Marco Beltrami - The Three Burials Of Melquiades Estrada (2006)

Recall's issue of the soundtrack and original score for The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada, the Tommy Lee Jones-directed film (with a screenplay by Guillermo Arriaga) that starred Jones, Julio Cesar Cedillo, January Jones, Melissa Leo, and Dwight Yoakam, is a handsome edition that features percussion, folk, Tex-Mex, norteño, and country. Some of the performers on the soundtrack include Yoakam, Merle Haggard, Lila Downs, Hank Williams, Jr., and the late great Freddy Fender. But it's the band performing Marco Beltrami's haunting score that is the real draw here. Full of spare percussive cues and atmospherics created with acoustic guitars, minimal sound effects, and other limited instruments, the music is as affecting as the film, and Jones and Beltrami should win an award for it.

Tracklist:
1.01 - Marco Beltrami - Three Burials Of Melquiades (2:07)
1.02 - Marco Beltrami - Cinco Años (1:22)
1.03 - Marco Beltrami - Fair To Midland (3:29)
1.04 - Marco Beltrami - Leaving Town (2:24)
1.05 - Marco Beltrami - Mike Runs Off (4:05)
1.06 - Marco Beltrami - I Wonder Who'll Turn Out The Light (In Your World Tonight) (3:02)
1.07 - Marco Beltrami - Gift Horse (2:04)
1.08 - Marco Beltrami - Can't Keep It Up (2:53)
1.09 - Marco Beltrami - The Cheatin' Hotel (5:15)
1.10 - Marco Beltrami - Entering Town (1:20)
1.11 - Marco Beltrami - Fleeing Illegals (1:22)
1.12 - Marco Beltrami - This Could Be The One (2:51)
1.13 - Marco Beltrami - Horse Of Death (1:37)
1.14 - Marco Beltrami - Pete Confronts Sheriff (1:19)
1.15 - Marco Beltrami - Stalking Mike (1:35)
1.16 - Marco Beltrami - Workin' Man Blues (2:46)
1.17 - Marco Beltrami - Shoot Me (1:36)
1.18 - Marco Beltrami - House Building (1:15)
1.19 - Marco Beltrami - Before The Next Teardrop Falls (2:36)
1.20 - Marco Beltrami - No Jimenez (2:25)
1.21 - Marco Beltrami - Forgiveness (2:09)
1.22 - Marco Beltrami - Goodbye (2:49)
1.23 - Marco Beltrami - You Can't Rollerskate In A Buffalo Herd (1:56)
1.24 - Marco Beltrami - Donde Estas Papa (5:10)