Listen to the Mockingbird

Track Listings

1. Mockingbird With Great Crested Flycatcher, Rufous-Sided Towhee, Loggerh

2. Mockingbird With Laughing Gull, Carolina Wren, Cardinal, White-Eyed Vir

3. Brown Thrasher With Song Sparrow, Field Sparrow, House Wren, American G

4. Curve-Billed Thrasher With Gila Woodpecker, Gambel's Quail, Bendire's T

5. Mockingbird With Fish Crow Tufted Titmouse, Wood Thrush, House Finch, O

6. Mockingbird With Acorn Woodpecker, Rufous-Sided Towhee, Scott's Oriole,

7. Gray Catbird With White-Throated Sparrow, Rose-Breasted Grosbeak, Swain

8. Tropical Mockingbird With Anthrush, Peppershrike, Streaked Flycatcher,

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Listen to the Mockingbird

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Don't Remeber THIS "Alamo"

Defending the Alamo

Excellent CD

Enjoyable a-typical score

None Better

The Alamo

Manufacturer: Hollywood Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B0001NBN6G
Release Date: 2004-04-06

Tracks:

Flesh And Honor
300 Miles Of Snow
What We're Defending
El Bexareno
La Zandunga
Who Took Their Loved Ones
Listen To The Mockingbird Sing
The Evacuation Of Bexar
The Calm After The Storm
The Visitation Of Saint Ursula
Quiet Mountain
They Ain't Bear
Bonham's Ride
Sell Our Lives Dearly
Night Falls On The Alamo
Deguello De Crockett
The Last Night
The Battle Of The Alamo, Part 1
The Battle Of The Alamo, Part 2
The Battle Of The Alamo, Part 3
The Battle Of The Alamo, Part 4
The Battle Of The Alamo, Part 5
The Battle Of The Alamo, Part 6
The Death Of Crockett
Runaway Scrape
Blood, Or Texas

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Carter Burwell cut his film scoring teeth on many a Coen brothers movie, quickly gaining a reputation for a quirky, human-scaled inventiveness that informed everything from jazz and folk to orchestral music and even the well-timed nod to Morricone. That often introspective sensibility is well paired to director John Lee Hancock's revisionist take on the legend of San Antonio's fabled doomed fortress, which focuses more on the conflicted human dimensions of its characters than familiar cardboard, pop culture heroics. Burwell's use of orchestral pomp is deliberate and decidedly restrained; more often the composer leans on spare, evocative passages of simple, though ever-inventive folk-based music (like the elegiac "Quiet Mountain") played by various combinations of guitar, banjo, and violin. Vintage traditional Mexican and American tunes are also given their atmospheric due via Jennifer Hammond's and Craig Eastman's arrangements of "La Zandunga" and "Listen to the Mockingbird Sing," respectively. But its Burwell's own peculiarly modernist instincts that inform both tradition ("Crockett's DeGuello") and his own masterfully understated cues, particularly the bleak, almost gothic emotional landscape of his six-part "Battle of the Alamo Suite" and its bittersweet coda, "Blood or Texas." --Jerry McCulley

Customer Reviews:

