True Grit: Classic Scores For The Films

Composer: Elmer Bernstein. Apart fromGlen Campbell's vocal performance on thetitle track and its reprise, this is an all-instrumental collection of vintage, Elmer Bernstein-composed, late-1960s Hollywood film music. It's remarkable in comparison with its 21st-century counterpart for its lack of brooding strings, authentic Native American war chants, or snatches of Americana-laced banjo and dulcimer. Instead, it's a mostly sunny collection of big-country orchestral arrangements with odd snatches of then-trendy electric sitar, with no pretensions to anything other than providing a little background atmosphere, which it does an excellent job of.

Track Listing

• 1 the main title
• 2 the escort
• 3 the mcbaine and the prairie
• 4 the jake surveys the camp
• 5 the pursuit
• 6 the mexican dance
• 7 the indian attack
• 8 the finale
• 9 main title
• 10 rooster and runaway
• 11 bald mountain
• 12 pony mine and papa's things
• 13 the dying moon
• 14 big trail
• 15 sad departure / the pace that kills
• 16 warm wrap-up
• 17 the main title
• 18 the ride
• 19 the in the fire
• 20 the epilogue
• 21 necktie party
• 22 nocturne
• 23 riders
• 24 reunion
• 25 all jake
• 26 buzzards
• 27 going home - finale