Iron & Wine Streaming "Rattling Bone" from the Lone Ranger Soundtrack.

The release date for Disney's, The Lone Ranger Soundtrack, has been green lit for July 2nd, and will feature artists ranging from Iggy Pop to Grace Potter & The Nocturnals. Iron & Wine have their contribution to the album "Rattling Bone", available to be streamed at SPIN.com here. And for all intents and purposes, it's a great one. I'm a sucker for westerns and I feel like Hollywood's been spoiling me lately with them every year. What with, that remake of True Grit, staring the Dude and that remake of 3:10 To Yuma, starring Batman...okay so a lot of remakes staring people I liked in other roles. But still, I can't deny the love I get from a good ol' fashion western, and a soundtrack that capitalizes on that trend in the best way, is a win for me. Iron & Wine's contribution starts off as mellow folk rocker, before turning things up, and I'll admit, I'm a bit emamoured with it.

In slightly other news, I understand that a lot of decent people (key word here is decent) are worried that Johnny Depp's' portrayal of Tonto (a fictional charter made up by white men in Hollywood to be caricature of a culture they didn't give to shits to bother understanding) might veer on the offensively bad side. And there's also the worry that Johnny Depp, for all his posturing about not meaning to offend anyone, will hide behind the bullshit "it's art" excuse used by so many Hollywood elite to perpetuate racial stereotypes. Believe me, I get it. I loved Django Unchained, but looking back it felt very uncomfortable; especially being the lone black man in a room full of white people that I felt might be laughing a bit too hard at Samuel Jackson's nigger tirade. However, it does look the film crew and Johnny Depp did their best to incorporate some real historical elements into Tonto's charter (for starters giving him a damn tribe and actually asking people of that tribe for input; The Comanche). I understand that everyone's doing their best job to add some real depth to what was organically a horribly racist character. And I also understand that some of the Native American communtiy will be understandably offended anyway, as it's well within their right. But so far, Disney gets my applause for really trying.

By the way, a fun little comment I found from a poster on the Huffington Post article where I got most of the details from (which I suggest reading). It's a great comment to have in reserve the minute anyone starts going off on a  "everyone's too sensitive these days", rant.


People were always offended by this kind of thing. It's just that in decades past they didn't have the power to say so. Which made everyone else assume it was somehow okay.


Word Adam L. Brinklow. Word.