MUD Original Motion Picture Soundtrack Released Today

Lakeshore Records will release the Mud - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack digitally today, April 23, 2013. The album features original music by David Wingo and songs by Dirty Three, Jeff McIlwain, Ben Nichols and Lucero, with whom Wingo collaborated on two original tracks.

"Since [director] Jeff's [Nichols] brother Ben and his band Lucero worked on several pieces of music for the film it was really great to have that opportunity to work on having my score and their music co-exist and mingle in an organic way that made sense right from the start," described Wingo. "It was very valuable to establish a seamless relationship there between their music and my music since there were songs of Ben's that Jeff knew he wanted to use before I even started scoring the film."

This sort of collaboration is a natural for composer David Wingo. He got his start in film scoring on David Gordon Green's debut feature George Washington, collaborating on the score with Michael Linnen. The movie went on to win numerous awards, quickly gaining a reputation as one of the more astounding debuts in modern American cinema. Wingo and Linnen collaborated again on Green's Sundance Award-winning follow-up All The Real Girls, and since that time Wingo has worked with Green on a majority of his other films.

Mud is the second collaboration between Wingo and Jeff Nichols. Their previous film Take Shelter, won the Grand Prix prize at the Cannes Film Festival and landed Wingo a Discovery Of The Year Award nomination at the World Soundtrack Awards. Mud and David Gordon Green's Prince Avalanche (co-composed with the Austin band Explosions In The Sky) both had their North American premieres at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival.

Wingo has also been active with his band Ola Podrida since 2006, putting out two full-length LPs (Ola Podrida and Belly Of The Lion) with a new one due April 30th (Ghosts Go Blind). They have toured the U.S. and Europe multiple times and have shared the stage with such acts as Fleet Foxes, She & Him, Beach House, and Explosions In The Sky.

Mud is an adventure about two boys, Ellis (Tye Sheridan) and his friend Neckbone (Jacob Lofland), who find a man named Mud (Matthew McConaughey) hiding out on an island in the Mississippi. Mud describes fantastic scenarios-he killed a man in Texas and vengeful bounty hunters are coming to get him. He says he is planning to meet and escape with the love of his life, Juniper (Reese Witherspoon), who is waiting for him in town. Skeptical but intrigued, Ellis and Neckbone agree to help him. It isn't long until Mud's visions come true and their small town is besieged by a beautiful girl with a line of bounty hunters in tow.

"This was the first film I've worked on that had a big classic opening that really sets the tone for the rest of the movie so we were focused on nailing that from the get-go," said Wingo. "There's several different movements in that opening piece so it really was important to set up several themes and melodies as well as varied instrumentation that were to be expanded upon and referred back to throughout the rest of the film."

Track Listing
01. Opening - David Wingo and Lucero
02. Where'd He Go - David Wingo
03. Leaving Island - David Wingo
04. Take You Away - Lucero
05. Sleeping In Trees - David Wingo
06. Juniper - David Wingo
07. Alice Wading - Dirty Three
08. Back To The Island - David Wingo
09. Tom Blankenship - David Wingo
10. This Night - Dirty Three
11. Davy Brown - Ben Nichols
12. Carver - David Wingo
13. Everything You Need - Lucero
14. The Kid - Ben Nichols
15. King - David Wingo
16. Stealing Motor - David Wingo
17. Hotel - David Wingo
18. Looking for Juniper - David Wingo
19. Leaving Bar - David Wingo
20. Lost Love - David Wingo
21. Something Else On His Mind - David Wingo
22. One Last Letter - David Wingo
23. May Pearl - Jeff McIlwain
24. Snakebite - Lucero
25. Clinic- David Wingo
26. Mud and Juniper - David Wingo
27. Aftermath - David Wingo
28. In Fall - Dirty Three
29. Ending - Lucero and David Wingo

Lionsgate and Everest Entertainment present Mud in theaters in select markets on April 26, 2013. The Mud - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack will be available digitally through all major providers today, April 23, 2013.