Purporting to be the soundtrack to ' second film, this album collects songs used in the film on one side with new material on the other. The weakness of a couple of the movie tunes and the fact that the new songs were leftovers from the sessions used to produce ' first gospel EP and latest single add up to his weakest album offering, although any album with is alright. If you think of as simply an album, rather than a somewhat misleadingly packaged soundtrack, it was actually one of his more coherent and cohesive long-players, assembled from sessions all conducted in the first two months of 1957. By this time, he was doing precious little that was wrong, and his range and control were growing geometrically -- thus, amid some powerful rock & roll, including (which could almost have passed for one of his tracks), the electric guitar-driven 's and a hard, brittle-textured outtake of does some brilliant ballad singing on and and belts out one of his great blues performances on -- which boasts a killer guitar part -- and moves into territory with the hauntingly beautiful Western ballad He doesn't do badly with either. [ 's 2009 edition included eight bonus tracks.] ~ Neal Umphred & Bruce Eder