Earlier today, we told you about a new Bob Dylan song to be featured in the film My Own Love Song, starring Renée Zellweger and Forest Whitaker. As it turns out, “Life Is Hard” isn’t the only Dylan composition to be included on the movie’s soundtrack.
According to the official My Own Love Song site (via CoS and Examiner), there are also 16 other previously unreleased pieces of music from Dylan’s Together Through Life sessions in the film’s score (listed below), as well as various other songs from his back catalog.
Watch part of Renée Zellweger’s performance of “Life is Hard” here, and check out the full list of new Bob Dylan compositions in My Own Love Song below:
01 “Sweeping The Floor”
02 “Bumble Bee”
03 “Jane’s Lament”
04 “Joey’s Theme”
05 “Driving South”
06 “Back Alley”
07 “Snow Falling”
08 “Billie #30”
09 “Road Weary”
10 “Click Clack”
11 “Robbie Robert’s Lament”
12 “New Orleans Drums”
13 “Jane’s Step”
14 “Swingin’”
15 “Blues Club (Playback)”
16 “East Texas”
In an interview written in French on the film’s site, director Olivier Dahan said:
[Dylan] composed the songs while I was shooting, I could not show him the footage, so I made him short clips. But I knew he understood what I wanted to tell from the beginning of the collaboration. We talked by phone about the film’s themes and aesthetics… His only requirement was to write one song with very specific content, that the character of Jane sings to her son she found after seven years of absence, entitled “Life is hard.” He wrote many more songs than necessary. He also composed instrumentals. The first time we met, he was very concerned about whether the music stuck with what I imagined. I was very lucky to work with this great artist.