Japanese release of very hard to find soundtrack for the 2000 film starring Heather Graham and directed by Lisa Krueger. Featuring an original score by Calexico (17 tracks), it also includes a handful of seven classic tracks that lead off the album, by Don Covay, Esther Phillips, Glen Campbell, Johnny Cash, Faron Young, Ritchie Valens, & Vaqueros del Oeste. Extremely limited. Saidera Records. 2004.
Amazon.com
This is essentially two soundtracks in one. The first seven tracks collect seminal R&B, country, and pop tracks from the late 1950s to early 1960s. You simply cannot go wrong with Don Covay & the Goodtimers' "Mercy, Mercy" (once covered by the Rolling Stones, among others) or Johnny Cash's legendary jailbird anthem, "Folsom Prison Blues" (recorded live at Folsom Prison). Or Glen Campbell's countrypolitan cover "Wichita Lineman." Or...you get the idea.
The soundtrack's second part is in many ways even more impressive. Giant Sand's Joey Burns and John Covertino once took advantage of their band's downtime with the side project Calexico. But Calexico has taken on a life of its own, with a recommended recent new release, Hot Rail, and these 16 tracks, which are mostly atmospheric incidental music ("Bliss / Spokes") that sounds like someone carefully walking over creaky floorboards with twangy guitar and occasional Tex-Mex rhythm. Calexico perfectly mirror that dusty, lazing in the hot desert sun, border town sound their name implies. --Rob O'Connor
Title Tracks for Committed: Music from the Miramax Motion Picture
1. Mercy Mercy - Don Covay & The Goodtimers
2. Release Me (And Let Love In) - Ester Phillips
3. Wichita Lineman - Glen Campbell
4. Folsom Prison Blues - Johnny Cash
5. Hello Walls - Faron Young
6. Donna - Ritchie Valens
7. Rueda De Fuego (Ring Of Fire) - Vaqueros Del Oeste
8. Bliss/Spokes
9. How Do You Know You've Gone Too Far
10. Empty Home
11. Snake Magic
12. TBO
13. Chasing Carri
14. It Was Me
15. Tested To The Limit/Spiritual Vigil
16. A Glimpse
17. Texas
18. Untitled
19. Grampy
20. Shape Shifting
21. Jealous
22. Still Committed
23. This Is What You Do
24. El Morro
Customer Reviews
Average Customer Review
(3 customer reviews)
9 of 12 people found the following review helpful
It's re-recorded instrumentals of Spoke/Black Light/Hot Rail, December 22, 2000
Chris Pearson (Denver, CO United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Committed: Music from the Miramax Motion Picture (Audio CD)
First, I'm a huge Calexico fan and basically have to own everything they release, or my life is like a book missing a chapter. Second, if you've ever listened to their seminal album 'The Black Light', you know they should have been chosen to do the soundtrack to "All the Pretty Horses", not Marty Stuart. Their music lives and breathes the ambient whispers and southwestern desert soul of the novels of Cormac McCarthy. Heck, they're even from Tucson. Well, we can only hope that if "Blood Meridian" ever gets made into a movie, Calexico is chosen to make the original soundtrack recording.So I saw the description of the Committed soundtrack as "music composed and performed by Calexico", and was immediately drawn to buy it. Then, much to my dismay I get the disc and Calexico has re-recorded instrumental versions of their greatest hits of their past three albums. They even renamed the songs! After a string of great albums, including The Black Light...Read more
beautiful soundtrack work from masters, March 22, 2004
Chris Whitehead (AUSTIN, TX United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Committed: Music from the Miramax Motion Picture (Audio CD)
The first part of the cd is very good with classic Cash and a smokin' Tejano version of Ring Of Fire in Spanish(not by Cash). The big payoff for this is the Calexico material which althought not 100% new material, is great. Its mostly reworkings of Calexico songs acoustically without vocals, very moody and smooth but not boring.
1 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Great, June 11, 2000
By A Customer
This review is from: Committed: Music from the Miramax Motion Picture (Audio CD)
(3 customer reviews) 
It's re-recorded instrumentals of Spoke/Black Light/Hot Rail, December 22, 2000 
beautiful soundtrack work from masters, March 22, 2004 
Great, June 11, 2000