Yeeeeeeeeeeeehaaaa!!

He querido, en una sola entrada, presentaros a una cantante con una voz deliciosa, continuar con nuestra recién inaugurada sección de bandas sonoras, demostrarle a Cólin que hay canciones más tristes (y ya de paso ponerle nervioso creando dos etiquetas NUEVAS e INNECESARIAS de un tirón) e introduciros en el maravilloso mundo del Country. Para ello, os traigo dos canciones, más una bonus track. ¡No os quejaréis!.

La primera es de Alison Krauss, una cantante estadounidense que tuve el placer de conocer a través de la película "Oh Brother". No os voy a dejar un tema suyo de la película (aunque os recomiendo mucho la banda sonora) sino otra canción que he descubierto hace poco y que tiene letra de leyenda. Quizá esta chica os suene de los últimos Grammys ya que Robert Plant y ella arrasaron con su último disco juntos "Raising sand" llevándose 5 galardones. El disco, que también os recomiendo, lo podéis escuchar aquí.

Alison Krauss - Jacob's Dream

In the spring of 1856 with the snow still on the ground
Two little boys were lost in the mountains above the town
The father went out hunting the boys had stayed behind
While mother tended to her chores they wandered from her side

The two had gone to follow him and lost their way instead
By dusk the boys had not been found and fear had turned to dread
200 men had gathered there to comb the mountain side
The fires were built on the highest peak in hopes they'd see the light

Oh mommy and daddy why can't you hear our cries
The day is almost over, soon it will be night
We're so cold and hungry and our feet are tired and sore
We promise not to stray again from our cabin door

Now Jacob Diverd woke one night from a strange and erie dream
He saw a path between two hills near a dark and swollen stream
He told his wife he saw the boys huddled close beside a log
For two more nights the dream returned this vision sent from God

[...]

A thousand men had searched in vain the west side of pop's creek
But Jacob's wife knew of this place and said to travel east
With a guide to take him there, Jacob came upon the scene
And found the boys cold and still beneath the old birch tree

Oh mommy and daddy, look past the tears you cry
We're both up in Heaven now, God is by our side
As you lay us down to rest in the presence of the Lord
Know that we will meet you here at Heaven's door

No digáis que no es triste...¡poor little kids!



La segunda del día sí que pertenece a la grandiosa banda sonora de "Oh Brother", de hecho es el tema central, aunque está vez está interpretada por los "Soggy bottom boys" o como se llaman en realidad, "Union Station".

Union Station - Man Of Constant Sorrow

I am a man of constant sorrow
I've seen trouble all my days
I bid farewell to ol' Kentucky
The place where I was born and raised.
(The place where he was born and raised)

For six long years I've been in trouble,
No pleasure here on Earth I've found
For in this world, I'm bound to ramble,
I have no friends to help me now.
(He has no friends to help him now)

It's fair thee well, my old true lover,
I never expect to see you again.
For I'm bound to ride that Northern Railroad,
Perhaps I'll die upon this train
(Perhaps he'll die upon this train)

You can bury me in some deep valley,
For many years where I may lay.
And you may learn to love another
While I am sleeping in my grave.
(While he is sleeping in his grave)

Maybe your friends think I'm just a stranger
My face you never will see no more
But there is one promise that is given,
I'll meet you on God's golden shore
(He'll meet you on God's golden shore)

Pero, ¡qué ven mis ojos! ¿Quién toca el violín? Si señores, en este negocio todo el mundo se conoce.



¿A que no habéis podido evitar llevar el ritmo con los pies? ;-)

Para terminar sin salirnos del Country ni del las BSO, os dejo un agradable minitema instrumental de Gustavo Santaolalla que pertenece a la banda sonora de "Brokeback Mountain". Para los que no hayáis visto la peli aquí tenéis un resumen de 30 segundos para enteraros de qué va, aunque con lo controvertido del argumento sería difícil no hubiérais oído hablar de ella.



¡A disfrutarlo!