Cadillac Records (Official Soundtrack)
- Title: Cadillac Records (Official Soundtrack)
The new film Cadillac Records is based on real events of the music scene in the 1950’s and 60’s involving the influential Chicago label Chess Records. Hitting stores just days before the film, the soundtrack is available in both as single-disc and a deluxe two-disc version.
Included on both are Beyonce singing “At Last,” “Once in a Lifetime,” and “I’d Rather Go Blind” (the first of which is by far the best of the three recordings). Jeffrey Wright belts out “I’m a Man” and “I’m Your Hoochie Coochie Man,” and Mos Def sings “Nadine” and let’s us know there’s “No Particular Place to Go.” Rounding out the collection are “6 O’Clock Blues” sung by Solange, Columbus Short singing “My Babe,” and “The Sound” by Mary Mary.
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Australia is a mess; it’s at times a pretty mess, but a mess nonetheless. The seemingly endless tale of a dover and an aristocrat, and a Aboriginal child, and an evil cattle baron and his evil assistant, of cattle drives and social conventions, and so much more, would have been better suited for a mini-series than a single feature film. Instead we get at least 12 hours of plot cut together into a 3 hour movie. The result is less than spectacular.