Bob Dylan wrote the end-title song for G&G? Who would have thunk it?

[civilwartalk]

As posted at the G&G website:


Bob Dylan's new song for Gods and Generals is "a haunting, moving ballad, reminiscent of his earliest works with the added insights of a lifetime."

After hearing the song, performed by Dylan and his band, for the first time, Ron Maxwell reported, "In this song Dylan has in a sense returned to his roots as a folk-country balladeer - the same roots that nourished the mountain men of western Virginia, the home of Thomas Jonathan Jackson, and countless others who fought for both the Blue and the Gray. It isn't easy for a single song to evoke the feelings of an entire war. But Bob Dylan's new song, written expressly for our film, achieves this elusive goal. It is at once specific to our characters and story and universal in its statement on the tragedy of war and the poignancy of the lives swept up in it. The poetry of the lyrics, the driving rythms, the melodic line - it's classic Dylan."

The song, entitled, "Cross the Green Mountain," and running approximately seven minutes, will be featured over the closing titles of the film and be available on the sound-track album to be released this Christmas on **** records.


http://godsandgenerals.com/