Saw the movie today... bought the sound track an hour later. Both superb! I wish there had been more Sacred Harp singing... brings tears to my eyes every time.

Regarding Guest Martin Gibson's comment above -

"My wife brought home the CD soundtrack from the movie last night.
After listening to about 1/2 of it, I couldn't stand it any longer.
Outside of Allison Krause, some of the worst singing I have heard in a while. Quite irritating. What a let down.
I would much rather hear traditional music performed by people who can carry a tune, or rather not at all."

Mr. Martin, you obviously haven't seen the film. If you had, you'd know that the songs performed in the context of the film were not done by polished professionals. If they had sounded more professoinal, you'd have more negative comments similar to the ones about Nicole Kidman being too beautiful for her role. The music in the film was done by ordninary characters that seemed to live their parts very realistically. It was EXCELLENT, as was the whole project.