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"Heartlands" is an album by British folk musicians Kate Rusby and John McCusker, released in 2003. It was the soundtrack to the film Heartlands.
BBC Review ,The road movie may seem like an incongruous thing for British cinema to attempt. Indeed East Is East director Damien ODonnell describes, Heartlands, as a 'B-road movie'. The film concerns the tale of cuckolded darts player Colin and his journey across the North West of England to win his wife back. This is no cool-cars-rolling-down-the-two-lane-blacktop type of film, however. It's a story of an ordinary man on a moped. Thus, you'll find no rolling, highway-chewing numbers on this album. McCusker and Rusby have fashioned an album that's full of pathos and a strange, quiet dignity. Alternating new instrumentals with familiar songs by Kate the album's purpose as soundtrack is reinforced by an overall similarity in pace and feeling, with the non-vocal tracks echoing Kate's melodic themes. Reflecting the main theme of a man sundered from his love they've chosen songs that concern lost lovers (''Drowned Lovers''), unfaithfulness (''Let The Cold Wind Blow'') and, ultimately, closure after the separation (''Over You Now'').
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