Walk The Line OST

While director James Mangold's decision to have his actors do their own singing in his Johnny Cash biopic Walk The Line is a sound one, 20th Century Fox's decision to release their efforts as a CD is not. Joaquin Phoenix's attempts to sound like Johnny Cash without resorting to sheer impressionism are valiant and Reese Witherspoon does her best to channel June Carter, but these people are actors, not Nashville stars. Despite producer T. Bone Burnett's best efforts, these renditions of Cash's classics are flat — even a spirited duet like "Jackson" is utterly lifeless. Phoenix and Witherspoon's karaoke is fine for the cinema, but only the real thing should find its way onto your home stereo. 

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