Black Snake Moan (Soundtrack)

Black Snake Moan (Soundtrack)


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Samuel L. Jackson - Black Snake Moan
  1. Scott Bomar – Opening Theme
  2. Son House – Ain’t But One Kind of Blues
  3. Samuel L. Jackson – Just Like A Bird Without A Feather
  4. The Black Keys – When The Light Go Out
  5. Jessie Mae Hemphill – Standing In My Doorway Crying
  6. Bobby Rush – Chicken Heads
  7. Samuel L. Jackson – Black Snake Moan
  8. Precious Bryant – Morning Train
  9. John Doe – The Losing Kind
  10. Outrageous Cherry – Lord Have Mercy On Me
  11. Scott Bomar – Ronnie and Rae’s Theme
  12. Scott Bomar – The Chain
  13. Samuel L. Jackson – Alice Mae
  14. Samuel L. Jackson – Stack-O-Lee
  15. R.L. Burnside – Old Black Mattie
  16. Son House – That’s Where The Blues Started
  17. North Mississippi Allstars – Mean Ol’ Wind Died Down

Bio

New West Records will release the original soundtrack to the feature film Black Snake Moan January 23, 2007 one month ahead of the nationwide theatrical release from Paramount Vantage. Black Snake Moan, a darkly modern tale of love, betrayal, sex, and salvation set in the Deep South from Writer-Director Craig Brewer stars Samuel L. Jackson, Christina Ricci, and Justin Timberlake.

As Brewer’s 2005 Academy Award-winning silver screen debut Hustle & Flow depicted the underground world of Dirty South rap, Black Snake Moan, which was filmed in Memphis, Tennessee and surrounding environs, employs as a setting the contemporary North Mississippi hill country music scene, revealing its sound through purveyors like the North Mississippi Allstars, R.L. Burnside, and Jessie Mae Hemphill.

For his portrayal of Lazarus, a reformed bluesman who attempts to reform the sex-addicted Rae (possibly Ricci’s juiciest role), Jackson honed his singing chops and took guitar lessons before picking up the Gibson ES-335 – custom-painted purple – that he plays in the movie. Constructing the movie’s musical scenes, Scott Bomar, the film’s music supervisor (he also scored Hustle & Flow), paired Jackson’s voice with musicianship from players like Alvin Youngblood Hart, Kenny Brown, Big Jack Johnson, and Jason Freeman, parlaying blues classics like the raucously vulgar “Stack-O-Lee” and, of course, “Black Snake Moan,” into sinister, 21st century laments.