Various Artists - Inside Llewyn Davis/ Original Soundtrack

Includes a never-before-released recording of Bob Dylan performing "Farewell

"A great film by two American masters, the Coens have taken a real time and place and freely made it their own, drawing on actual persons and events for inspiration, but binding themselves only to their own bountiful imaginations. The result is playful and evocative. There is also the joy of the music itself, exquisitely arranged by T Bone Burnett and sung live on set by the actors themselves. The soundtrack is stupendous." — Variety

"Joel and Ethan Coen's wonderful new film is the kind of great work that cuts right through the noise." — The New York Times

The soundtrack to "Inside Llewyn Davis," from Nonesuch Records. Written and directed by Academy Award winners Joel and Ethan Coen and produced by Scott Rudin and Joel and Ethan Coen, the film stars Oscar Isaac, Carey Mulligan, John Goodman, Garrett Hedlund, and Justin Timberlake.

Produced by T Bone Burnett, Joel Coen, and Ethan Coen, with Marcus Mumford as its associate producer, the album features 12 new recordings created especially for the film and soundtrack. Also included is a never-before-released recording of Bob Dylan performing his song "Farewell," which was originally recorded during the sessions for his album The Times They Are A-Changin' and is available exclusively on this soundtrack.

"Inside Llewyn Davis" is the Coen brothers' fourth collaboration with the Grammy and Academy Award-winning Burnett; his soundtrack to their film "O Brother, Where Art Thou? " won five Grammy Awards, including Album of the Year and Producer of the Year. "Inside Llewyn Davis" won the Grand Prix at the Cannes International Film Festival.

"Inside Llewyn Davis" follows a week in the life of a young folk singer as he navigates the Greenwich Village folk scene of 1961. Llewyn Davis (Oscar Isaac) is at a crossroads. Guitar in tow, huddled against the unforgiving New York winter, he is struggling to make it as a musician against seemingly insurmountable obstacles some of them of his own making. Living at the mercy of both friends and strangers, scaring up what work he can find, Davis' misadventures take him from the basket houses of the Village to an empty Chicago club on an odyssey to audition for music mogul Bud Grossman and back again. Brimming with music performed by Isaac and Justin Timberlake and Carey Mulligan, as well as Marcus Mumford and Punch Brothers, "Inside Llewyn Davis" in the tradition of "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" is infused with the transportive sound of another time and place.

 

Side 1

1. Hang Me, Oh Hang Me - Oscar Isaac

2. Fare Thee Well (Dink's Song) - Marcus Mumford and Oscar Isaac

3. The Last Thing On My Mind - Stark Sands w/Punch Brothers

4. Five Hundred Miles - Justin Timberlake, Carey Mulligan, Sstark Sands

5. Please Mr. Kennedy - Oscar Isaac, Justin Timberlake, Adam Driver

6. Green, Green Rocky Road - Oscar Isaac

Side 2

7. The Death of Queen Jane - Oscar Isaac

8. The Storms Are On the Ocean - Nancy Blake

9. The Shoals of Herring - Oscar Isaac w/Punch Brothers

10. The Auld Triangle - Chris Thile, Chris Eldridge, Marcus Mumford, Justin Timberlake, Gabe Witcher

12. Fare Thee Well (Dink's Song) - Oscar Isaac

13. Farewell - Bob Dylan

14. Green, Green Rocky Road - Dave Van Ronk

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