Saw it in my first week of college. Have been enraptured ever since. Showed it to my husband a few years ago. He really liked it. Just found out he's been listening to Ronee and Keith ever since....lol.
Why is "Since You've Gone" not on the LP soundtrack?
"I slept with you and you're in love with my husband. What the hell am I supposed to do with that?"
I bought the soundtrack on vinyl back in the seventies. I think that song wasn't included simply because it wouldn't fit! Vinyl LPs have a limited running time. Years later, I bought the CD version of the soundtrack, hoping they had added "Since You've Gone" but, alas, it's still missing. Great song!
Here's a fun article about the soundtrack:
http://pitchfork.com/thepitch/153-revisiting-the-strange-and-wonderful-soundtrack-to-robert-altmans-nashville/
Here's a live band doing a cover of "Since You've Gpne" on YouTube. (The singer is dismayed that the audience doesn't know the soundtrack from Nashville!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSgUuiAmPlY
And here's a bizarre "Tribute Album" to the movie (with shaky results.) You can click and hear samples of each song:
https://www.amazon.com/Tribute-Robert-Altmans-Nashville/dp/B00005YDHE
Thank you. I have that vinyl LP as well. I'll check out your thoughtful offerings when I have a little more time. Had no idea there was a tribute album!!LOL... why didn't I think of that?
Got to see Ronee Blakley sing at at downtown Manhattan club in the mid eighties. Was always baffled as to why she never made it bigger, both as an actress and as a singer/songwriter. I could listen to "Dues" over and over.
"I slept with you and you're in love with my husband. What the hell am I supposed to do with that?"
Lucky you! I would have loved to have seen her, and I've been living in downtown Manhattan since the early eighties so I could have but missed my chance! Damn. Well, I searched on YouTube and it seems she played at the Bitter End in 2010. She's definitely older, heavier, and almost unrecognizable. But that voice! Beautiful. Here she is singing Dues...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gO29h-OZHow
She sounds great, especially considering that she's 65 in this clip.
I'd like to add two comments:
The Nashville tribute album was recorded about 15-20 years ago by a group of friends from Vancouver/ Victoria BC. It'd done with great respect to the material, with the odd humorous twist. For example, the song 'Since You've Gone' is included and even has the throat-clearing moment. It may be out of print but it is well worth having.
I also saw Ronee Blakely live at a concert/ rally in Vancouver in 1976. Not only that, I also went backstage and asked her to sign a lobby card from the movie. She was genuinely sweet and was happy to do so. It's a great memory (I still have the lobby card, framed.)
My crush on Ronee Blakely lasted about a year and a half. The crush on Barbara Jean has lasted over forty years.
You get your hair cut, you don't belong in Nashville