Road to Perdition (soundtrack)

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Road to Perdition
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ReleasedJune 25, 2002
Genre Soundtrack, Instrumental
Length1:10:11
Label Decca
Thomas Newman chronology
The Salton Sea
(2002)
Road to Perdition
(2002)
White Oleander
(2002)
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Road to Perdition is the soundtrack, on the Decca Records label, of the 2002 Academy Award-winning and Golden Globe-nominated film Road to Perdition starring Tyler Hoechlin, Tom Hanks, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Jude Law, Daniel Craig and Paul Newman. The original score was composed by Thomas Newman. [4]

The album was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Score, but lost to the score of Frida .

Track listing

  1. "Rock Island, 1931" – 3:22
  2. "Wake" – 1:55
  3. "Just the Feller" – 2:44
  4. "Mr. Rance" – 1:38
  5. "Bit Borrowers" – 2:25
  6. "Murder (in Four Parts)" – 7:54
  7. "Road to Chicago" – 3:06
  8. "Reading Room" – 1:25
  9. "Someday Sweetheart" – 3:06
    • Performed by The Charleston Chasers
  10. "Meet Maguire" – 1:44
  11. "Blood Dog" – 1:06
  12. "Finn McGovern" – 2:11
  13. "The Farm" – 2:09
  14. "Dirty Money" – 3:10
  15. "Rain Hammers" – 2:41
  16. "A Blind Eye" – 2:27
  17. "Nothing to Trade" – 2:25
  18. "Queer Notions" – 2:46
  19. "Virgin Mary" – 1:34
  20. "Shoot the Dead" – 2:25
  21. "Grave Drive" – 1:20
  22. "Cathedral" – 2:40
    • Contains a Vocal Sample from the song "Alma Redemptoris Mater", Performed by Choir of King's College
  23. "There'll Be Some Changes Made" – 2:59
  24. "Ghosts" – 3:40
  25. "Lexington Hotel, Room 1432" – 1:45
  26. "Road to Perdition" – 3:55
  27. "Perdition – Piano Duet" – 1:39

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