Blues Brothers 2000: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack is a soundtrack album that features the Blues Brothers. It is a soundtrack album to the 1998 film, Blues Brothers 2000, the sequel to the 1980 film, The Blues Brothers.
In addition to tracks by the Blues Brothers Band performed with guest artists such as Aretha Franklin, James Brown, Dr. John, Lonnie Brooks, Junior Wells, Eddie Floyd and Wilson Pickett, there are songs by the Paul Butterfield Blues Band and Blues Traveler as well as an all-star blues supergroup, the Louisiana Gator Boys, featuring B.B. King, Eric Clapton, Bo Diddley, Charlie Musselwhite, Travis Tritt, Doctor John, Lou Rawls, Koko Taylor, Isaac Hayes, Billy Preston and other artists.
This is the first official Blues Brothers release to feature John Goodman, although his first performance as a member of the group occurred at the House of Blues in Los Angeles in 1995.
Contents
Other songs in the film
In addition to the soundtrack, there are songs that appear in the film as background music that do not feature on the soundtrack. They include:
"Last Night" by the Blues Brothers Band - plays when Elwood and Buster drive through the city to Willie's Strip Club
"Gumpstumper" by Ben Vaughan - plays during the car chase scene between Elwood, Mack & Buster and the Russian gangsters, after Willie's Strip Club is burnt down
"Honkytonk Dancing Machine" by Tracy Byrd - plays in the background of the scene at Bob's Country Kitchen
"Please Please Please" by James Brown and Blues Brothers - plays as the lady is leaving at the end of the movie
"Checkin' Up on My Baby" by Junior Wells and Lonnie Brooks - from a scene in Willie's Strip Club that was recorded for the film but only included during the end credits. This is one of Wells' final performances before he died in early 1998.
Credits
"Mighty" Mack McTeer (John Goodman) - vocals
Buster Blues (J. Evan Bonifant) - vocals
Cab Blues (Joe Morton) - vocals
Elwood J. Blues (Dan Aykroyd) - vocals, blues harp
Steve "the Colonel" Cropper - guitar
Matt "Guitar" Murphy - lead guitar
Donald "Duck" Dunn - bass
"Blue" Lou Marini - alt, tenor and baritone saxophone
Alan "Mr. Fabulous" Rubin - trumpet
Tom "Bones" Malone - trombone, alto, tenor and baritone saxophone
Birch "Crimson Slide" Johnson - trombone
Paul "The Shiv" Shaffer - keyboards, producer
Leon "The Lion" Pendarvis - keyboards
Murphy "Murph" Dunne - keyboards
Anton Fig - drums
Steve Potts - drums
Willie "Too Big" Hall - drums
John Popper - harmonica