Crazy Heart has some great songs, like the “The Weary Kind”

I saw Crazy Heart yesterday and enjoyed it quite a bit. Yea, it dragged in places but the songs playin` in the background were its saving grace. And Robert Duvall helped it along as Wayne Cramer (a floundering bar owner), a good friend of Bad Blake (Jeff Bridges), who`s pretty much washed-up himself. But Wayne provides needed moral backbone for the alcoholic, downwardly mobile country singer/songwriter.

T-Bone Burnett was the producer and composer of the music for Crazy Heart, which had several authentic-style, 1970s progressive country songs in it. The two that I can still remember are Fallin` and Flyin` and The Weary Kind. The Weary Kind (written by T-Bone Burnett and Ryan Bingham), the theme song of the movie, won an award yesterday at The Golden Globes for Best Original Song. I don`t believe the soundtrack has been released yet (hope it comes out soon), but you can hear a bit of it on the trailer.

Okay, so the scene where Bad Blake sleeps with a whiskey bottle is a little over the top.  But the gig at the Bowling Alley was my favorite scene. And the scenes in Houston were nice too, maybe because I`m familiar with the city. The Bad Blake character is suppose to be a hybrid of some of our legends of the 1970s Outlaw Country scene. Kris Kristofferson and Waylon Jennings are the two, I`ve heard, that were used as role models. The screenplay comes from a 1987 novel by Thomas Cobb. (sources-Wiki and my own viewing) *(photo of Jeff & Maggie is by Lorey Sebastian`s-AP)  P.S. I forgot to mention that Maggie Gyllenhaal (Jean Craddock) is fantastic as a music reporter and new love of Bad Blake.

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