From Dusk Till Dawn
follows the pattern of previous
Quentin Tarantino
-related movie
soundtracks
by concentrating on a particular musical theme -- in this case,
Tex-Mex
-flavored
blues-rock
-- and punctuating it with dialogue from the film. However, the
soundtrack
doesn't work quite as well as the ones for
Pulp Fiction
and
Reservoir Dogs
, mainly because the majority of the music is made-to-order and familiar, not resurrected oldies or forgotten genre gems. There are some good songs -- the presence of
Stevie Ray Vaughan
,
the Blasters
, and
ZZ Top
guarantees that -- but the majority of the album is dull, and that includes the excerpts of dialogue. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine