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Upon hearing the debut album by alt-country singer-songwriter Jim White, The Mysterious Tale of How I Shouted Wrong-Eyed Jesus, British commercials director Andrew Douglas contacted Jim and the two set out to make Douglas’ feature film debut by exploring the deep South.
"The resulting documentary," says Variety, "reps a very European look at quintessentially American milieu, a marriage exemplified by its cool, painterly visuals and southern gothic cast of characters." Searching For The Wrong-Eyed Jesus is a thought-provoking road trip through the American south - a world of churches; prison; coalmines; truck stops; juke joints; swamps; and mountains.
Along the way the viewer encounters various musicians, including the Handsome Family, Johnny Dowd, 16 Horsepower and David Johansen; old time banjo player Lee Sexton, rockabilly and mountain Gospel churches and novelist Harry Crews telling grisly stories down a dirt track.
The film is a collage of stories and testimonies, almost invariably of sudden death, sin or redemption: heaven or hell, with no middle ground. And all the while, a strange southern Jesus looms in the background. The music in Searching For The Wrong-Eyed Jesus adds a haunting melody to the already unforgettable imagery on screen. This collection of songs is a wonderfully eclectic soundtrack of blues, Gospel, and "sadcore" indie tunes.
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Music from Searching for the Wrong-Eyed Jesus [Soundtrack]
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ASIN: B0009I7OCU Release Date: 2005-06-07 |
Tracks:
- Stories - Harry Crews
- Still Waters - Jim White
- My Sisters Tiny Hands - Handsome Family
- Crossbone Styles - Cat Power
- Last Kind Deal - David Johansen
- The Wound That Never Heals - Jim White
- Wayfaring Stranger - David Eugene Edwards
- Small Tow N - Mayor
- Black Soul Choir - Sixteen Horsepower
- Little Maggie - Lee Sexton
- First There Was - Johnny Dowd With Maggie Brown
- Coo Coo Bird - Clarence Ashley And Doc Watson
- Amazing Grace - Melissa Swingle
- Christmas Day - Jim White
- Essential Truth - Jim White
Album Description
Upon hearing the debut album by alt-country singer-songwriter Jim White, The Mysterious Tale of How I Shouted Wrong-Eyed Jesus, British commercials director Andrew Douglas contacted Jim and the two set out to make Douglas' feature film debut by exploring the deep South."The resulting documentary," says Variety, "reps a very European look at quintessentially American milieu, a marriage exemplified by its cool, painterly visuals and southern gothic cast of characters." Searching For The Wrong-Eyed Jesus is a thought-provoking road trip through the American south - a world of churches; prison; coalmines; truck stops; juke joints; swamps; and mountains.
Along the way the viewer encounters various musicians, including the Handsome Family, Johnny Dowd, 16 Horsepower and David Johansen; old time banjo player Lee Sexton, rockabilly and mountain Gospel churches and novelist Harry Crews telling grisly stories down a dirt track.
The film is a collage of stories and testimonies, almost invariably of sudden death, sin or redemption: heaven or hell, with no middle ground. And all the while, a strange southern Jesus looms in the background. The music in Searching For The Wrong-Eyed Jesus adds a haunting melody to the already unforgettable imagery on screen. This collection of songs is a wonderfully eclectic soundtrack of blues, Gospel, and "sadcore" indie tunes.
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I guess I'll have to wait for the DVD.......2005-10-26
Soundtrack inspired by an album inspired by the South.......2005-06-09
For those who cross referenced here from the "Oh Brother" soundtrack, I'm here to tell you "Searching for..." is just as good, and probably better. The story of "Oh Brother" is supposedly derived from Homer's Odyssey, and contains the narrative of three escaped convicts searching for a buried treasure.
While "Searching for the Wrong Eyed Jesus" is a documentary, and "Oh Brother" is based on a storyline, what the two movies have in common other than a strikingly similar musical thread tying them together, is that each probes and explores the underbelly of the south. If I recall correctly, the convicts in "Oh Brother" never do find the treasure, but the treasure that both of these films reveal, are the secrets of the deep south.
Visitors to, and even residents of the deep south, might not notice what lies just beneath the surface while traveling from one town to another. After all, at first glance, other than the ubiquitous kudzu and Waffle Houses, things aren't so different from anywhere else in America, with Wal Marts, strip malls and delapidated shopping centers dominating the landscape.
"Oh Brother" is set in the 1930's. In "Searching for the Wrong Eyed Jesus", Jim White documents how little has changed in the last 60 or 70 years, if you're just willing to come with him, and take a peek beneath the surface.
The first thing that strikes you when listening to "Searching..." is the intense sound of the birdlife from the south that ties the soundtrack together. It's almost like being in a jungle of South America if you listen for it closely, but most people who live in, or visit the deep south, tune this out on a daily basis. The sound of this birdlife can actually be quite eerie once you start hearing it, not only on the soundtrack, but as you move about in the south. The inclusion of it throughout the soundtrack could easily symbolize the eerieness of the poverty and despair, the pentecostal religion, sin, and the search for redemption among many people in the south. While "Oh Brother" has a lot of humorous moments in it, both movies search for, and find, then convey, the stark and melancholic beauty of the south.
For those who may not be familiar with Jim White, several of his songs are included on this soundtrack, and all of his albums are well worth exploring. It was his first record, "The mysterious tale of how I shouted 'the wrong eyed Jesus!'" that inspired the documentary in the first place, and Andrew Douglas couldn't have picked a better narrator.
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