dvandkq
05-01-2008, 01:21 PM
If you don't have this album, you're missing out. It's simply gorgeous.
I'll admit I'm biased. My wife and I have done two trips down the length of the Grand Canyon - an 18-day trip in 2003 (http://dvandkq.net/Grand%20Canyon%202003.htm) and a 21-day trip in 2004 (http://dvandkq.net/Grand%20Canyon%202004.htm). Our son was conceived on the 2004 trip and is named after John Wesley Powell. Track #4 is named "John Wesley Powell". So I couldn't be happier about my Grand Canyon and DMB world colliding with the IMAX 3D movie and the DMB soundtrack.
But aside from my biases, the music on the soundtrack is hauntingly beautiful. You'll recognize threads of many old favorites coursing through newly-named songs. You'll notice that some old favorites have been re-worked and given new titles (i.e. "Connecting to Nature" is simply a re-worked "The Space Between"). "Steady As We Go" is given an especially beautiful treatment.
It may be too mellow for some, but this mostly acoustic album is, in my opinion, an unexpectedly amazing creation. No DMB music collection can be considered complete without this collection of songs.
And if you get a chance to see the movie, jump on it. The movie will get your adrenaline pumping and you'll never view the Grand Canyon the same way again. Plus, you get to sing along with the soundtrack :)
I'll admit I'm biased. My wife and I have done two trips down the length of the Grand Canyon - an 18-day trip in 2003 (http://dvandkq.net/Grand%20Canyon%202003.htm) and a 21-day trip in 2004 (http://dvandkq.net/Grand%20Canyon%202004.htm). Our son was conceived on the 2004 trip and is named after John Wesley Powell. Track #4 is named "John Wesley Powell". So I couldn't be happier about my Grand Canyon and DMB world colliding with the IMAX 3D movie and the DMB soundtrack.
But aside from my biases, the music on the soundtrack is hauntingly beautiful. You'll recognize threads of many old favorites coursing through newly-named songs. You'll notice that some old favorites have been re-worked and given new titles (i.e. "Connecting to Nature" is simply a re-worked "The Space Between"). "Steady As We Go" is given an especially beautiful treatment.
It may be too mellow for some, but this mostly acoustic album is, in my opinion, an unexpectedly amazing creation. No DMB music collection can be considered complete without this collection of songs.
And if you get a chance to see the movie, jump on it. The movie will get your adrenaline pumping and you'll never view the Grand Canyon the same way again. Plus, you get to sing along with the soundtrack :)