I loved the original version, but this remake by Eric Burdon with Jenny Lewis of the song “Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood” is even better. The song is featured on True Blood’s Music from the HBO Original Series Vol. 4 which will be available everywhere on May 28, 2013.
You can purchase the CD at on iTunes here: http://bit.ly/17QKtWf or at Amazon.
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The next soundtrack volume of True Blood music will be out just in time to listen to before Season 6 begins on June 16.
The songs included are those used in True Blood, and are hand picked by Music Supervisor, Gary Calamar. It will be available for purchase on May 28.
While there have been 5 seasons of True Blood, this is only the fourth volume of music to be released for the show and includes songs from both Seasons 5 and 6.
Iggy Pop, My Morning Jacket and the Flaming Lips will quench their thirst for blood on this next installment and also features Alabama Shakes, Los Lobos, Best Coast’s Bethany Cosentino, Eric Burdon and more.
Alabama Shakes dust off the Boys and Girls bonus track “Pocket Change,” and Burdon and Rilo Kiley singer Jenny Lewis add their duet “Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood.” Iggy Pop and Cosentino team for “Let’s Boot and Rally,” which was released last year and was written specifically for the show, and My Morning Jacket add “Turn Turn Turn.” The Flaming Lips dig up their old outtake “Your Face Can Tell the Future.”
Here’s a better photo that includes the back of the CD:
Here’s the full tracklist:
1) “Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood” – Eric Burdon with Jenny Lewis – title of Season 6, episode 1
2) “Let’s Boot and Rally” – Iggy Pop with Bethany Cosentino – episode 5.05
3) “What Makes a Good Man?” – the Heavy – episode 5.11
4) “Smokestack Lightnin’” – Howlin’ Wolf – episode 5.08
5) “Pocket Change” – Alabama Shakes - episode 5.04
6) “Authority Song” – Bosco Delrey – episode 5.02
7) “Turn Turn Turn” – My Morning Jacket – episode 5.01
8) “Your Face Can Tell the Future” – the Flaming Lips
9) ”The Sun” – the Naked and Famous
10) “Undertow” – Warpaint - episode 5.05
11) “I Wanna Be Your Man” – Mobley
12) “(She’s a) Wanderer” – Deap Vally
13) “Whatever I Am, You Made Me” – Koko Taylor – episode 5.03
14) “We’ll Meet Again” – Los Lobos – episode 5.02
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A chance for the Dutch Truebies to get a taste of True Blood in Amsterdam. Gary Calamar, True Blood’s Music Supervisor, has been confirmed to speak at the Buma Music In Motion conference that will take place on May 16th at Pakhuis Willem De Zwijger in Amsterdam.
The man who chooses all the music for True Blood, it’s Music Supervisor Gary Calamar moves his intimate Mimosa Music Series out of his Laurel Canyon living room and into North Hollywood’s beautiful Federal Bar. Come on down for a bagel, mimosa and some great music. So, if you are in Los Angeles this weekend go on over and listen to some great tunes!
The event takes place Sunday December 2 at the Federal Bar and promises a delicious brunch with musical guests LoveyDove (11am) and Kate Earl (12:30). all-ages are welcome!
source: Mimosa Music on facebook.com
This season of True Blood has given us some great music, and most of it has been chosen by it’s Music Supervisor, Gary Calamar. In the two audio interviews with the Latest From The Greatest we can hear how Gary choses the songss and how there are times when he doesn’t. The interviewers also play two of the songs featured on the show, so it’s worth a listen.
source: The Latest From The Greatest on YouTube
I just finished posting the song choices for this week’s episode of True Blood and just then, an email arrived in my inbox with a link to an article about the songs discussing them in detail. Byron Ward of CBS Local Digital Media talked to our good friend Gary Calamar about the choices for this episode titled “Gone, Gone, Gone.” See below:
The episode, titled “Gone, Gone, Gone,” led fans to expect to hear some variation on the Everly Brothers song of the same name (which was recently covered by Robert Plant and Alison Krauss on their Grammy-winning Raising Sand album). Instead, True Blood used the Carl Perkins song “Gone, Gone, Gone” beneath an emotional scene where Hoyt Fortenberry (Jim Parrack) asks his ex-girlfriend, vampire Jessica Hamby (Deborah Ann Woll) to wipe his memory of her (she cheated on him with his best friend, in a twist fit for a blues or country music classic). In the background, “Gone, Gone, Gone” played, with its lyrics, “Well that must be my girl, yours don’t look like that.”
True Blood’s episode titles are generally inspired by songs that play during the end credits. However, instead of “Gone, Gone, Gone” the episode closed with John Lee Hooker’s “You Know, I Know.” The lyrics: “You know, I know, we’re gonna get together one day,” leading fans to wonder which characters inspired the song choice.
CBS Local spoke with True Blood Music Supervisor Gary Calamar, who noted that both song choices came from the episode’s writer, Alex Woo. ”I had suggested that we do a new cover on ‘Gone, Gone, Gone’ but Alex loves the Carl Perkins version on Sun Records, so we went with that.”
True Blood showed their sense of humor in another scene where vampires Russell Edgington (Denis O’Hare) and Steve Newlin (Michael McMillian) went to a fraternity party where they “drained” the attendees. As the two slow danced together while surrounded by bloody bodies, Katy Perry’s upbeat “Teenage Dream” was playing. The lyrics “We can dance until we die, you and I, we’ll be young together,” are accurate, provided that neither character meets the “true death.”
