19 Songs, 44 Minutes
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Carter Burwell
| TITLE | TIME | |
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Mildred Goes to War
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1:24 | |
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The Deer
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2:09 | |
| 3 |
Buckskin Stallion Blues
Townes Van Zandt
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3:04 |
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A Cough of Blood, A Dark Drive
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2:38 | |
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I've Been Arrested
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0:40 | |
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Fruit Loops
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1:32 | |
| 7 |
His Master's Voice
Monsters of Folk
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4:51 |
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Billboards on Fire
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2:25 | |
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Slippers
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1:22 | |
| 10 |
Martha (opera in 4 Acts), Act II: Last Rose of Summer
By Friedrich von Flotow - Renée Fleming, Jeffrey Tate & English Chamber Orchestra
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4:54 |
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My Dear Anne
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2:37 | |
| 12 |
Walk Away Renee
Four Tops
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2:46 |
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Billboards Are Back
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1:25 | |
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Collecting the Samples
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1:16 | |
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Sorry Welby
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1:45 | |
| 16 |
Blessed Are
Joan Baez
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3:25 |
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Countermove
|
1:59 | |
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Can't Give Up Hope
|
0:33 | |
| 19 |
Buckskin Stallion Blues
Amy Annelle
|
3:21 |
About Carter Burwell
Probably one of a very few soundtrack composers to idolize Iggy Pop, Carter Burwell is best known for his work with the Coen brothers, having scored every one of their films through the year 2010. By turns haunting and dark or quirky and experimental, Burwell's eclectic music has graced films in a wide variety of genres, and he's used the occasional big-studio project to finance his work on a number of groundbreaking independent films. Born November 18, 1955 in New York, Burwell took piano lessons as a child and learned to play blues guitar as a teenager. He studied architecture and fine arts at Harvard, but wasn't considering music as a career; upon graduating, he first worked in a biology lab, then as an animator, while playing in punk bands by night for fun.
A mutual friend referred him to the Coen brothers, who were seeking a composer for their 1984 debut feature, Blood Simple. They all hit it off, and Burwell was employed for the Coens' next project, the kidnapping caper Raising Arizona (1987); Burwell blended samples with a variety of thematic source materials. The Coens' 1990 gangster film, Miller's Crossing, was Burwell's first fully orchestrated work, and he attracted more attention for 1991's groundbreaking Barton Fink; he composed only 20 bars of music, which were then treated with various sound effects and reshaped throughout the film by sound designer Skip Lievsay.
Burwell's workload increased steadily as the '90s progressed, and he began taking on more mainstream film projects: Doc Hollywood (1991), Wayne's World 2 (1993), and Airheads (1994), among others. He won wide acclaim for his work on 1995's Rob Roy, which kicked off the most prolific period of his career -- over 35 films in the next five years. Among the highlights were the thriller Conspiracy Theory (1997), The Jackal (1997), Gods and Monsters (1998), the fictionalized glam rock chronicle Velvet Goldmine (1998), Spike Jonze's bizarre Being John Malkovich (1999), and the Gulf War epic Three Kings (1999). In addition to his film-scoring activities, Burwell has also played accordion and synthesizer with eclectic new age artists like Gabrielle Roth and David Hykes' Harmonic Choir.
Burwell remained in demand through the 2000s and 2010s, reteaming with Jonze on the music for Adaptation and scoring several installments of the Twilight Saga movie series. In 2016, he earned his first Academy Award nomination for his score for the Todd Haynes-directed romantic drama Carol (2015). That year, he also reunited with the Coens for Hail, Caesar! In 2017, he composed music for Haynes' Wonderstruck and got his second Oscar nomination for his roots-imbued score for Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri. ~ Steve Huey
A mutual friend referred him to the Coen brothers, who were seeking a composer for their 1984 debut feature, Blood Simple. They all hit it off, and Burwell was employed for the Coens' next project, the kidnapping caper Raising Arizona (1987); Burwell blended samples with a variety of thematic source materials. The Coens' 1990 gangster film, Miller's Crossing, was Burwell's first fully orchestrated work, and he attracted more attention for 1991's groundbreaking Barton Fink; he composed only 20 bars of music, which were then treated with various sound effects and reshaped throughout the film by sound designer Skip Lievsay.
Burwell's workload increased steadily as the '90s progressed, and he began taking on more mainstream film projects: Doc Hollywood (1991), Wayne's World 2 (1993), and Airheads (1994), among others. He won wide acclaim for his work on 1995's Rob Roy, which kicked off the most prolific period of his career -- over 35 films in the next five years. Among the highlights were the thriller Conspiracy Theory (1997), The Jackal (1997), Gods and Monsters (1998), the fictionalized glam rock chronicle Velvet Goldmine (1998), Spike Jonze's bizarre Being John Malkovich (1999), and the Gulf War epic Three Kings (1999). In addition to his film-scoring activities, Burwell has also played accordion and synthesizer with eclectic new age artists like Gabrielle Roth and David Hykes' Harmonic Choir.
Burwell remained in demand through the 2000s and 2010s, reteaming with Jonze on the music for Adaptation and scoring several installments of the Twilight Saga movie series. In 2016, he earned his first Academy Award nomination for his score for the Todd Haynes-directed romantic drama Carol (2015). That year, he also reunited with the Coens for Hail, Caesar! In 2017, he composed music for Haynes' Wonderstruck and got his second Oscar nomination for his roots-imbued score for Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri. ~ Steve Huey
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- ORIGIN
- New York, NY
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- GENRE
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Soundtrack
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- BORN
- November 18, 1955
Songs
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The Wicked FleeTrue Grit (Soundtrack from the Motion Picture)
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Way Out ThereRaising Arizona (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
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Bella's Lullaby (Music from "Twilight")Global Stage Orchestra Performs Music from the Twilight Saga Movies: Twilight, New Moon, Eclipse, Breaking Dawn Parts 1 & 2
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PrologueIn Bruges
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SailingWhere the Wild Things Are (Motion Picture Score)
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Lost FurWhere the Wild Things Are (Motion Picture Soundtrack)
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Deguello de Crockett (Score)The Alamo (Original Soundtrack)
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River Crossing
True Grit (Soundtrack from the Motion Picture)
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Ride to Death
True Grit (Soundtrack from the Motion Picture)
Albums
Twilight (The Score)
2008
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, Pt. 2 (Original Motion Picture Score)
2012
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, Pt. 1 (The Score) [Music By Carter Burwell]
2011
True Grit (Soundtrack from the Motion Picture)
2010
The Blind Side (Music from the Motion Picture)
2010
