Walk the Line is a Grammy Award-winning soundtrack

Soundtrack

A soundtrack can be recorded music accompanying and synchronized to the images of a motion picture, book, television program or video game; a commercially released soundtrack album of music as featured in the soundtrack of a film or TV show; or the physical area of a film that contains the...

 from the movie Walk the Line

Walk the Line

Walk the Line is a 2005 American biographical drama film directed by James Mangold and based on the early life and career of country music artist Johnny Cash...

released November 15, 2005 by Wind-Up Records

Wind-Up Records

Wind-up Entertainment, Inc. is a record label based in New York City. It was formed in 1997 by Alan Meltzer, former owner of CD One Stop, following his 1996 purchase of Grass Records. Wind-up is currently the largest independently-owned record label in the world...

. There are nine songs performed by Joaquin Phoenix

Joaquin Phoenix

Joaquin Rafael Phoenix , formerly credited as Leaf Phoenix, is an American film actor. He was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico, and his family returned to the continental United States four years later...

, four songs by Reese Witherspoon

Reese Witherspoon

Laura Jeanne Reese Witherspoon , better known as Reese Witherspoon, is an American actress and film producer. Witherspoon landed her first feature role as the female lead in the film The Man in the Moon in 1991; later that year she made her television acting debut, in the cable movie Wildflower...

, one song by Waylon Payne

Waylon Payne

Waylon Payne is an American country singer, songwriter, musician and actor.-Early life:Payne was born in Nashville, Tennessee, the son of guitarist Jody Payne and Grammy Award-winning country singer Sammi Smith. His father became a longtime picker for Willie Nelson; his mother toured with Waylon...

, one song by Johnathan Rice

Johnathan Rice

Johnathan Rice is a Scottish-American singer-songwriter. His first album, Trouble is Real, was released on Reprise Records on April 26, 2005. His follow up, Further North, was released by Reprise on September 11, 2007...

, two songs by Tyler Hilton

Tyler Hilton

Tyler James Hilton is an American singer-songwriter and actor. Hilton began his professional career in music in 2000. Rolling Stone Magazine compared him to his contemporary, Howie Day, while others have compared Hilton to Elton John, both vocally and instrumentally...

, and one song by Shooter Jennings

Shooter Jennings

Waylon Albright "Shooter" Jennings is an American singer-songwriter active in the country music and Southern rock genres as well as making his first foray into psychedelic rock in 2009...

. At the Golden Globe Awards Joaquin Phoenix was awarded the Best Actor - Musical or Comedy and Reese Witherspoon was awarded the Best Actress - Musical or Comedy

Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy

The Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy was first awarded by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association as a separate category in 1950...

, as well as the film won the Best Picture - Musical or Comedy. Joaquin Phoenix and Reese Witherspoon also nominated for Academy Award for Best Actor

Academy Award for Best Actor

Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role is one of the Academy Awards of Merit presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize an actor who has delivered an outstanding performance while working within the film industry...

 and Best Actress

Academy Award for Best Actress

Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role is one of the Academy Awards of merit presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize an actress who has delivered an outstanding performance while working within the film industry...

, which Witherspoon won.

Walk the Line is an enhanced CD which also contains two deleted scenes from the film, Phoenix performing "Rock 'n' Roll Ruby" and Phoenix and Witherspoon together near the scene of "Jackson".

The cover features the two stars in an early publicity still, several of which were created (and later included as bonus postcards in the Collector's Edition DVD).

As of May 17, 2006 the soundtrack was certified platinum by the RIAA with over 1,000,000 copies sold.

On February 11, 2007 this album won a Grammy for Best Compilation Soundtrack Album for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media.

Track listing

1. "Get Rhythm
   Get Rhythm
   "Get Rhythm" is the title of a song written and recorded by American country music singer-songwriter Johnny Cash. It was released in September 1969 as a single.-Content:...
   
