Editorial Reviews: Lucky You, because the songs it culls and the artists who sing them will crack your composure quicker than an ace player can call a beginner's bluff: Opener "Lucky Town," the vintage Bruce Springsteen gem that rolls over the film's title sequence and turned its trailer into something non-players could get their hearts around, sets a fine mood for gritty melancholy, but Madeline Peyroux makes short work of it with the dizzy delirium of "Dance Me to the End of Love." By the time Ryan Adams and Bonnie Raitt are dealt in, the soundtrack's tableaux has taken on the look of a late-night boozy diner gathering--Liza Minelli backs up against Springsteen's elegant "The Fever" with her brooding but bubble-voiced "Maybe This Time," but not before George Jones steers her toward reflection with his ruminative, impossibly sad "Choices." The buzz around this CD has had a lot to do with a couple of original songs: Kris Kristofferson confronts his advancing age the way longtime fans would want him to (that is, with wit and warmth and imagination) on the poignant "They Ain't Got 'Em All." And after Bob Dylan reminds the lucky owners of this collection why they became fans in the first place with "Like A Rolling Stone," he swallows them whole with a new composition. "Huck's Tune" outlines a love grown unhealthy, and it is no split pot. With this small miracle of a song, he raises the ante to impossible heights. --Tammy La Gorce
