Music From Montana Story

by Kevin Morby

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1.	Main Theme 00:40	buy track
2.	Exchange Of Keys 00:30	buy track
3.	Darkness Of Night 01:26	buy track
4.	Main Theme Variation 00:40	buy track
5.	One Paper Kid 02:44	buy track
6.	Final Exchange 01:00	buy track
7.	Copperhead 01:23	buy track
8.	Joey's Theme 00:30	buy track
9.	Mando Theme 01:08	buy track
10.	Darkness Of Night Variation 01:34	buy track
11.	Locked Out 02:14	buy track
12.	Dance With Me Child 01:26	buy track
13.	Like A Flower 03:15	buy track

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Kevin Morby releases Music From Montana Story, a soundtrack for the 2021 film Montana Story, via Dead Oceans. Additionally, he shares a new video for the soundtrack’s featured track “Like A Flower.”

Written, produced and directed by Scott McGehee and David Siegel (What Maisie Knew, The Deep End), Montana Story is distributed by Bleecker Street / Stage 6 Fillms and available to stream on Showtime and major SVOD platforms. The film is a neo-Western that tells the story of two estranged siblings (Haley Lu Richardson, Owen Teague) who return home to the family ranch they once knew and loved, confronting deep and bitter secrets in the process. It’s a human-scaled story set against a mythic American backdrop - Montana’s Big Sky Country, sprawling with vast outdoor spaces and lonesome homes. Morby’s Music From Montana Story articulates both that sprawl and lonesomeness with the precision and delicate mastery of an artist who has always written straight from the heart, often about the very Western people and places that shaped his sound.

Before a note is played, there’s a delicate musicality to Montana Story – the crackle of gravel and strained local radio; tense familial silence; the pacing of footsteps in the morning cold. Morby’s score gives spirit and melody to that musicality: piano bars move like cautious footsteps while guitars hover over sleepless nights back in your childhood bedroom; radio songs flicker on with their timeless magic, creeping from the dial to the part of you that sings along in your truck and never, ever seems to forget the words. Music From Montana Story is as restrained and evocative as the story it lives inside, understated in its power but undeniable in its beauty. In “Like A Flower,” Morby’s voice unfurls over blooming instrumentation. The accompanying video was directed by filmmakers Scott McGehee and David Siegel intertwines clips from their filmwith footage shot in Kansas City, where Morby is based.

"It has long been a dream of mine to one day score a film and with Montana Story I couldn’t have asked for a more perfect film to do so,” says Morby. “Against wide open landscapes the film is patiently and masterfully captured and it was my job, alongside my collaborator Rob Barbato, to write a score with as much beauty and depth as the film itself. I’m so proud of how everything turned out and am forever grateful to directors Scott Mcgeehee and David Siegel for bringing me on."

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released January 25, 2023

Music and Lyrics by Kevin Morby, except "One Paper Kid" written by Walter Martin Cowart
Produced and Arranged by Rob Barbato (2021, Squeak E Clean Studios NYC and Austin)
Publishing: Kevin Morby (ASCAP, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd), Rob Barbato (BMI, New England Rose Music), Walter Martin Cowart (ASCAP, BMG BUMBLEBEE OBO DRUNK MONKEY MUSIC)

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Kevin Morby Kansas City, Missouri

Kevin Morby writes (and records, and imagines) at an almost incomparable clip, and his most recent album, This Is A Photograph, studies life, time and mortality through myriad lenses. It’s a dynamic, buoyant record on big, heavy themes, so it only makes sense that Morby found he wasn’t quite done with it on its completion. More Photographs (A Continuum) finds new nooks, corners and vantage points. ... more

shows

May 3

Central Park Atlanta

Atlanta, GA
May 18

Sound Mind Music Festival

Brooklyn, NY
Jul 1

Chalk

Brighton, UK
Jul 2

Leeds Irish Centre

Leeds, UK
Jul 3

Boiler Shop

Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK
Jul 4

The Castle & Falcon, Birmingham

Birmingham, UK
Jul 5

Crystal Palace Park

London, UK
Jul 7

L'Aéronef

Lille, France
Jul 8

LA VAPEUR

Dijon, France
Jul 9

Le Trianon

Paris, France
Jul 13

TD Pavilion at the Mann

Philadelphia, PA
Aug 9

State Theatre

Portland, ME
Aug 10

Thompson’s Point

Portland, ME
Nov 15

Weissenhäuser Strand Hotel

Hamburg, Germany

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