Don't Remeber THIS "Alamo".......2006-07-21

When making another version of a film that has already been made producers,directors,performers,and score composers are too often tempted to "do it differently",as if by twisting and turning a basic premise they will succeed..The classic film version of"The Alamo"is and remains the John Wyane version,which was nominated for several academy awards.Granted,the John Wyane version had little to do with actual history,but,then again,the purpose of the film industry has always been to entertain,not to teach..John Wyane,who produced and directed,as well as being the star of that film chose Dimitri Tiomkin to score his film.
Tiomkin,and old-line symphonic genius,provided a magnificent score,at once adventurous and poingnant..
The people responsible for this version of"The Alamo"decided to teach,rather than entertain,and,at the same time attempted to be politically correct as well.Thus,the mythic aspects inherent in the John Wyane version were replaced by morally ambiguous nonsense,and heroics were more or less eliminated in favor of a rather desperate survival theme,coupled with some added imperialistic touches with the addition of the Sam Houston charecter as a major player along with Bowie,Crockett,and Travis.
The people responsible for this film ,having many fine symphonic-oriented composers to choose from instead opted for minalmism by Carter Burwell..One can hardly imagine,for instance,a five-star gourmet meal served on a foam plate,with plastic knife and fork.Likewise one can hardly imagine a would-be epic western (even if it is very revisionist)bearing a score that plays like a new-age snoozer...But this is exactly what Burwell has given us...There are no epic themes here...There is an enormous orchestra credited as having participated in this project however when one listens to the finished product one is hard-pressed to HEAR any evidence of this participation.
John Wyane's script called for a lot of action on-screen,and Tiomkin obligingly provided very suitable musical themes..
The script for this new film does not call for very much action,even short-changing the audience during the final battle scene by shooting it in near-darkness,and underscoring it with a dirge-like monotone.
This new film was"troubled"from the very start.Ron Howard was supposed to direct but he didn't.The cast was shuffled around several times.Some "Main"charecters were eliminated entirely ,although thier traces continued to show up in the trailers released for this movie..While on the subject of the trailers for this film,the music used in them was 110% better than the Burwell claptrap..Scenes featured in the trailers were actually NOT in the finished film.The film was scheduled for a christmas opening,a slot usually reserved for top-of-the-line oscar contenders,and was then,suddenly yanked,and later released in April,where it died a much-deserved death after about a week in theatres,a colossal flop.
The film was terrible,and part of this is due to the Burwell score which is terrible-plus.

Defending the Alamo.......2005-09-09

I enjoyed the film and, in particular, the intelligent and sensitive portrayal of David Crockett but...so much had been cut by the time it was released as a DVD in England. The soundtrack is pleasant enough so if you liked it on the screen you will enjoy the CD but we do not have the Deguello on its own, (but have the haunting duo with David Crockett's fiddle), and we do not have the saucy little tune played at San Jacinto. On balance, worth buying.

Excellent CD.......2005-06-22

This is an excellent CD. If you are interested in this CD you will love "Audio Tour of the Alamo and Old San Antonio of the Wild West". This CD will gudie you around the Alamo Battlefield in present day San Antonio sshowing yu the actual locations of events of the battle. To hear a sample of this audio tour go to
http:www.alamoaudiotours.com you can also purchase this CD here on Amazon.com

Enjoyable a-typical score.......2005-03-05

Most war movies have underscore's that pulse with energy and power of battle. Carter Burwell takes another course. His music is melancholy and some people have taken the celtic sounding music and complained out it but I found the music to be powerful and perfectly fitting with the movie. The Alamo is also enjoyable as a single listening experience although it does help to have seen the movie. I particularly enjoyed the track where Crockets fiddle is combined with the Mexican "Slit Throat" band. Overall, I found this cd to be enjoyable and it gets better every time i listen to it.

None Better.......2004-12-01

A few comments about the movie The Alamo, if you would indulge me for a moment. It is pertinent. I didn't have high expectations for this film, the trailers I saw made it out to be another larger-than-life, ain't-afraid-of-nothing, cliché-filled motion picture. We lived in San Antonio for several years, it is a great town filled with wonderful people. We visited the Alamo on several occasions. It is a holy place for Texans, sacred, and being "non-Texans" I am sure most of the locals felt we really couldn't appreciate or even grasp the significance of the place, the honor of those who fought and died there. I must admit it was all somewhat lost on me. Thus, I was fully expecting this movie to be overdone and nauseating, especially considering I am not the biggest fan of two of the lead actors (Billy Bob Thorton and Dennis Quaid).

OK, please bear with me, I will get to my point in a second. We ended up renting the film as I had heard the cinematography was sensational (it was). But my biggest surprise was the film itself. Not the script, not the actors, but the entire film. I can't really put into words how good it was, not perfect, but an excellent motion picture and probably an accurate depiction of the individuals and events as they occurred. And both Thornton and Quaid were exceptional...they deserve Oscars come January, and it will be a shame if they don't get them.

