South of Heaven, West of Hell is country

Country music

Country music is a popular American musical style that began in the rural Southern United States in the 1920s. It takes its roots from Western cowboy and folk music...

 singer Dwight Yoakam

Dwight Yoakam

Dwight David Yoakam is an American singer-songwriter, actor and film director, most famous for his pioneering country music...

's soundtrack album

Soundtrack album

A soundtrack album is any album that incorporates music directly recorded from the soundtrack of a particular feature film or television program. In some cases, not all the tracks from the movie are included in the album; however there are rare cases of songs in the trailers that do not appear in...

 to the motion picture of the same name in which he both starred

Leading actor

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 and directed

Film director

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. Yoakam portrays a lawman in the early 1900s in the "wild west

American Old West

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" of the Arizona Territory

Arizona Territory

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. Half of the tracks in the album are country music tracks. The other tracks are short snippets of straight dialog scenes from the film itself. There are many well-known co-stars in the movie, including Peter Fonda

Peter Fonda

Peter Henry Fonda is an American actor. He is the son of Henry Fonda, brother of Jane Fonda, and father of Bridget and Justin Fonda...

, Bridget Fonda

Bridget Fonda

Bridget Jane Fonda is an American actress. She is best known for her roles in films such as The Godfather Part III, Single White Female, Point of No Return, It Could Happen to You, and Jackie Brown...

, Paul Reubens

Paul Reubens

Paul Reubens is an American actor, writer, film producer, and comedian, best known for his character Pee-wee Herman. Reubens joined the Los Angeles troupe The Groundlings in the 1970s and started his career as an improvisational comedian and stage actor...

, Billy Bob Thornton

Billy Bob Thornton

Billy Bob Thornton is an American actor, screenwriter, director and musician. Thornton gained early recognition as a cast member on the CBS sitcom Hearts Afire and in several early 1990s films including On Deadly Ground and Tombstone...

, Warren Zevon

Warren Zevon

Warren William Zevon was an American rock singer-songwriter and musician noted for including his sometimes sardonic opinions of life in his musical lyrics, composing songs that were sometimes humorous and often had political or historical themes.Zevon's work has often been praised by well-known...

, and Vince Vaughn

Vince Vaughn

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.

Track listing

1. "Words" (Dwight Yoakam) - 5:21
2. "[Old Friend]" performed by Joe Unger
   Joe Unger
   Joseph 'Joe' Unger is an American actor who has starred in many films and on television. He is best known for his role in the 1984 horror hit film A Nightmare on Elm Street as Sgt...
   
    - :51
3. "Who at the Door Is Standing" [with Bekka Bramlett] (M.B.C. Slade, A.B. Everett) - 2:31
4. "[Good Afternoon]" performed by Vince Vaughn and Yoakam - :30
5. "Tears for Two" (Yoakam, Holly Lamar
   Holly Lamar
   Holly Lamar is an American country music singer-songwriter. Lamar co-wrote "Breathe," a number one country and adult contemporary single by Faith Hill. Her songs have also been recorded by Sara Evans, Wynonna Judd, Lonestar, Tim McGraw, Jo Dee Messina and Jessica Simpson, among others.In 2002,...
   
   ) - 3:23
6. "[Ma'am]" performed by Audrey Lowe and Luke Askew - :41
7. "The Darkest Hour" (Traditional) - 3:28
8. "[When You Was Shot]" performed by Natalie Canerday
   Natalie Canerday
   Natalie Suzanne Canerday is an American actress.Canerday is a native of Russellville, Arkansas. After attending Hendrix College , she began her motion picture career as a production secretary for the television feature The Tuskegee Airmen, then made minor appearances in films such as...
   
    and Otto Felix
   Otto Felix
   Otto Felix was a motion picture and television actor, an acting teacher and a still photographer.Raised in Pennsylvania, and a graduate of Fishburne Military School, Waynesboro, Virginia, then he served in the U.S. Army, and worked as a disc jockey in Florida, before beginning an acting career...
   
    - :15
9. "The First Thing Smokin'" (Yoakam, Billy Gibbons
   Billy Gibbons
   William Frederick "Billy" Gibbons is an American musician, actor and car customizer, best known as the guitarist of the Texas blues-rock band ZZ Top. He is also the lead singer and composer for many of the band's songs. Gibbons is known for playing his Gretsch Billy Bo guitar and his famous 1959...
   
   ) - 3:40
10. "[How Long Was It?]" performed by Terry McIlvaine and Billy Bob Thornton - :10
11. "What's Left of Me" (Yoakam, Mick Jagger
    Mick Jagger
    Sir Michael Philip "Mick" Jagger is an English musician, singer and songwriter, best known as the lead vocalist and a founding member of The Rolling Stones....
    
    ) - 4:55
12. "[All Anybody Can Do]" performed by Bridget Fonda - :07
13. "Somewhere" (Yoakam) - 3:48
14. "[A Lotta Good People]" performed by Bo Hopkins
    Bo Hopkins
    Bo Hopkins is an American actor.-Career:Hopkins has appeared in more than one hundred film and television roles in a career of more than forty years, including The Bridge at Remagen, The Wild Bunch, The Getaway, American Graffiti, White Lightning, Radioland Murders, The Killer Elite, Midnight...
    
     - :11
15. "The Last Surrender" (Yoakam) - 2:44
16. "[Show 'Em Your Badge]" performed by Yoakam, Joe Unger, and Terry McIlvaine - :23
17. "No Future in Sight" (Yoakam) - 7:07
18. "[Existence]" performed by Vince Vaughn and Yoakam - :40
19. "It Is Well with My Soul" (Horatio Spafford
    Horatio Spafford
    Horatio Gates Spafford was a prominent American lawyer, best known for penning the Christian hymn It Is Well With My Soul, following a family tragedy in which four of his daughters died....
    
    , Philip Bliss
    Philip Bliss
    Philip Paul Bliss was an American composer, conductor, bass-baritone writer of hymns and a Gospel singer. He wrote many well-known hymns, including Almost Persuaded, Hallelujah, What a Saviour!, Let the Lower Lights Be Burning, Wonderful Words of Life, and the tune for Horatio Spafford's It Is...
    
    ) - 3:25
20. "Words" [instrumental performed by Lee Thornberg] (Yoakam) - 4:47

Chart performance

Chart (2001)	Peak position
U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums	59