of alt-country in 2003 (and beyond) than this soundtrack to a masterful and engaging film "The Slaughter Rule", piloted by unbelievably thrilling score music by Jay Farrar. His "Gather" is every bit as enthralling as last year's masterpiece "Drain" from "Sebastopol". The vignettes "Highwood" and "Augusta" border on beauty, while "Buffalo Jump" and "Gumption" reflect sadder passages. It gives us a mighty good reason to look forward to the release of his second solo record later this summer, and demonstrates that a whole lot of distance and maturity have increased exponentially with each new Farrar release. It's sort of swell that he appears abandoned by the fan base that nurtured both Uncle Tupelo to stardom and his own Son Volt to alt-country demigod status. More power to him, poster-boy for artistic integrity and phenomenal music to boot.
How pathetic, then, that his score music has to be placed alongside some of the most obnoxious and wasteful roots material in the genre, illustrating a sad lack of evolution on the part of an entire movement, once seen as able to topple mountains but now living up to "No Depression" Magazine's always coy statement "alt-country, whatever that is." What it is, on "The Slaughter Rule", is cutesy throwaway trash ("West of Samoa"), the eight-millionth attempt by Freakwater to be significant ("When I Stop Dreaving" is hideous, plain and simple), and flat-out crap (the first person to admit that they actually like Blood Oranges' "Gathering Flowers" is condemned to a lifetime of listening to hackneyed third-rate yuppie pseudo-folk). For what it's worth, we get the last country song Ryan Adams ever recorded ("To Be Young" from his first solo album), which is actually a standout, and we are graced with some lovely singing by Neko Case. But the entire operation seems to oscillate between the beauty of Farrar's tunes and the garbage between, spewed by more legions of twenty-something irony-junkies in retro clothing and vintage amps and equipment purchased on daddy's Visa card.
Enough, you legions of twisted, untalented fools!! Can we please, PLEASE declare a moratorium on bad attempts at squeezing every shred of credibility from a trend that has already survived many a rehash? Get your heads out of those headphones blasting Gram and write something engaging and truly revolutionary, for goodness sake!!! It's 2003, and the only guy on the horizon doing anything relatively interesting with folk music is staring you down track-by-track on this album. How embarassing. Or enlightening, if you want to be predictable about it.
This Soundtrack Fits The Film Like A Glove
Jay Farrar has taken his share of negative reviews since the end of Son Volt. I myself have been guilty of such. The reviews of many critics changed little with the release of the soundtrack to The Slaughter Rule, complilation and score by Farrar. Here I have to disagree. This soundtrack revels all the creativity fans of Farrar are familiar with. Farrar puts together 12 tracks by artist that reads like a whos-who of Alta-Contry and Folk including, Neko Case, Blood Oranges, Vic Chesnutt, Freakwater, Jimmie Dale Gilmore, Ryan Adams, Farrar, and an Uncle Tupelo cover of Gram Parsons' Blue Eyes. Interspersed between song tracks are ll short instrumental compilations composed by Farrar. Here Farrar's incredible songwriting talent returns to us in these haunting melodies. Like Tweedy's Chelsea Walls sountack, your enjoyment of the audio disc will be greatly enhanced by viewing the film. Unlike many sountracks, the soundtrack from The Slaughter Rule fits the film like a glove.
Excellent Soundtrack To An Equally Brilliant Movie!!
'The Slaughter Rule' is one of last year's best films and the soundtrack ranks alongside 'Paris,Texas' and 'Betty Blue'. The soundtrack flows beautifully from Jay Farrar's instrumentals to
a great collection of Americana music and back. All good soundtracks tell the story through music and this is one of those.