A Tribute to Robert Altman's Nashville

A Tribute to Robert Altman's Nashville

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Not your average tribute album, this record features some of Vancouver's finest roots musicians covering songs written by actors for a Robert Altman movie about politics, country music, and America in the '70s. Surprisingly (for those who haven't seen Nashville or heard the original soundtrack, anyway) this doesn't mean there's a dearth of A-list material. "I'm Easy," Keith Carradine's paean to laidback love, is here, and Gary Busey's ballad "Since You've Gone" gets a tear-jerking going-over by Sylvia Kenny. Robyn Carrigan lends her feisty pipes to Carradine's closer, "It Don't Worry Me," and project mastermind Carolyn Mark (who plays in the Corn Sisters duo with Neko Case) puts some Nashville-by-way-of-Victoria twang into Ronee Blakely's "My Idaho Home." Case is here too, singing Karen Black's "Rolling Stone," and Chicago alt-country chanteuse Kelly Hogan drops by to sing Blakely's "Dues." The disc is strongest when the musicians treat the material with respect--sure, "For the Sake of the Children" is a corny song, but Dave Lang's take is a little too tongue-in-cheek, and Tolan McNeil sounds like he can barely keep a straight face on "I'm Easy." Overall, though, this tribute is a fascinating labor of love, almost slavish in its devotion, right down to the inclusion of cover readings of some of the movie's campaign speeches. --Shawn Conner

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