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This playlist moves between the prison’s restrained routines, the dread of executions, and the tenderness and inexplicable grace that John Coffey brings to the Green Mile. Its instrumental opening centers the film adaptation’s score, while the vocal selections draw on blues, gospel, spirituals, and songs of conscience to echo the story’s Southern setting and its grief-struck humanity.
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20 songs
1
The Green Mile
Thomas Newman · The Green Mile (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
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Coffey on the Mile
Thomas Newman · The Green Mile (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
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Coffey's Hands
Thomas Newman · The Green Mile (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
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Albinoni: Adagio in G Minor
Tomaso Albinoni · Albinoni: Adagio in G Minor
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Arrival of the Birds
The Cinematic Orchestra · The Crimson Wing: Mystery of the Flamingos (Original Soundtrack)
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Music For A Found Harmonium
Penguin Cafe Orchestra · Preludes, Airs And Yodels (A Penguin Cafe Primer)
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Cheek to Cheek
Fred Astaire · The Great American Songbook
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Swing Low (Sweet Chariot)
Etta James · Blowin' In the Wind - The Gospel Soul of Etta James
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Trouble so Hard - Remastered 2024
Vera Hall · Trouble so Hard (Remastered 2024)
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I Shall Be Released - Remastered 2000
The Band · Music From Big Pink (Remastered)
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Wayfaring Stranger
Johnny Cash · American III: Solitary Man
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Dark Was the Night, Cold Was the Ground
Blind Willie Johnson · Dark Was The Night (Mojo Workin'- Blues For The Next Generation)
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Death Letter Blues
Son House · The Original Delta Blues (Mojo Workin': Blues For The Next Generation)
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Strange Fruit
Billie Holiday · Songs for Lovers
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I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free
Nina Simone · Silk & Soul (Expanded Edition)
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God's Gonna Cut You Down
Johnny Cash · American V: A Hundred Highways
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A Meaningful Moment Through a Meaning(less) Process
Stars Of The Lid · And Their Refinement of the Decline
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The Things I Tell You
Biosphere · Substrata + Man with a Movie Camera
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Weightless
Marconi Union · The Ambient Zone Just Music Cafe Vol 4
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