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"Spiritual" by Pat Matheny & Charlie Haden (The Dozy Embrace)

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SFEnnisSF:
  :D  :D   :D  :D

In the book, "Brokeback Mountain: Story To Screenplay", Annie Proulx said that she listened to the song "Spiritual" as performed by Charlie Haden and Pat Metheny to write the scene where Jack has almost fallen asleep standing up and Ennis comes behind him and sings to him. (AKA The Dozy Embrace)  :)

Ellemeno:
I love this, Eric, one of my favorites. 

SFEnnisSF:
Bumpin' this to tha top.

BTW, this has been added to the "Brokeback Mountain Radio" playlist.  :D

southendmd:
Heya Eric,

Here's another youtube video with "Spiritual" that's set to the dozy embrace scene in slow motion. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yi6i8bfwV-w

Here's what Annie said about it:

"The most difficult scene was the paragraph where, on the mountain, Ennis holds Jack and rocks back and forth, humming, the moment mixed with childhood loss and his refusal to admit he was holding a man. This paragraph took forever to get right, and I played Charlie Haden's and Pat Metheny's Spiritual, from their album Beyond the Missouri Sky (short stories) uncountable times, trying to get the words. I was trying to write the inchoate feelings of Jack and Ennis, the sad impossibility of their liaison, which for me was expressed in that music. To this day, I cannot hear that track without Jack and Ennis appearing before me."

Paul

tamarack:
There are several other songs from Beyond the Missouri Sky (short stories) that are really nice (although none are as good as Spiritual). Their names even seem to fit:

He's Gone Away
Message to a Friend
Moon Song
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
Our Spanish Love Song (well, maybe not so much the name...)
Two for the Road

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