The dark comedy on the screen was a treat to see, lots
of good visual and verbal humor.  The music which
supports the fine film is an experience in itself.  The
varied talents of the musicians and choirs will give you
the reminiscence of the film, but also the feel of going
to church in the heart of many big cities-Baptist that is.

The soundtrack will have you neck deep in southern
black culture and wanting to dance onto church.
A fun selection of music and a grand film.

Soundtrack Album Reunites Grammy-Winning Producer T Bone Burnett
With Academy Award-Winning Joel and Ethan Coen
For First Time Since “0 Brother. Where Are Thou?”

New Comedy Starring Tom Hanks Opens Nationwide Friday, March 26

DMZ/Columbia/Sony Music Soundtrax is set to release The Ladykillers - Music From The Motion Picture, the soundtrack album from one of the year’s most eagerly- anticipated film comedies, on Tuesday, March 23.

The Ladykillers - Music From The Motion Picture marks the first time producer T Bone Burnett and filmmakers Joel and Ethan Coen have collaborated on a film soundtrack since the album of music from “0 Brother, Where Art Thou?” took home multiple Grammys, including “Album of the Year,” in 2001. One of the best-selling soundtrack albums in history, “0 Brother, Where Art Thou?” has been certified 7x platinum by the RJAA.

For “The Ladykillers,” Burnett and the Coen Brothers have created a film score that is both classic and modem, featuring timeless gospel tunes dating back to the 1930s, as well as new hip-hop music, incorporating elements of classic gospel, from the Grammy­ nominated Nappy Roots, who perform the album’s first single is “Trouble Of This World (Coming Home).”

The Coen Brothers have, as usual, made music an integral element in 
their film. “The Ladykillers’ features a combination of gospel music, hip-hop music, and baroque chamber music. “That’s actually one of the things that’s been very interesting about this project,” says Joel Coen.

“In this film, as with ‘0 Brother, Where Art Thou?,’ Joel and Ethan have woven the music in as an essential texture of the film, almost as a 
character itself,” says T Bone Burnett.

“I’ve heard all my life that rock and roll was born from gospel music, but
it wasn’t until I went back and listened to the whole canon of gospel from the last century that I realized — it really did all come from gospel,”
laughs Burnett. “So what we’ve done is to go back and rediscover some 
of the great gospel music that people have left behind — The Soul
Stirrers, Bill Landford and the Landfordaires, Blind Willie Johnson.”

Music fans can hear samples of every track on the album at the official web site for “The Ladykillers” (ladykillers.movies.com).

“The Ladykillers,” starring Academy Award®-winner Tom Hanks, opens nationwide on Friday, March 26. The film is the Coen Brothers’ retelling 
of the critically-acclaimed 1955 black comedy, “The Ladykillers.” Hanks stars as Goldthwait Higginson Don Ill, Ph.D., a charlatan professor who’s assembled a gang of “experts” for the heist of the century. The thieves: experts in explosions, tunneling, and muscle, and the critical “inside man.” The base of operations: the root cellar of an unsuspecting, church-going little old lady named Mrs. Munson, played by Irma P. Hall. The ruse: the five need a place to practice their church music. The problem: it quickly becomes evident that Don’s thieves lack the mental capacity to do the job. The bigger problem:they have all seriously underestimated their upstairs host. When Mrs. Munson stumbles onto their plot and threatens to notify the authorities, the felonious five decide to do her in. After all, how hard can it be to  knock off one old lady?

THE LADY KILLERS
MUSIC FROM THE MOTION PICTURE

1. COME, LET US GO BACK TO GOD
Performed by The Soul Stirrers

2. TROUBLE OF THIS WORLD (COMING HOME)
Performed by Nappy Roots

3. LET YOUR LIGHT SHINE ON ME
Performed by The Venice Four With Rose Stone and The Abbot Kinney Lighthouse Choir

4. ANOTHER DAY, ANOTHER DOLLAR
Performed by Nappy Roots

5. JESUS I’LL NEVER FORGET
Performed by The Soul Stirrers

6. TROUBLE IN, TROUBLE OUT
Performed by Nappy Roots

7. TROUBLE OF THIS WORLD *
Performed by Bill Landford & The Landfordaires

8. COME, LET US GO BACK TO GOD
Performed by Donnie McClurkin

9. WEEPING MARY
Performed by Rosewell Sacred Harp Quartet

10. SINNERS
Performed by Little Brother

11. TROUBLED, LORD I’M TROUBLED
Performed by Bill Landford & The Landfordaires

12. YOU CAN’T HURRY GOD *
Performed by Donnie Mc Clurkin

13. ANY DAY NOW
Performed by The Soul Stirrers

14. TROUBLE OF THIS WORLD
Performed by Rose Stone With The Venice Four
and The Abbot Kinney Lighthouse Choir

15. A CHRISTIAN’S PLEA *
Performed by Claude Jeter And The Swan 
Silvertones

16. LET YOUR LIGHT SHINE ON ME
Performed by Blind Wfflie Johnson

17. LET THE LIGHT FROM THE LIGHTHOUSE 
SHINE ON ME
Performed by The Venice Four With Rose Stone 
and The Abbot Kinney Lighthouse Choir

18. YES
Performed by The Abbot Kinney Lighthouse Choir
Featuring Kristle Murden