Walk the Line (soundtrack)

Walk the Line
Soundtrack album by Various Artists
Released November 15, 2005
Recorded 2005
Genre Bluegrass Country
Length 41:38
Label Wind-Up
Producer T-Bone Burnett
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic [1]

Walk the Line is a Grammy Award-winning soundtrack from the movie Walk the Line released November 15, 2005 by Wind-Up Records. There are nine songs performed by Joaquin Phoenix, four songs by Reese Witherspoon, one song by Waylon Payne, one song by Johnathan Rice, two songs by Tyler Hilton, and one song by Shooter Jennings. At the Golden Globe Awards Joaquin Phoenix was awarded the Best Actor - Musical or Comedy and Reese Witherspoon was awarded the Best Actress - Musical or Comedy, as well as the film won the Best Picture - Musical or Comedy. Joaquin Phoenix and Reese Witherspoon also nominated for Academy Award for Best Actor and Best Actress, which Witherspoon won.

Walk the Line is an enhanced CD which also contains two deleted scenes from the film, Phoenix performing "Rock 'n' Roll Ruby" and Phoenix and Witherspoon together near the scene of "Jackson".

The cover features the two stars in an early publicity still, several of which were created (and later included as bonus postcards in the Collector's Edition DVD).

As of May 17, 2006 the soundtrack was certified platinum by the RIAA with over 1,000,000 copies sold.

On February 11, 2007 this album won a Grammy for Best Compilation Soundtrack Album for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media.

Contents

Track listing

  1. "Get Rhythm" - Joaquin Phoenix – 2:26
  2. "I Walk the Line" - Joaquin Phoenix – 3:20
  3. "Wildwood Flower" - Reese Witherspoon – 2:31
  4. "Lewis Boogie" - Waylon Payne – 2:01
  5. "Ring of Fire" - Joaquin Phoenix – 3:42
  6. "You're My Baby" - Johnathan Rice – 2:12
  7. "Cry! Cry! Cry!" - Joaquin Phoenix – 2:35
  8. "Folsom Prison Blues" - Joaquin Phoenix – 2:52
  9. "That's All Right" - Tyler Hilton – 1:46
  10. "Juke Box Blues" - Reese Witherspoon – 2:15
  11. "It Ain't Me Babe" - Joaquin Phoenix/Reese Witherspoon – 3:05
  12. "Home of the Blues" - Joaquin Phoenix – 2:40
  13. "Milk Cow Blues" - Tyler Hilton – 2:19
  14. "I'm a Long Way from Home" - Shooter Jennings – 2:15
  15. "Cocaine Blues" - Joaquin Phoenix – 2:50
  16. "Jackson" - Joaquin Phoenix/Reese Witherspoon – 2:49

Additional tracks

The film also featured a variety of country, rockabilly and traditional scoring. They were not featured on the soundtrack CD.

  1. "Engine 143" - The Carter Family
  2. "Highway 61 Revisited" - Bob Dylan
  3. "Didn't It Rain" - Sister Rosetta Tharpe
  4. "Dark Was the Night, Cold Was the Ground" - Blind Willie Johnson
  5. "Volksmusik Medley" - Hans Glisha Orchestra
  6. "I Was There When It Happened" - The Blackwood Brothers
  7. "Try Me One Time" - Willie Nix
  8. "Ain't That Right" - Eddie Snow
  9. "Boogie Blues" - Earl Peterson
  10. "I Miss You Already" - Faron Young
  11. "Defrost Your Heart" - Charlie Feathers
  12. "Feelin' Good" - Little Junior's Blue Flames
  13. "Bop Bop Baby" - Wade and Dick
  14. "Rock With My Baby" - Billy Riley
  15. "Rock N' Roll Ruby" - Joaquin Phoenix
  16. "Fujiyama Mama" - Wanda Jackson
  17. "She Wears Red Feathers" - Guy Mitchell
  18. "Easy Does It" - Lewis LaMedica
  19. "Hey Porter" - Joaquin Phoenix
  20. "Candy Man Blues" - Mississippi John Hurt
  21. "I Got Stripes" - Joaquin Phoenix
  22. "Light of the Night" - Werner Tautz
  23. "You Get To Me" - Minnie and the Minuettes
  24. "Times a'Wastin'" - Joaquin Phoenix and Reese Witherspoon
  25. "Cartoon World"
  26. "Ghost Town/Poem For Eva" - Bill Frisell
  27. "In the Sweet By and By"
  28. "Long Legged Guitar Pickin' Man" - Johnny Cash and June Carter
  29. "Rainy Day Women #12 & 35" - Bob Dylan

Chart performance

Chart (2006) Peak Certification (sales)
Australian Albums Chart 2 Platinum (70,000)
Austrian Albums Chart 3
Canadian Albums Chart 4 2x Platinum (200,000)[2]
Danish Albums Chart 39
Dutch Albums Chart 68
French Albums Chart 55
German Albums Chart 12
Swiss Albums Chart 17
U.S. Billboard 200 9 Platinum (1,000,000)[3]
U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums 3
U.S. Billboard Top Soundtracks 1
New Zealand Albums Chart 6 Gold (7,500)

References

  1. ^ Allmusic review
  2. ^ CRIA Gold & Platinum certifications for November 2006. Retrieved July 25, 2007.
  3. ^ http://www.riaa.com/goldandplatinumdata.php?table=SEARCH