Hope Floats: Music From The Motion Picture [Audio CD] Various Artists - Soundtracks; Bryan Adams; Garth Brooks; Deana Carter; Sheryl Crow; Trisha Yearwood; The Rolling Stones; Lyle Lovett; The Mavericks and Lila McCann

GeneerGAmazon.com Though it follows a standard movie formula and predictable plot twists, the film Hope Floats is saved in part by the above-average performance of Sandra Bullock, portraying a separated woman who finds her way back to her hometown in Texas, daughter in tow. The soundtrack seems to follow in due course, a collection of country and rock (thanks to the Rolling Stones) acts adding shades of twang to songs that, for the most part, all sound fairly familiar. The duds of the bunch, Bryan Adams's "When You Love Someone" and Sheryl Crow's "In Need," are saved in large part by some surprise keepers, courtesy of Garth Brooks, the Mavericks, and Gillian Welch. The covers are interesting enough. Brooks's take on Dylan's "To Make You Feel My Love" is modest and pithy and a far cry from the overblown Trisha Yearwood performance of the same tune that codas the collection. --Jason Verlinde Product description The film's soundtrack was released in 1998 under the production of Don Was. The album included the works of several country music and adult contemporary artists, including Garth Brooks, The Rolling Stones, Bob Seger and Sheryl Crow. One of its cuts, Brooks's "To Make You Feel My Love," was a Number One single on the Billboard country singles charts in August 1998. Review Don Was has made his name as purveyor of grown-up roots pop, a genre that runs through the album like wild horses. Sometimes it works: Witness Gillian Welch's "Paper Wings," which resurrects the dark side of Patsy Cline. Yet Was' penchant for adult-oriented tastefulness also leads to sop like Bob Seger and Martina McBride's "Chances Are"... and not one but two vanilla-wafer covers of Bob Dylan's "To Make You Feel My Love" (by Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood). -- Entertainment Weekly [ Hope Floats] is a self-contained musical feast that also perfectly conjures the film's cycle of heartbreak, healing and renewed hope.... Several tracks capture the pain of lost love, though none as palpably as Gillian Welch's aching "Paper Wings" ("Paper wings, not real at all, but they took me high enough to really fall"). Lyle Lovett's resurrection of Charlie Chaplin's "Smile" nails the classic's ambiguity in a reading that darts from optimism to feigned courage. -- USA Today [T]he overriding tone of the music is, "There, there, now--buck up, kid." Fortunately, the main theme that bookends the album is a good one: Bob Dylan's "Make You Feel My Love," sung first (and with touching understatement) by Garth Brooks. -- Los Angeles Times