Although it is not strictly a soundtrack -- only four songs on the album were featured in the Tim Robbins film -- Dead Man Walking is nevertheless a fascinating listen. Robbins played a rough cut of his film to a number of musicians, asking them to contribute a song if they were intrigued by the story of a condemned prisoner on death row. Nearly every musician he approached contributed a song, and they are collected on Dead Man Walking. The star power of the album is impressive -- Bruce Springsteen, Johnny Cash, Tom Waits, Eddie Vedder, Lyle Lovett, Patti Smith, Suzanne Vega, Mary Chapin Carpenter, and Steve Earle all are featured on the record -- but names alone wouldn't make Dead Man Walking a musical success. Fortunately, most of the musicians contribute first-rate material, such as Springsteen's spare, haunting title track, Waits' gallows humor, and the bizarrely appropriate teaming of Vedder and Nusrat Fateh Ali Kahn. Not only is the album an unusually constructed soundtrack, it is an unusually effective one, boasting almost no dead weight. It's one of those rare soundtracks that is as compelling as the film itself.
Dead Man Walkin' - Bruce Springsteen
In Your Mind - Johnny Cash
Woman on the Tier (I'll See You Through) - Suzanne Vega
Promises - Lyle Lovett
The Face of Love - Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan / Eddie Vedder
The Fall of Troy - Tom Waits
Quality of Mercy - Michelle Shocked
Dead Man Walking (A Dream Like This) - Mary Chapin Carpenter
Walk Away - Tom Waits
Ellis Unit One - Steve Earle
Walkin Blind - Patti Smith
The Long Road - Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan / Eddie Vedder
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