   " - Joaquin Phoenix – 2:26
2. "I Walk the Line
   I Walk the Line
   "I Walk the Line" is a song written by Johnny Cash and recorded in 1956. It was performed with the help of Marshall Grant and Luther Perkins, two mechanics that his brother introduced him to following his discharge from the Air Force. Cash and his wife, Vivian, were living in Memphis, Tennessee,...
   
   " - Joaquin Phoenix – 3:20
3. "Wildwood Flower
   Wildwood Flower
   "Wildwood Flower" is an American song, best known through performances and recordings by the Carter Family. However, the song predates them. The original title was "I'll Twine 'Mid the Ringlets"...
   
   " - Reese Witherspoon – 2:31
4. "Lewis Boogie
   Lewis Boogie
   "Lewis Boogie" is the title of a song written by Jerry Lee Lewis in 1958 that is featured in 2005's Walk the Line. It was performed by Waylon Payne in the film and its soundtrack.-Development:...
   
   " - Waylon Payne – 2:01
5. "Ring of Fire
   Ring of Fire (song)
   "Ring of Fire" or "The Ring of Fire" is a country music song popularized by Johnny Cash and co-written by June Carter Cash and Merle Kilgore. The single appears on Cash's 1963 compilation album, Ring of Fire: The Best of Johnny Cash...
   
   " - Joaquin Phoenix – 3:42
6. "You're My Baby" - Johnathan Rice – 2:12
7. "Cry! Cry! Cry!" - Joaquin Phoenix – 2:35
8. "Folsom Prison Blues
   Folsom Prison Blues
   "Folsom Prison Blues" is the title of a song written and recorded by American country music artist Johnny Cash. The song combines elements from two popular folk genres, the train song and the prison song, both of which Cash would continue to use for the rest of his career...
   
   " - Joaquin Phoenix – 2:52
9. "That's All Right" - Tyler Hilton – 1:46
10. "Juke Box Blues
    Juke Box Blues
    "Juke Box Blues" is a country music song written by June Carter Cash's mother, Maybelle Carter and June's sister, Helen Carter. The song was recorded by June Carter Cash, and was one of her few hits...
    
    " - Reese Witherspoon – 2:15
11. "It Ain't Me Babe
    It Ain't Me Babe
    "It Ain't Me Babe" is the title of a 1964 song by Bob Dylan, first included on his album Another Side of Bob Dylan. The song's opening line is allegedly influenced by musicologist/folk-singer John Jacob Niles' composition "Go 'Way From My Window." Niles is referred to by Dylan as an early...
    
    " - Joaquin Phoenix/Reese Witherspoon – 3:05
12. "Home of the Blues
    Home of the Blues
    "Home of the Blues" is a Johnny Cash song about his unhappy childhood. It was recorded over a year after "I Walk the Line" on July 1, 1957 in Memphis, Tennessee. The song was written by Johnny Cash, and Douglas L...
    
    " - Joaquin Phoenix – 2:40
13. "Milk Cow Blues" - Tyler Hilton – 2:19
14. "I'm a Long Way from Home" - Shooter Jennings – 2:15
15. "Cocaine Blues
    Cocaine Blues
    "Cocaine Blues" is a Western Swing song written by T. J. "Red" Arnall, a reworking of the traditional song "Little Sadie". This song was originally recorded by W. A. Nichol's Western Aces on the S & G label, probably in 1947, and by Roy Hogsed and the Rainbow Riders May 25, 1947, at Universal...
    
    " - Joaquin Phoenix – 2:50
16. "Jackson
    Jackson (song)
    "Jackson" is a song, written in 1963 by Jerry Leiber and Billy Edd Wheeler, about a married couple who find that the "fire" has gone out of their relationship...
    
    " - Joaquin Phoenix/Reese Witherspoon – 2:49

Additional tracks

The film also featured a variety of country, rockabilly

Rockabilly

Rockabilly is one of the earliest styles of rock and roll music, dating to the early 1950s.The term rockabilly is a portmanteau of rock and hillbilly, the latter a reference to the country music that contributed strongly to the style's development...

 and traditional scoring. They were not featured on the soundtrack CD.

