what genre is the ending credit song in the generals daughter?

March 27, 2009 10:49 PM

what genre of music is the song from the generals daughter during the credits at the end?

at the end of the generals daughter with john travolta, there is a song during the credits, i cant find it on any soundtrack or google. what is the song and what is the genre? it almost sounds like tribal or folk... i just picture people/creatures doing a ceremonious dance around their captives...i dont know but it gives me the creeps, im just curious

posted by kgreerRN to Media & Arts (8 answers total)

This website says it's "Mighty Fine Road." I haven't heard it to be able to say the genre, but from your description of its sound, it seems like it would fall under "roots."
posted by metalheart at 10:53 PM on March 27, 2009

Response by poster: great website, but i youtube'd it and its not the same song... ill keep looking thanks
posted by kgreerRN at 10:58 PM on March 27, 2009

Samples of the OST by Carter Burwell are listenable at AllMusic. The score is described as "mostly slow strings and dark brass", and the album (but not necessarily the film itself) is filled out with "Negro Spirituals ... remixed with modern synthesizer beds".
posted by dhartung at 11:30 PM on March 27, 2009

Whoops, posted instead of previewed. Continuing: and if you like that, that describes numerous songs on Moby's album Play, which is based on the Alan Lomax Collection of Southern folk music.
posted by dhartung at 11:33 PM on March 27, 2009

That's a great soundtrack. I think it's a two song end credit - these aren't the right versions, but it will help you see if it's the right music.

"Early in the Mornin'"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXANnahUVjU

and

"O Fortuna"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qV9jAjQrMyY
posted by Gerard Sorme at 1:59 AM on March 28, 2009

Response by poster: thanks to both the websites i found it! "she began to lie" christina shipp and katherine shipp
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-HIARI0Pz0
http://www.answers.com/topic/katherine-shipp
their calling it 30's folk, with " rope-skipping rhymes and rhythms that still have an intimate and haunting power all these years later, particularly the eerie and mysterious fragment called "Sea Lion Woman"
im just glad im not the only one!!!
thanks all for a successful 1st post!
posted by kgreerRN at 8:12 AM on March 28, 2009

Now I'm interested and need to listen to this piece. Also, please please please punctuate anything you write on metafilter with capitals and so on. Eventually someone else will mention it and might not be tactful so I may as well say it now.
posted by variella at 10:31 AM on March 28, 2009

Response by poster: Thanks for the tip!
posted by kgreerRN at 10:55 AM on March 28, 2009