Track Listing
1. How Can You Refuse Him Now - Holly Williams
2. Stranger in a Strange Land - Leon Russell/The Shelter People
3. Are You Afraid to Die - Ricky Skaggs
4. Please Carry Me Home - Jessi Colter/Shooter Jennings
5. Ave Maria - Dolores O'Riordan
6. Why Me - Lee Ryan
7. Darker With the Day - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
8. Where No One Stands Alone - Elvis Presley
9. Harms Way - The Ghost Who Walks
10. By the Rivers Dark - Leonard Cohen
11. Precious Lord - Blind Boys Of Alabama
12. Not Dark Yet - Bob Dylan
| Details | | Distributor: | Universal Distribution | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes
Producers: Lian Lunson, Mel Gibson, Peter Afterman.
Mel Gibson's controversial film THE PASSION OF THE CHRIST, about the final hours in the earthly life of Jesus, was initially accompanied by an album featuring John Debney's score. While a soundtrack full of more pop-oriented material would have been out of place in the film, it's perfectly appropriate in the guise of "songs inspired by" Gibson's movie. Naturally, there's a strong spiritual theme running throughout the collection, but it's voiced in a variety of ways.
Country music has always been closely aligned to gospel, so it seems natural to find Ricky Skaggs offering "Are You Afraid to Die." A sub-theme of country legends' offspring pops up with Holly Williams offering a spare, fragile rendition of her grandfather Hank's "How Can You Refuse Him Now," and Waylon Jennings's son Shooter joining his dad's widow on the pair's own "Please Carry Me Home." Gibson had a strong hand in the track selection, which likely led to the inclusion of goth troubadour/fellow Aussie Nick Cave ("Darker with the Day"). Two master songwriters of an older generation appear as well; the ever-biblical Leonard Cohen contributes the moody "By the Rivers Dark," and Bob Dylan closes things out with the appropriately redemptive "Not Dark Yet."
Editorial Reviews
[T]his compilation of faith-based songs is curious--and marvelous. - Rating: B+
Entertainment Weekly (04/09/2004)
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