Calamar says that the True Blood team had a good time debating what song would work best: “We wanted a big, recognizable pop song that would show the twisted romance of Russell and Newlin… and would also work ironically against the drained college students. We tried Rihanna, Far East Movement, Maroon 5… but ‘Teenage Dream’ worked the best on all levels.”
“Plus,” he confesses, “Katy Perry is one of my guilty pleasures.” And echoing what is on the minds of many fans of the pop singer, or those who frequent gossip websites, ”[I'm] hoping she moves past the John Mayer fling quickly.”
Next week’s episode (the second to last of the season) is titled “Sunset.” The Moody Blues, Roy Orbison and Stevie Wonder have all recorded songs with that title, so it’s anyone’s guess what song will actually be used.
– Brian Ives, CBS Local
As all True Blood fans know, each episode is always titled after a song chosen by it’s music supervisor Gary Calamar in consultation with the writers. We enjoy trying to guess which song it will be when the title for each episode is revealed during the filming of each season.
For episode 8, Somebody That I Used To Know”, Shadaliza was very sure that it would the song by Gotye. She was so sure, in fact, that she put it in print prior to the episode airing. I told her that although that could be it, I knew that Gary Calamar wouldn’t pick such a popular tune for True Blood. And, in our music speculation for this episode, we posted the Goyte song, but we also posted the one that was used by Elliott Smith, thanks for our friend from our affiliated site Skarsgårdnews.com.
However now, Shadaliza is somewhat vindicated because we learn below that the version she chose, was the original song that was intended for the episode. Read about it below:
So, we agree that the latest episode’s title — “Somebody That I Used To Know” — led fans to expect that the song of the same name, by breakout artist Gotye, would be used over the end credits. That song, which sounds more like Peter Gabriel’s ’80s material than anything in the pop music today, topped the U.S. singles charts earlier this year, has been covered on American Idol and The Voice, and was used on an episode of Glee. It turns out that sometimes a song can get too big for its own good.
True Blood Music Supervisor Gary Calamar told CBS Local, “Actually, when Mark Hudis first wrote the episode, he had the Gotye song in mind. At that point the song was new and just starting to become popular. By the time we got to post production on the episode the song was hugely huge. I think it’s great, but once a song has been featured on Glee it’s no longer right for True Blood end credits.” Luckily, there was an easy “plan B”: “I knew this great song by Elliott Smith with the same title. We gave it a try and it worked beautifully.” The late singer/songwriter Elliott Smith released the song on his 2000 album, Figure 8.
Here’s the chosen song by Elliott Smith:
A more familiar artist whose music was used on this week’s episode was blues legend Howlin’ Wolf. For a steamy scene that featured (female) fan favorite Alcide (Joe Manganiello) shirtless and “getting it on” with fellow werewolf Rikki (Kelly Overton), Howlin’ Wolf’s “Smokestack Lightnin’” played in the background. Right after the scene, “Alcide” began trending on Twitter (it was a good week, social media-wise, for the show: “Hoyt” and “Godric,” also characters on the show, were trending during and after the episode as well).
Calamar tells CBS Local, “We tried a few things over the love scene, but when we cut in Howlin Wolf’s blues classic ‘Smokestack Lightning’ we all knew this was the one to capture the wild sexuality of Alcide and Rikki.” True Blood has previously used covers of Wolf’s “Howlin’ For My Baby” and “Evil” on the show. “Smokestack Lightnin’” is one of his most well known songs, and has been covered by The Yardbirds, The Animals and The Grateful Dead, among others.
source: wcbsfm.cbslocal.com
Be sure to check out the section in our Episode Guide devoted to the music for each episode of Season 5. To see it, go to the Season 5 Episode Guide: Music. This guide is updated weekly with the songs featured in each episode after it airs.
Below are the songs from the fourth episode, “Let’s Boot ‘n Rally,” which aired last Sunday, July 8, 2012.We missed on the music speculation for this episode since the song is brand new and was written by Gary Calamar himself and just recorded by Iggy Pop and Best Coast’s Bethany Cosentino.
Great song Gary!
The songs featured in this episode were:
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“Let’s Make Santa Clause Happy” Didipop |
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“Rescue” Echo and the Bunnyman |
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“Undertow (NIC) Remix” Warpaint |
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“Let’s Boot And Rally” Iggy Pop with Bethany Cosentino |
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Last weeks’s True Blood episode 4, “We’ll Meet Again” had a scene of Sookie being pretty drunk because she is sure she is going to jail for having killed Debbie Pelt. She was drinking on her couch, singing along with Rupert Holmes’ ’70s hit “Escape,” better known as “The Pina Colada Song.”
True Blood Music Supervisor Gary Calamar, said that writer Alex Woo had suggested both “Escape” and Jimmy Buffett’s “Margaritaville” for the scene.
“At the end of the day, we chose ‘Escape.’ The songs were picked because of the humor, but we also had to find something that might conceivably be in Sookie’s grandmother’s record collection.” (Sookie lives in her late grandmother’s house).
Another great music moment came during the end credits, as “We’ll Meet Again” played. A hit during World War II, the version heard last night was a brand-new recording by Los Lobos, who cut the track specifically for the episode (which was also titled “We’ll Meet Again”).
A somewhat lesser known band, Abney Park, was featured in the episode as well: their song “Sleep Isabella” was used in the scene at the Fairie Club (for you obsessives, the club is called “Hot Wings”).
Next week’s episode, “Let’s Boot And Rally,” will feature a new, original song “Let’s Boot And Rally,” written by Calamar and recorded by Iggy Pop and Best Coast’s Bethany Cosentino.
source: wcbsfm.cbslocal.com
