My first DVD credit!

I've been fortunate enough to have been left out of several movies that I recorded music for ... Prince Of Egypt, All the Pretty Horses, Hi Lo Country, and a few I'm ashamed to admit to. Well, I got a DVD of Daddy and Them in the mail today that actually included my name in the end credits.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0000E32V1/002-5661169-0260023?v=glance

Back in 1998 I was in the middle of a six month run recording and mixing an album when we took a week long break to do the soundtrack for a movie Billy Bob Thornton was doing, the follow up to Sling Blade. It turned out to be one of my favorite projects that I've ever been a part of. Billy Bob was great and absolutely hilarious. Jim Varney stopped by a few times and I got to record the title track for a John Prine album (a duet with Iris Demint). Travis Tritt played on it as did Dwight Yoakam and Barry Beckett. The music was written by Marty Stuart and he and his band played it all live in a small room, amps and drums right there next to each other. It was mostly surf type music with a few pretty chord instrumental songs thrown in (as well as a great version of Ghost Riders In The Sky with Dwight and a kooky version of When Johnny Comes Marching Home). Unfortunately, the movie is kinda slow and up until today I'd only seen a three hour version which made things even slower. You do get to hear Andy Griffith say "corn holed" a few times which I think is reason enough to watch the whole movie. It's also Jim "Ernest" Varney's last movie.

I finally watched the released version today. I frantically ran to the closing credits and there was my name, properly spelled!! Whoohooo!!!!

The music sounds like they time crunched it (I guess to make the music written for a 3 1/2 hour movie fit into a 100 minute movie) and the original Dolby Surround mixes I did have been made into 5.1 mixes. I asked (begged) to mix it in 5.1 but that format wasn't as popular back then so they said no. Doesn't matter though as most of the songs are from my live to 2 track mixes I did during the performances. That was Marty's choice not mine. Still, I think they came out just fine.


Look at who's in this thing, Billy Bob Thornton, Laura Dern, Diane Ladd, Kelly Preston, Andy Griffith, John Prine, Jim Varney, Ben Affleck and Jamie Lee Curtis yet Miramax didn't want to release it. I guess they smelled a flop. The movie's just not as good as the music.

 

Pretty sweet, Jamie! I'm gonna add it to the ol' netflix queue

 

That's the song. We did that song several times without Iris. It's funny to hear John sing Iris' parts (I caught him once sniffin my undies.) Finally they just tried it with Marty and John on acoustic and John and Iris doing the vocals all live. Jim Varney was there that day and everyone was in a such a good mood. He made all of us laugh so hard we were gasping for air and they did this song as a performance for Jim, knowing how sick he was at the time.

Here's another credit that was botched up.

 

Oops, sorry. I meant the title track to John's record. It plays during the movie credits (time compressed as it is )

 

Congrats Jamie!

 

Jamie, congrats!!!!!!!

Hope you'll continue to post here now that you've achieved this level of fame!

mud-

 

Jamie,

Good going!

Bob

 

Wow! That's our SONG! My wife and I played that throughout our honeymoon.

Oh, and congratulations Jamie!

 

JAMIE, YOU HANDSOME DEVIL, WAY TO GO!!!


Don't let it go to your head, is all....


ED

 

Way to go, Jamie!!!!!!!

 

I'm actually on a DVD, Amanda Marshall's Montreal show. My brother and I are in the audience.

 

Good job, Jamie!

Jim W

 

Just a warning to anyone that may watch this movie. There's a lot, I mean LOT of foul language, and I don't mean chickens. Things get pretty descriptive. You'd be embarrassed to watch it with your mom, kids or priest.

 

Way to go, Jamie!!!!

 

I watched the movie this past week and it does stink...I think it was trying to be a comedy (its about a very noisy white trash family). One interesting thing is the relationship of Laura Dern and Billy Bob....they were real lovers at one time till ole Billy Bob dumped her for Angeline Jolie. I can see why after watching this movie.

But the music is excellent and I did see Jamie's music credit at the end.

 

Billy Bob had just finished filming Pushing Tin, which is where he met Angelina. He would talk to Laura Dern and then call Angelina. It was a big secret at the time.

 

Can I have your autograph?