Gods & Generals

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This prequel to director Ronald Maxwell's 1993 epic Gettysburg is no less sweeping in its scope, covering the early years of the American Civil War from Manassas to Fredericksburg. But while its musical score (a collaboration between vets John Frizzell and Randy Edelman) offers up a comparable range of music styles, it's a soundtrack that crucially revolves around emotional concerns of a more intimate, human scale. Its folk-rooted historical connections are given voice by Mary Fahl's Celtic-tinged "Going Home" and Bob Dylan's brooding "Cross the Green Mountain," while a sweeping, yet infinitely melancholy orchestral main title suggests the true, tragic costs of the conflict. Spare, haunting tracks like "Loved I Not Honor More," "My Home Is Virginia," and "The Soldiers Return" predominate to an unusual degree in a war epic, pastoral suggestions of tranquility defiled. Conversely, the battle cue "VMI Will Be Heard from Today" seems to pulse with a dark, medieval energy that's anything but heroic. --Jerry McCulley

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1. Going Home (performed by Mary Fahl), 2. Gods and Generals, 3. You Must Not Worry For Us, 4. Loved I Not honor More, 5. Lexington Is My Home, 6. The School Of The Soldier, 7. Go To Their Graves Like Beds, 8. My Heart Shall Not Fear, 9. These Brave Irishmen, 10. To The Stone Wall, 11. You'll Thank Me In The Morning, 12. The First Crop Of Corn, 13. My Home Is Virginia, 14. No Photographs, 15. VMI Will Be Heard From Today, 16. Too Much Sugar, 17. Let Us Cross Over The River, 18. The Soldier's Return, 19. 'Cross The Green Mountain (performed by Bob Dylan), ISBN13: B00007MB7Q ISBN10: B00007MB7Q Material Type: audioCD