BROKEN TRAIL

Label: Intrada Signature Edition ISE1016
Date: 2006
Tracks: 39
Time = 71:52

Original soundtrack from epic Emmy Award-winning Walter Hill mini-series for Sony Pictures Television, starring Robert Duvall, Thomas Haden Church, Greta Scacchi. Evocative, sensitive Emmy-nominated score by David Mansfield, Van Dyke Parks melds music both Chinese, American, spotlights unusual ethnic colors of shakuhachi flute, erhu, dizi, qudi, xun, mandolin with western colors of banjo, hammer dulcimer, cello, violin, piano, percussion. Detailed recording by Daegal Bennett, Matt Cartsonis brings everything alive. Entire album supervised, produced by David Mansfield & Van Dyke Parks. Intrada Signature Edition limited to 1000 copies!

01. Prologue: Chinatown (3:15) 02. Ritter Arrives; Branding and Roping (3:22) 03. The Drive (2:26) 04. Cross River (0:58) 05. Go to Town (1:17) 06. Hard Times (0:54) 07. Spiking the Whiskey; Clouds (2:04) 08. At the Saloon (1:33) 09. Tom Rides; Tracking the Thief (2:34) 10. Hung Man; Chinese Camp (2:52) 11. Funeral (1:19) 12. Gold Dust Town (1:10) 13. Ed Bywater (0:53) 14. Leavin’ Cheyenne (1:21) 15. Nola (0:34) 16. Shootout; Gathering the Bodies (2:52) 17. Da Yue (2:07) 18. Taking the Girls to Town (1:06) 19. Tie Him Up (2:35) 20. Nervous Nola; Attempted Rape (4:12)

21. Maybe a Tuba (0:50) 22. Ed Finds Dink; Dink’s Death (2:55) 23. Wanna Go Dancin’? (2:44) 24. Romantic (0:36) 25. Second Funeral (1:25) 26. Old and In the Way (2:15) 27. Ed’s Gang Rides (1:14) 28. The Leading Man (1:55) 29. The Indians Leave (1:03) 30. Up the Hill; The Horses Are Corraled (2:39) 31. Skeeters (3:07) 32. Croquet; Prarie Schooner (1:27) 33. Ed’s Hostages (0:51) 34. End of the Trail (1:24) 35. The Final Shootout (2:19) 36. Quiet Western Front (1:03) 37. Sun Fu Stays (0:41) 38. Rapture (0:54) 39. Nola’s Letter; Epilogue (1:51)