Hope Floats: Music From The Motion Picture

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Product description The film’s soundtrack was released in 1998 under the
production of Don Was. The album included the works of several country music
and adult contemporary artists, including Garth Brooks, The Rolling Stones,
Bob Seger and Sheryl Crow. One of its cuts, Brooks’s “To Make You Feel My
Love,” was a Number One single on the Billboard country singles charts in
August 1998. Though it follows a standard movie formula and
predictable plot twists, the film Hope Floats is saved in part by the above-
average performance of Sandra Bullock, portraying a separated woman who finds
her way back to her hometown in Texas, daughter in tow. The soundtrack seems
to follow in due course, a collection of country and rock (thanks to the
Rolling Stones) acts adding shades of twang to songs that, for the most part,
all sound fairly familiar. The duds of the bunch, Bryan Adams’s “When You Love
Someone” and Sheryl Crow’s “In Need,” are saved in large part by some surprise
keepers, courtesy of Garth Brooks, the Mavericks, and Gillian Welch. The
covers are interesting enough. Brooks’s take on Dylan’s “To Make You Feel My
Love” is modest and pithy and a far cry from the overblown Trisha Yearwood
performance of the same tune that codas the collection. –Jason Verlinde
Review Don Was has made his name as purveyor of grown-up roots pop, a genre
that runs through the album like wild horses. Sometimes it works: Witness
Gillian Welch’s “Paper Wings,” which resurrects the dark side of Patsy Cline.
Yet Was’ penchant for adult-oriented tastefulness also leads to sop like Bob
Seger and Martina McBride’s “Chances Are”… and not one but two vanilla-wafer
covers of Bob Dylan’s “To Make You Feel My Love” (by Garth Brooks and Trisha
Yearwood). — Entertainment Weekly [ Hope Floats] is a self-contained musical
feast that also perfectly conjures the film’s cycle of heartbreak, healing and
renewed hope…. Several tracks capture the pain of lost love, though none as
palpably as Gillian Welch’s aching “Paper Wings” (“Paper wings, not real at
all, but they took me high enough to really fall”). Lyle Lovett’s resurrection
of Charlie Chaplin’s “Smile” nails the classic’s ambiguity in a reading that
darts from optimism to feigned courage. — USA Today [T]he overriding tone of
the music is, “There, there, now–buck up, kid.” Fortunately, the main theme
that bookends the album is a good one: Bob Dylan’s “Make You Feel My Love,”
sung first (and with touching understatement) by Garth Brooks. — Los Angeles
Times

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Product Details:

• Is Discontinued By Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
• Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 4.94 x 0.45 inches; 3.68 Ounces
• Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ Capitol
• Item model number ‏ : ‎ AManPro-0034617
• Original Release Date ‏ : ‎ 1998
• Run time ‏ : ‎ 1 hour and 54 minutes
• Date First Available ‏ : ‎ October 21, 2006
• Label ‏ : ‎ Capitol
• Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1