True Blood: Music from the HBO Original Series, Vol. 3 | ||||
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Soundtrack album by various artists | ||||
Released | September 6, 2011 (standard) September 13, 2011 (deluxe) | |||
Genre | ||||
Length | 49:58 (standard) 62:34 (deluxe) | |||
Label | WaterTower Music | |||
True Blood soundtracks chronology | ||||
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True Blood: Music from the HBO Original Series, Vol. 3 is the soundtrack featuring songs from the third and fourth season of the HBO television series True Blood. The album was released through WaterTower Music on September 6, 2011, four days before the season finale and was accompanied by a deluxe edition that featured four additional songs, released a week later.
Like the predecessors, the songs from the fourth season ranged from covers of classic songs from the 1950s to contemporary hits. [1] It was performed by Neko Case, Nick Cave, Nick Lowe, Gil Scott-Heron, Karen Elson, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Jakob Dylan, Massive Attack, The Heavy amongst several others. [2] [3]
One of the prominent covers being the Zombies' 1964 single "She's Not There" by Neko Case and Nick Cave. [4] [5] The series' music supervisor Gary Calamar initially revealed that the showrunner Alan Ball had planned for using the Santana version of the song, but instead planned to re-record a new version of it, and after sorting through multiple singers, they zeroed on Cave and Case to record the cover. Both of them recorded the song at their respective studios in Seattle and Los Angeles. [2] The song was released as a single on June 26, 2011 after the premiere of the first episode of the fourth season. [5]
Scott-Heron's version of "Me and the Devil" was used in this season. Calamar and his music team found difficult to get approval from his estate for the use of song, after his death in May 2011, but eventually permitted and the song was featured in the soundtrack. [2] The album, however, did not feature Taylor Swift's song "Haunted" which was played in a specific sex scene between the lead characters. [6] [7]
No. | Title | Artist(s) | Length |
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1. | "Season Of The Witch" | Karen Elson | 3:25 |
2. | "Me and the Devil" | Gil Scott-Heron | 3:35 |
3. | "Te Ni Nee Ni Nu" | Slim Harpo | 2:05 |
4. | "She's Not There" | Neko Case | 2:29 |
5. | "Hitting the Ground" | PJ Harvey | 2:59 |
6. | "Spellbound" | Siouxsie and the Banshees | 3:19 |
7. | "9 Crimes" | Damien Rice | 3:11 |
8. | "Cold Grey Light of Dawn" | Nick Lowe | 2:56 |
9. | "Hell's Bells" | Cary Ann Hearst | 3:36 |
10. | "Gonna Be A Darkness" | Jakob Dylan | 4:50 |
11. | "What You Do To Me" | Blakroc | 5:07 |
12. | "Paradise Circus" | Massive Attack | 4:59 |
13. | "And When I Die" | The Heavy | 4:43 |
14. | "Bad Things" | Jace Everett | 2:44 |
Total length: | 49:58 |
No. | Title | Artist(s) | Length |
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15. | "Bad Things" | Black Rebel Motorcycle Club | 3:35 |
16. | "She's Not There" | Dick Isreal And The Soothsayer | 2:40 |
17. | "She's Not There" | L'Avventura | 3:21 |
18. | "She's Not There" | Paper Pilots | 3:04 |
Total length: | 62:34 |
Heather Phares of AllMusic rated three-and-a-half out of five and wrote "While True Blood: Music from the HBO Original Series, Vol. 3 doesn't feel as hand-picked as the first volume of music from the show, there are enough bright spots that die-hard fangbangers can buy this without feeling too suckered." [8]
Chart (2011) | Peak position |
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US Billboard 200 [9] | 191 |
US Top Soundtracks ( Billboard ) [10] | 11 |
Year | Ceremony | Category | Nominee | Result | Ref |
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2012 | Grammy Awards | Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media | True Blood: Music from the HBO Original Series, Vol. 3 | Nominated | [11] [12] |
Nicholas Edward Cave is an Australian musician, writer and actor. Known for his baritone voice and for fronting the rock band Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Cave's music is characterised by emotional intensity, a wide variety of influences and lyrical obsessions with death, religion, love, and violence.
