According to Movie Score Magazine, Nathan Barr ranks in the top 100 grossing film composers of the past decade, with his works on “The Dukes of Hazzard” and “Hostel” contributing to the successes.
We all know Nathan Barr as the composer of the original music for True Blood. His haunting and beautiful background music is a signature of the show and, according to his web site, he thinks it is his most ambitious solo project to date. Recently his score album from True Blood made best of 2009 by Examiner.com and Soundtrackgeek.com.
Barr has scored more than 24 feature films in addition to The Dukes of Hazzard, such as the unconventional Broken Lizard comedies Beerfest and Club Dread, New Regency’s hit supernatural thriller Shutter, Lions Gate’s horrifying thriller Hostel and Hostel 2 directed by Eli Roth, and Universal Pictures’ critically acclaimed documentary Beyond the Mat, among many others.
Barr is currently scoring the second season of True Blood and scoring Strike Entertianment’s film Cotton, produced by Eli Roth and Eric Newman.
Congratulations Nathan! I have his CD. The man is very talented!
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