A Ten Gallon Hat Flooding Your Heart

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A Ten Gallon Hat Flooding Your Heart

Hold on to your ten gallon hat and enjoy the audio rodeo the Crazy Heart soundtrack takes you on. Cowboy ballads liquored up with thoughtful trials show the bothersome Bad Blake crucifying himself through songwriting. Bad Blake portrayed by Jeff Bridges tackles serious subject matter with new perspective American audiences have come to enjoy. Most movies in the genre go unrecognized whereas Crazy Heart found sanity with various awards being given to the song’s theme “The Weary Kind.” Not even the most cynical listener and viewer could debate the quality of the music gathered together in the film and lauded soundtrack. Even those moviegoers who are not open to country music could appreciate the passion each character expressed as a country crooner. Jeff Bridges found a role of a lifetime and absorbed the life span of the character he put on as easy as a hat.

Musical styles from classic country and western are the foundation of the soundtrack. Many modern listeners miss the distinction between country and western as they more familiar with the widely misused modern country genre. Modern country borders on pop music allowing chart toppers audio ambiguity, but the days of George Jones and music man Hank Williams have not been forgotten. Nashville’s Music Row lines up dreamers and music lovers who work together as a community. The well-known downtown region is country music’s home base where dreamers aspire to work one day. No countryside musician can dismiss the centrally located hub of country music as well as Contemporary Christian music and Gospel music genres. Bad Blake would have naturally assimilated in the “Outlaws” of country and western music which was a force to reckon with. Ironica...

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...eposits with in former films takes a break allowing his vocal abilities to be the primary focus. The believable character he portrays has a raw vocal style which is thoroughly entertaining to his built in audience.

Bad Blake is no boy scout, but a true blue American country artist. The accent Bad Blake applies to the tone of his music naturally blends with his character’s demeanor. Blake is brutal to the bone with everyone he comes in contact though allows songwriting to tame the demons he contends with. When he is not downing his drug of choice, whiskey he hits the bottom of his drinking glass and comes to terms with the man he is once was. The Crazy Heart soundtrack eagerly impels fowl feelings from dejection to realizing you have to choose between the love of your life and the wild lifestyle of acting like a “bad boy” who has outgrown his temper tantrum.

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