"Black Snake Moan" was released January 30, 2007 by New West Records featuring various artists including four tracks performed by Jackson himself. The 17 tracks cover classic to modern blues. As a stand-alone album, these 17 tracks are sure to give anybody, blues fan or not, a major taste of what blues music embodies: human struggle. Rootsy and spiritual, down-and-out but hopeful, each track is drunk and steeped on old-time blues, and can be best summed up by the “Father of the Delta Blues,” Son House. He says this on the blues: “Sometimes that kind of blues will make you even kill one another or do anything, that kind of love that’s where the blues started.” This soundtrack to the film written and directed by Craig Brewer is as steeped in the Southern blues as his Hustle and Flow was in hip-hop. The biggest surprise here is how well actor Samuel L. Jackson (who seems to have a thing for "Snake" films) holds his own as a blues singer against selections from Son House and R.L. Burnside. He sounds like a throwback to the classic Delta bluesmen on "Just Like a Bird Without a Feather," does a convincing take on the Blind Lemon Jefferson title track, and rocks the juke joint on "Alice Mae" and a down-and-dirty recasting of "Stack-O-Lee." Produced by the Bo-Keys' Scott Bomar (who also scored Brewer's previous movie), the 17-cut soundtrack features a kaleidoscopic array of blues, from the primal throb of the Black Keys' "When the Lights Go Out" and the funk of Bobby Rush's classic "Chicken Heads" to the spiritual lilt of Precious Bryant's "Morning Train" and the North Mississippi Allstars' expansive finale, "Mean Ol' Wind Died Down."
01. "Scott Bomar - Opening Theme" - 0:38
02. "Son House - Ain't But One Kind of Blues" - 0:11
03. "Samuel L.Jackson - Just Like a Bird Without a Feather" - 2:22
04. "The Black Keys - When the Lights Go Out" - 3:13
05. "Jessie Mae Hemphill - Standing in My Doorway Crying" - 4:40
06. "Bobby Rush - Chicken Heads" - 2:32
07. "Samuel L.Jackson - Black Snake Moan" - 4:04
08. "Precious Bryant - Morning Train" - 3:00
09. "John Doe - The Losing Kind" - 2:33
10. "Outrageous Cherry - Lord Have Mercy on Me" - 3:04
11. "Scott Bomar - Ronnie and Rae's Theme" - 1:08
12. "Scott Bomar - The Chain" - 2:50
13. "Samuel L.Jackson - Alice Mae" - 3:48
14. "Samuel L.Jackson - Stack-o-lee" - 3:30
15. "R.L.Burnside - Old Black Mattie" - 4:10
16. "Son House - That's Where the Blues Started" - 0:21
17. "North Mississippi Allstars - Mean Ol' Wind Died Down" - 7:31
Release: January 30, 2007
Label: New West Records
Genre: Blues
Length: 49:35
Producer: Various
Personnel
Samuel L.Jackson
Son House
The Black Keys
Jessie Mae Hemphill
Bobby Rush
Precious Bryant
Outrageous Cherry
John Doe
Scott Bomar
R.L.Burnside
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