David A. Stewart - Cookie's Fortune: Music From The Motion Picture Soundtrack (1999)

The soundtrack to Robert Altman's Cookie's Fortune comes courtesy of Dave Stewart, who does a good job in evoking the film's distinctive tragi-comic atmosphere; for "Cookie's Theme," he reunites with saxophonist Candy Dulfer, with whom he scored an earlier soundtrack hit with the theme from Lily Was Here. ~ Raymond McKinney, All Music

With the help of some friends, Eurythmics member Dave Stewart has made an effective, if ethereal, down-home blues score to Cookie's Fortune, Robert Altman's film set in the town of Holly Springs, Mississippi. In Stewart's hands, the sounds of the deep South are given some '90s-styled updates, namely dance beats and sampled dialogue from the movie. The mix works, and the result is a soulful, yet varied score centered on Stewart's funky slide guitar. Saxophonist Candy Dulfer duets with Stewart on the single, "Cookie," a tune that's far more down-and-dirty than their 1992 hit single, "Lily Was Here." Patches of record hisses and crackles give the tunes a weathered feel, and even U2's Bono helps out with backing vocals on "A Good Man." ~ Jason Verlinde