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Crossroads: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
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Track Listing
- Crossroads
- Down in Mississippi
- Cotton Needs Pickin'
- Viola Lee Blues
- See You in Hell, Blind Boy
- Nitty Gritty Mississippi
- He Made a Woman Out of Me
- Feelin' Bad Blues
- Somebody's Callin' My Name
- Willie Brown Blues
- Walkin' Away Blues
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #7122 in Music
- Brand: Warner Brothers
- Released on: 1990-10-25
- Number of discs: 1
- Format: Soundtrack
- Original language: English
- Dimensions: .21 pounds
Customer Reviews
The missing "Cuttin' Heads" Guitar Duel
This soundtrack is an excellent display of Ry Cooders considerable talents. But to own the final guitar showdown between Cooder and Steve Vai, purchase Vai's "The Elusive Light and Sound Volume 1" to hear one of the greatest examples of blues and rock guitar.
They Killed the Guitar Solos!
I am totally in agreement with the reviewers who were disappointed by the absence of the Vai-Machio solo-fest. That part of the movie was integral with the story, so it is curious as to why the songs have been deleted.Anyway, as a rabid neoclassical heavy metal fan, I was extremely disappointed with this soundtrack. If you have to get those previously mentioned tidbits, I would recommend buying the video and recording it onto cassette, or burn a CD yourself.The Ralph Maccio acoustic guitar solo where he was thrown out of The Juliard School for inserting the blues riff was based on Mozart's "Rondo Alla Turka." The major theme of the Vai solofest was based on Niccolo Paganini's 24th caprice.Eliot Fisk does an awesome job of playing Paganini's 24 Caprices on guitar, otherwise Yehudi Menuhin or Itzhak Perlman tear it up on violin.Good luck to the disappointed heavy metal guitar fans out there.
Good Soundtrack
Good sountrack, and while I think that the idea was to lean towards blues on this release, some of the best music from the movie isn't on this release. To get that you need the movie DVD, and though I have no complaints in seeing the movie to get hear these tracks, it would have been nice to have them included on the soundtrack.
