When movie director Olivier Dahan (“La Vie en Rose”) asked Bob Dylan to contribute a song (“Life Is Hard”) to his new film “My Own Love Song” starring Renée Zellweger and Forest Whitaker, Bob wrote many more songs than he had been asked to. At the end it was enough new material to fill a whole new album (“Together Through Life”) and provide an additional score for the movie.
There are 16 previously unreleased Dylan songs on the soundtrack, some of which are instrumental. “Life Is Hard” is used in two different versions, one sung by Dylan and another one sung by Zellweger.
Bob Dylan songs used in the movie:
- Forgetful Heart #
- Life Is Hard #
- Sweeping The Floor
- Bumble Bee
- Jane’s Lament
- Joey’s Theme
- I Feel a Change Comin’ On #
- Driving South
- What Good Am I *
- Back Alley
- Snow Falling
- Billie #30
- Precious Angel *
- Road Weary
- Click Clack
- Life Is Hard (Instrumental)
- Robbie Robert’s Lament
- New Orleans Drums
- Jane’s Step
- I Believe In You *
- Swingin’
- Blues Club (Playback)
- It’s All Good #
- East Texas
- Beyond Here Lies Nothin’ #
* cover version, not performed by Bob Dylan
# from “Together Through Life”
Here’s the trailer to the movie including “Precious Angel” from the album “Slow Train Coming” (1979) and “Life Is Hard”, sung by Renée Zellweger:
If you were lucky enough to see the movie, please tell us how you liked it and what you think about Dylan’s soundtrack songs.
