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Phillip Dampier:
After sampling a ton of the music channels on XM, I suspect XM13 - Willie's Place, probably best represents the music that Jack and Ennis would have spent listening to over their history together.  It's considered a honky-tonk of sorts, with a lot of western swing and old school country music, and it usually has a live announcer as well (recognized because during a technical fault last Friday, the announcer came on to apologize for it and was manually playing CDs until they got the computerized music system working again).

Of course, XM and Sirius have a range of country music outlets, but most are playing songs recorded much more recently.

Brokeback Mountain made the life changing event in me of actually tolerating country and western music, something I dismissed before the movie.  These kinds of little things are what still touch me, some eight months post-Brokeback Mountain.  And that is a sign of the seed that was planted by the film that changed me, not just because of the story up on the screen, but because it gave me a renewed sense of respect for the culture of the west, and a new interest in learning more about it.

It will be things like this that will likely carry with me for the rest of my life - a sense of permanent change brought about by an independently produced and released film.

2robots4u:
I actually hated country music as a kid, you know, Minnie Pearl, George Jones, Merle Haggard (this is all you could get in remote NC in late 1940s).  Then when it became know as "country western" I hated it even more (Randy Travis sounds like chalk on a blackboard).  Then along came Emmie Lou Harris and I started liking it again.  I have always listed to Patsy Cline, Willie Nelson and the like, but since BBM I find myself searching out the newer crop of singers, and always falling back on Emmie, Willie, and Reba.

Can anyone tell me the type of music Rufus Wainwright sings?  I like "Maker Makes" but did not want to invest in a CD that may never be played again.  Can anyone recommend one by title?  Would appreciate it, and thanks.
     

bbm_stitchbuffyfan:
The only other Rufus song I know is called "Complainte de la Butte" and it is a partly-English/partly-French song featured on the Moulin Rouge soundtrack. I think it's a pretty good song; it is slow and pianic like "Maker Makes" except "MM" is a much more touching and beautiful song, I think.

I never used to like country all that much either. Now, I really like it and the somber, well-performed country songs always make me think of Brokeback.

Rutella:
My husband gave me a huge love of some country stuff, especially alt-country, and stuff like Emmylou Harris, Gram Parsons, as well as good 'ol Willie Nelson and Glen Campbell etc. I also love Rufus Wainwright, especially his album 'Want One'. My favourite songs on it are 'Oh what a world', 'I don't know what it is' 'Movies of myself' 'Go or go ahead' '14th street' and '11:11' and I would recommend them but the whole album rocks. The BBM soundtrack got me into Teddy Thompson as well who I hadn't heard before and I love his stuff.

mvansand76:
I like to think that Jack and Ennis listened to Alison Krauss. She should've done the WHOLE soundtrack for the movie, by the way. She really did spark my interest in bluegrass/country and she is all over my iPod... I also like some of the Dixie Chick's songs, such as their rendition of Landslide and More Love. But Alison Krauss and Emmylou Harris are my favorites. Years and years and years ago I heard Emmylou Harris sing her version of the Beatles song "For no one" at the Atlantic Sessions on the BBC and since then I am also hooked on her voice.  :)   

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