Demme Interview

I smiled at this shout-out to Dan Bern in Richard Lieby's interview with Jonathan Demme in the Washington Post this morning:

You've always had great music in your movies. Name some songs on your iPod "most played" list.

Alejandro Escovedo's "Gravity/Falling Down Again." He was one of my composers on "Jimmy Carter Man From Plains." He's a Texas genius. I'm listening to Neil Young's new record like crazy. He's got an 18-minute song on it, "Ordinary People," and it's a masterwork. Emmylou Harris is in constant rotation on my iPod. Sister Carol East -- she had a pretty big part in "Something Wild," and was also in "Married to the Mob." Have you heard TV on the Radio? The lead singer, Tunde Adebimpe, plays the groom in the movie I'm doing now. Scribble down another name for me: Dan Bern. "Breathe." He wrote the "Ballad of Jimmy Carter" for the movie. There's another title of his, please listen to it: "Jerusalem." Then you can turn your kids on to these songs.

The whole interview is on the Washington Post website.

Walk Hard Soundtrack

(photo from fanpop.com. thanks to JBJ for pointing me towards it some time ago.)

The Playlist has the track listing for the Walk Hard soundtrack, scheduled for release December 4:

Viola and Bern wrote the brunt of the film's songs. Viola contributed "Big Daddy," "A Life Without You is Like No Life At All," and "Darling" (the last co-written with John C. Reilly), while Bern wrote "There’s A Change A’ Happenin’," "Hole in My Pants," "Farmer Glickstein," "Hey Mr. Old Guy," and "Royal Jelly." The duo shared songwriting duties on "Dear Mr. President" and the movie’s finale, "Beautiful Ride."

Bern's got a post-Torre bone to pick with the Yankees. ha.

UPDATE: Just came across a new video posted on YouTube, DB playing "Jerusalem" in Portland, October 2004:

Video, New Shows

New shows, wrong coast! November 27 and 28 at the Crepe Place in Santa Cruz.

I came across this video of God Said No (from Germany?) the other day:

Dan Bern 2007 Solingen

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And Judd Apatow, Jake Kasdan and John C. Reilly talk Walk Hard.

ADD Jane

This very adorable cartoon, A.D.D. Jane, uses "Jane" over the credits at the end. Cute!

There's an update on all things Walk Hard at The Playlist.

Man from Plains

That's some good old time country music there.