Grand Theft Parsons: Music from & inspired by the motion picture

There was no real reason to buy this cd except that I needed to hear Gillian Welch sing "Hickory Wind", but as far as reasons go, that's a pretty good one; to be honest, it's not as great as I'd anticipated, but she puts her usual understatedly gorgeous vocal in, and the echoey, windy humming in the background gives it a different complexion from both the original and Welch's usual metier, and all told I quite like it. The rest of the cd's made up of a couple of classics as done by Gram himself (including the Flying Burrito Brothers' version of "Wild Horses"), a bunch of covers of his songs by contemporary artists (most notably Wilco's "One Hundred Years From Now"), some soundtrack/score stuff composed by Richard G Mitchell in the americana style (with hints of a Morricone influence), and an odd assortment of other cuts (Primal Scream's "Movin' On Up" is a weird one - the only connection to Parsons that I can figure out is that it's a drug song - but presumably it makes more sense in the context of the film). All up, nice but not cosmically so.