2003-12-30
The latest soundtrack assembled by uber-producer T-Bone Burnett features numerous renditions of traditional ballads performed by Americana elite like Alison Krauss, Tim O'Brien and Dirk Powell. The highlight, though, is the recasting of The White Stripe's Jack White as an acoustic country blues musician. Is there an Oscar for "Best Supporting Musician"?
DREW LANDRY
Sharecropper's Whine
Rachel Harrington
The Bootleggers Daughter
Grant Peeples And The Peeples Republik
A Congress of Treasons
Kate Jacobs
You Call That Dark
CATHERINE MACLELLAN
Water in the Ground
JEB LOY NICHOLS
Parish Bar
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