Lucinda Gayl Williams[a] is an American singer-songwriter and a solo guitarist. She recorded her first two albums, Ramblin' on My Mind (1979) and Happy Woman Blues (1980), in a traditional country and blues style that received critical praise but little public or radio attention. In 1988, she released her third album, Lucinda Williams, to widespread critical acclaim. Regarded as "an Americana classic", the album also features "Passionate Kisses", a song later recorded by Mary Chapin Carpenter for her 1992 album Come On Come On, which garnered Williams her first Grammy Award for Best Country Song in 1994. Known for working slowly, Williams released her fourth album, Sweet Old World, four years later in 1992. Sweet Old World was met with further critical acclaim, and was voted the 11th best album of 1992 in The Village Voice's Pazz & Jop, an annual poll of prominent music critics. Robert Christgau, the poll's creator, ranked it 6th on his own year-end list, later writing that the album, as well as Lucinda Williams, were "gorgeous, flawless, brilliant".
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Songs in the Key of X: Music from and Inspired by the X-Files is a 1996 compilation album released in association with the American science fiction television series The X-Files. The album contained a mixture of songs that were either featured in the series, or shared thematic elements with it. Songs in the Key of X peaked at No. 47 on the Billboard 200 album sales chart after its release. The album's title is a play on the title of Stevie Wonder's 1976 album Songs in the Key of Life.
Mavis Staples is an American rhythm and blues and gospel singer and civil rights activist. She rose to fame as a member of her family's band The Staple Singers, of which she is the last surviving member. During her time in the group, she recorded the hit singles "I'll Take You There" and "Let's Do It Again". In 1969, Staples released her self-titled debut solo album.
Jace Everett Beasley is an American singer-songwriter and musician. Signed to Epic Records in 2005, he released his debut single "That's the Kind of Love I'm In" in 2005, which peaked at No. 52 on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts, and was the first single from his self-titled debut album. He also co-wrote Josh Turner's Number One single "Your Man". His song "Bad Things" is the theme for the HBO series True Blood and peaked No. 2 in Norway in 2009. In the same year, he released his third album, Red Revelations, under the Weston Boys label that peaked No. 12 in Norway.
American Made Music to Strip By is the first remix album released by American musician Rob Zombie. The album was released through Geffen Records on October 26, 1999. It is composed entirely of remixes of songs taken from Zombie's debut studio album, Hellbilly Deluxe (1998). Zombie worked with a number of musicians and producers to create updated versions of the songs, including Charlie Clouser, who had previously worked with Zombie on his debut solo effort. Ten of the original album's songs have been remixed, excluding three instrumental interludes. Two of the remixes featured on American Made Music to Strip By had previously been released on promotional discs for "Dragula" (1998) and "Living Dead Girl" (1999).
"She's Not There" is the debut single by the English rock band the Zombies, written by keyboardist Rod Argent. It reached No. 12 in the UK Singles Chart in September 1964, and No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the United States at the beginning of December 1964. In Canada, it reached No. 2.
C. C. Adcock is an American singer, songwriter, guitarist and blues rock musician, noted for his cajun, zydeco, electric blues and swamp pop-influenced sound and for his efforts to preserve and promote swamp pop music. He is also a Grammy-nominated music and film producer and film and TV composer.
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Gary Calamar is an American film and television music supervisor, who has been nominated five times for Grammy Awards. Calamar's notable credits include The Man In The High Castle,Six Feet Under, True Blood, House, Weeds, Entourage, Dexter, and Varsity Blues. He also hosted a long-running program on the influential radio station KCRW in Santa Monica, before moving to 88.5 KCSN in September 2018. Calamar is also a songwriter and recording artist.
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True Blood: Music from the HBO Original Series, Vol. 2 is the soundtrack featuring songs from the second season of the HBO television series True Blood. The album was released through Elektra Records on May 25, 2010, in conjunction with the third season's premiere in June.
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