Singer/songwriter/producer and Americana stalwart T Bone Burnett seems to be practicing a sort of genre alchemy with the upcoming Hunger Games soundtrack (March 20.)
Mr. Burnett seems to be taking poetic license with Suzanne Collins’ trilogy which follows the heroine, whose home in District 12 that encompasses current-day Appalachia, an region Burnett knows something about. The setting of the books is a sort of future version of the old frontier which also plays to Burnett’s wheelhouse.
Burnett excels in making neo-rustic music that would appeal more to Hunger Game readers parents. The young women that are the primary demographic for the books are more likely to be fans of indy rock, pop or country pop.
Burnett displays his craft to fuse his world to the new audience adeptly on the Taylor Swift and Civil Wars track “Safe and Sound.” Now he’s done the same for the same for the Pistol Annies’ cut Run Daddy Run. The song is sung by the group, which consists of Miranda Lambert, Ashley Monroe and Angaleena Presley, and sounds more akin to O Brother’s Didn’t Leave Nobody but the Baby sung by Emmylou Harris, Alison Krauss and Gillian Welch. This is a different sound than the sassy country found on the recent Pistol Annies debut.
Check out the track below and let me know what you think.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYhvKabzUZ4&feature=player_embedded
Indeed a different sound from Pistol Annies debut, but I am not dissapointed. It’s actually good and I think will be also appreciated by Taylor Swift’s young audience. Speaking of, there is also another amazing girl from Texas who can definitely sing and the complete package – Bethany LaPrade (facebook.com/BethanyLaPrade).