Now, concerning this soundtrack. To put it simply, if this CD isn't the best soundtrack winner for 2004, then there is a conspiracy going on. It isn't on Amazon's editors picks, nor the customer's favorites list, I chalk that up to being it was just recently released. However, it should be on both, and highly competitive for the top honors this year. It is simply that good. Carter Burwell set a new standard with the soundtrack for O Brother, Where Art Thou? and may have exceeded it with this one. The music here just puts the visualizations of the movie back into my head...the music retells the story as well as the images.

The bottom like is fairly straightforward, if you liked the movie than you owe it to yourself to get this soundtrack. There is absolutely no way you will be anything other than engrossed in it.

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Listen To The Mockingbird

Manufacturer: Arabesque Recordings
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
ASIN: B00093Z7F6

Product Description

1. She's The Sweetest Of Them All; 2. The Kerry Dance 3. The Horicultral Wife 4. Home! Sweet Home! 5. Crossing the Grand Sierras 6. I wonder Who's Kissing Her Now 7. The "Rag Time Dance" (Joplin) 8. Listen To the Mockingbird 9. Some Folks (Foster) 10. The Last Rose of Summer 11. I Took Her To The Ball 12. The ASh Grove 13. My Old Kentucky Home

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Amazing mockingbird songs, but sometimes not so wonderful

Listen to the Mockingbird
Dan Gibson
Manufacturer: Solitudes
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

Environmental | New Age | Styles | Music

General | New Age | Styles | Music

Meditation | New Age | Styles | Music

Relaxation | New Age | Styles | Music

Nature | New Age | Styles | Music
ASIN: B0000E3328
Release Date: 2003-11-04

Tracks:

Mockingbird With Great Crested Flycatcher, Rufous-Sided Towhee, ...
Mockingbird With Laughing Gull, Carolina Wren, Cardinal, ...
Brown Thrasher With Song Sparrow, Field Sparrow, House Wren, ...
Curve-Billed Thrasher With Gila Woodpecker, Gambel's Quail, ...
Mockingbird With Fish Crow Tufted Titmouse, Wood Thrush, House ...
Mockingbird With Acorn Woodpecker, Rufous-Sided Towhee, Scott's ...
Gray Catbird With White-Throated Sparrow, Rose-Breasted Grosbeak, ...
Tropical Mockingbird With Anthrush, Peppershrike, Streaked Flycatcher,

Customer Reviews:

Amazing mockingbird songs, but sometimes not so wonderful.......2004-11-07

Mockingbirds are really amazing birds in the way that individual birds can make a whole symphony worth of songs, and this CD did a good job in showing such aspect of the bird. However, I think this CD is not truly relaxing but disturbing when the mockingbird screeches in one track or two. I recommend Solitude CDs with pianos if you want really relaxing ones. However, if you are interesting in learning mockingbird song patterns, then this one's good.

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Listen to the Mockingbird
The Eight Hand String Band
Manufacturer: Eight Hand String Band
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Country | Styles | Music

General | Traditional Country | Country | Styles | Music

General | Bluegrass | Country | Styles | Music

Traditional Folk | Folk | Styles | Music
ASIN: B000CAF45Y
Release Date: 2005-05-03

Tracks:

Arkansas Traveler
Listen to the Mockingbird
Goober Peas
She'll Be Comin' Round the Mountain
Girl I Left Behind Me
Hard Times
Marching Through Georgia
Soldier's Joy
Polly Wolly Doodle
Dixie's Land
Angel Band
Old Joe Clark/Red Haired Boy
Oh! Suzanna
Hush Little Baby

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Listen to the Mockingbird

Manufacturer: New England Dancing Masters Productions
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
ASIN: B000FK8JL2

Product Description

More Great Dances for Children, Schools & Communities.

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Listen To The Mockingbird

Manufacturer: A Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
ASIN: B000A1G91S

Product Description

21 Tracks

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