If you saw the Golden Globes the other day, you might’ve noticed that Jeff Bridges won the best-actor gong for his role in the music movie Crazy Heart.  Quite looking forward to seeing it:

Crazy Heart is a 2009 American musical-drama film, written and directed by Scott Cooper and based on the 1987 novel of the same name by Thomas Cobb.Jeff Bridges plays Bad Blake, a down-and-out country music singer/songwriter who tries to turn his life around after beginning a relationship with a young journalist named Jean, portrayed by Maggie Gyllenhaal. Supporting roles are played by Colin Farrell, Robert Duvall, Beth Grant and Sarah Jane Morris. Bridges, Farrell, and Duvall, also sing in the film. The film’s main character is based on a combination of Waylon Jennings, Kris Kristofferson and Merle Haggard. Cooper initially wanted to do a biopic on Haggard but found the rights to his life story were too difficult to obtain. The film has been described by Leonard Maltin as “half Big Lebowski, half Urban Cowboy meets The Wrestler”.

Naturally, there is a soundtrack to go with it and it mixes classic country with tracks by the actors themselves, including a couple by Bridges on which (on my brief listenings) he does a pretty good job.  There’s also a couple of songs written specifically for the film.  In fact, the title track, written by Ryan Bingham, picked up the Globe for best original song.  The fact that the show’s musical director was T-Bone Burnett almost guaranteed that there’d be a touch of class about the soundtrack.

Anyway, the whole point of this is to tell you that you can stream the entire album at this site.  Go have a listen.

PS: Worth noting that there is a “deluxe” 23-song version of the soundtrack available too, but that this isn’t the one that is streamed at that link. And here’s the movie trailer.