Jamie Tate
03-11-2004, 07:05 AM
I've been fortunate enough to have been left out of several movies that I recorded music for :rolleyes:... Prince Of Egypt, All the Pretty Horses, Hi Lo Country, and a few I'm ashamed to admit to. Well, I got a DVD of Daddy and Them in the mail today that actually included my name in the end credits.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0000E32V1/002-5661169-0260023?v=glance
Back in 1998 I was in the middle of a six month run recording and mixing an album when we took a week long break to do the soundtrack for a movie Billy Bob Thornton was doing, the follow up to Sling Blade. It turned out to be one of my favorite projects that I've ever been a part of. Billy Bob was great and absolutely hilarious. Jim Varney stopped by a few times and I got to record the title track for a John Prine album (a duet with Iris Demint). Travis Tritt played on it as did Dwight Yoakam and Barry Beckett. The music was written by Marty Stuart and he and his band played it all live in a small room, amps and drums right there next to each other. It was mostly surf type music with a few pretty chord instrumental songs thrown in (as well as a great version of Ghost Riders In The Sky with Dwight and a kooky version of When Johnny Comes Marching Home). Unfortunately, the movie is kinda slow and up until today I'd only seen a three hour version which made things even slower. You do get to hear Andy Griffith say "corn holed" a few times which I think is reason enough to watch the whole movie. It's also Jim "Ernest" Varney's last movie.
I finally watched the released version today. I frantically ran to the closing credits and there was my name, properly spelled!! Whoohooo!!!!
The music sounds like they time crunched it (I guess to make the music written for a 3 1/2 hour movie fit into a 100 minute movie) and the original Dolby Surround mixes I did have been made into 5.1 mixes. I asked (begged) to mix it in 5.1 but that format wasn't as popular back then so they said no. Doesn't matter though as most of the songs are from my live to 2 track mixes I did during the performances. That was Marty's choice not mine. Still, I think they came out just fine.
Look at who's in this thing, Billy Bob Thornton, Laura Dern, Diane Ladd, Kelly Preston, Andy Griffith, John Prine, Jim Varney, Ben Affleck and Jamie Lee Curtis yet Miramax didn't want to release it. I guess they smelled a flop. The movie's just not as good as the music.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0000E32V1/002-5661169-0260023?v=glance
Back in 1998 I was in the middle of a six month run recording and mixing an album when we took a week long break to do the soundtrack for a movie Billy Bob Thornton was doing, the follow up to Sling Blade. It turned out to be one of my favorite projects that I've ever been a part of. Billy Bob was great and absolutely hilarious. Jim Varney stopped by a few times and I got to record the title track for a John Prine album (a duet with Iris Demint). Travis Tritt played on it as did Dwight Yoakam and Barry Beckett. The music was written by Marty Stuart and he and his band played it all live in a small room, amps and drums right there next to each other. It was mostly surf type music with a few pretty chord instrumental songs thrown in (as well as a great version of Ghost Riders In The Sky with Dwight and a kooky version of When Johnny Comes Marching Home). Unfortunately, the movie is kinda slow and up until today I'd only seen a three hour version which made things even slower. You do get to hear Andy Griffith say "corn holed" a few times which I think is reason enough to watch the whole movie. It's also Jim "Ernest" Varney's last movie.
I finally watched the released version today. I frantically ran to the closing credits and there was my name, properly spelled!! Whoohooo!!!!
The music sounds like they time crunched it (I guess to make the music written for a 3 1/2 hour movie fit into a 100 minute movie) and the original Dolby Surround mixes I did have been made into 5.1 mixes. I asked (begged) to mix it in 5.1 but that format wasn't as popular back then so they said no. Doesn't matter though as most of the songs are from my live to 2 track mixes I did during the performances. That was Marty's choice not mine. Still, I think they came out just fine.
Look at who's in this thing, Billy Bob Thornton, Laura Dern, Diane Ladd, Kelly Preston, Andy Griffith, John Prine, Jim Varney, Ben Affleck and Jamie Lee Curtis yet Miramax didn't want to release it. I guess they smelled a flop. The movie's just not as good as the music.