Track Listing

1. To Make You Feel My Love - Garth Brooks
2. In Need - Sheryl Crow
3. Honest I Do - Rolling Stones
4. Chances Are - Bob Seger/Matina McBride
5. All I Get - The Mavericks
6. Paper Wings - Gillian Welch
7. Stop In The Name Of Love - Jonell Mosser
8. Wither, I'm A Flower - Whiskeytown
9. What Makes You Stay - Deana Carter
10. To Get Me To You - Lila McCann
11. Smile - Lyle Lovett
12. When You Love Someone - Bryan Adams
13. To Make You Feel My Love - Trisha Yearwood

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #5179 in Music
• Released on: 1998-05-19
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Soundtrack

Amazon.com
Though it follows a standard movie formula and predictable plot twists, the film Hope Floats is saved in part by the above-average performance of Sandra Bullock, portraying a separated woman who finds her way back to her hometown in Texas, daughter in tow. The soundtrack seems to follow in due course, a collection of country and rock (thanks to the Rolling Stones) acts adding shades of twang to songs that, for the most part, all sound fairly familiar. The duds of the bunch, Bryan Adams's "When You Love Someone" and Sheryl Crow's "In Need," are saved in large part by some surprise keepers, courtesy of Garth Brooks, the Mavericks, and Gillian Welch. The covers are interesting enough. Brooks's take on Dylan's "To Make You Feel My Love" is modest and pithy and a far cry from the overblown Trisha Yearwood performance of the same tune that codas the collection. --Jason Verlinde

Entertainment Weekly
Don Was has made his name as purveyor of grown-up roots pop, a genre that runs through the album like wild horses. Sometimes it works: Witness Gillian Welch's "Paper Wings," which resurrects the dark side of Patsy Cline. Yet Was' penchant for adult-oriented tastefulness also leads to sop like Bob Seger and Martina McBride's "Chances Are"... and not one but two vanilla-wafer covers of Bob Dylan's "To Make You Feel My Love" (by Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood).

USA Today
[ Hope Floats] is a self-contained musical feast that also perfectly conjures the film's cycle of heartbreak, healing and renewed hope.... Several tracks capture the pain of lost love, though none as palpably as Gillian Welch's aching "Paper Wings" ("Paper wings, not real at all, but they took me high enough to really fall"). Lyle Lovett's resurrection of Charlie Chaplin's "Smile" nails the classic's ambiguity in a reading that darts from optimism to feigned courage.

Customer Reviews

Not "Like New"
I paid extra to get a copy of this CD that was described as "Like New." The CD plays fine, but the case was nasty and broken. It would have made a much better impression to spend the small amount it costs to replace the case before shipping.

Romantic CD
The "Hope Floats" soundtrack is a very soothing and romantic CD. It's great listening to while relaxing. There's a variety of Artists and some really fun songs!

Birdie's feelings set to music
Good music, starting with Garth and ending with Tricia, sprinkled with Bryan Adams, Deana Carter, Sheryl Crow, Lyle Lovett, The Mavericks, Lila McCann, Jonell Mosser, The Rolling Stones, Bob Seger in a duet with Martina McBride, Gillian Welch, and Whiskeytown....Birdie's's feelings set to music.