Crossroads: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

This soundtrack is an excellent display of Ry Cooders considerable talents. But to own the final guitar showdown between Cooder and Steve Vai, purchase Vai's "The Elusive Light and Sound Volume 1" to hear one of the greatest examples of blues and rock guitar.

Good sountrack, and while I think that the idea was to lean towards blues on this release, some of the best music from the movie isn't on this release. To get that you need the movie DVD, and though I have no complaints in seeing the movie to get hear these tracks, it would have been nice to have them included on the soundtrack.

I give this one 4 stars for the artists effort in reaching the ears and grabbing the attention of someone like me who is not "Blues" literate (in other words I don't know who the top Blues artists are or were).But, I do know what I like. To say that I just like this soundtrack is an understatement;I love it !...Whether the music comes from Johnson or Cooder, all artists have done an incredible labor of love in giving us music that is so timeless and without any "artificial" synthesized sound.While it does not contain the complete soundtrack, it still conveys the very essence of the film; aside from the supernatural aspect of the film (the devil), it's main supernatural ingredient is about the blues !...Another highly recommended Ry Cooder project is the Buena Vista Social Club which brings the beauty and power of Cuban-jazz music and musicians...