1. "Engine 143" - The Carter Family
2. "Highway 61 Revisited" - Bob Dylan
3. "Didn't It Rain" - Sister Rosetta Tharpe
   Sister Rosetta Tharpe
   Sister Rosetta Tharpe was an Amercian pioneering gospel singer, songwriter and recording artist who attained great popularity in the 1930s and 1940s with a unique mixture of spiritual lyrics and early rock and roll accompaniment...
   
   
4. "Dark Was the Night, Cold Was the Ground" - Blind Willie Johnson
   Blind Willie Johnson
   "Blind" Willie Johnson was an American singer and guitarist, whose music straddled the border between blues and spirituals....
   
   
5. "Volksmusik Medley" - Hans Glisha Orchestra
6. "I Was There When It Happened" - The Blackwood Brothers
   The Blackwood Brothers
   The Blackwood Brothers Quartet are an eight-time Grammy award-winning American Southern Gospel group. They have been around for 76 years, and were pioneers in the Christian music industry.-Musical career:...
   
   
7. "Try Me One Time" - Willie Nix
8. "Ain't That Right" - Eddie Snow
9. "Boogie Blues" - Earl Peterson
10. "I Miss You Already" - Faron Young
    Faron Young
    Faron Young was an American country music singer and songwriter from the early 1950s into the mid-1980s and one of its most successful and colorful stars...
    
    
11. "Defrost Your Heart" - Charlie Feathers
    Charlie Feathers
    Charles Arthur "Charlie" Feathers was an influential American rockabilly and country music performer.-Biography:...
    
    
12. "Feelin' Good" - Little Junior's Blue Flames
13. "Bop Bop Baby" - Wade and Dick
14. "Rock With My Baby" - Billy Riley
15. "Rock N' Roll Ruby" - Joaquin Phoenix
    Joaquin Phoenix
    Joaquin Rafael Phoenix , formerly credited as Leaf Phoenix, is an American film actor. He was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico, and his family returned to the continental United States four years later...
    
    
16. "Fujiyama Mama" - Wanda Jackson
    Wanda Jackson
    Wanda Lavonne Jackson is an American singer, songwriter, pianist and guitarist who had success in the mid-1950s and 60s as one of the first popular female rockabilly singers and a pioneering rock and roll artist...
    
    
17. "She Wears Red Feathers
    She Wears Red Feathers
    "She Wears Red Feathers" is a popular song written by Bob Merrill in 1952....
    
    " - Guy Mitchell
    Guy Mitchell
    Guy Mitchell, born Albert George Cernik, was an American pop singer, successful in his homeland, the U.K. and Australia...
    
    
18. "Easy Does It" - Lewis LaMedica
19. "Hey Porter" - Joaquin Phoenix
    Joaquin Phoenix
    Joaquin Rafael Phoenix , formerly credited as Leaf Phoenix, is an American film actor. He was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico, and his family returned to the continental United States four years later...
    
    
20. "Candy Man Blues" - Mississippi John Hurt
    Mississippi John Hurt
    John Smith Hurt, better known as Mississippi John Hurt was an American country blues singer and guitarist.Raised in Avalon, Mississippi, Hurt taught himself how to play the guitar around age nine...
    
    
21. "I Got Stripes" - Joaquin Phoenix
    Joaquin Phoenix
    Joaquin Rafael Phoenix , formerly credited as Leaf Phoenix, is an American film actor. He was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico, and his family returned to the continental United States four years later...
    
    
22. "Light of the Night" - Werner Tautz
23. "You Get To Me" - Minnie and the Minuettes
24. "Times a'Wastin'" - Joaquin Phoenix and Reese Witherspoon
25. "Cartoon World"
26. "Ghost Town/Poem For Eva" - Bill Frisell
27. "In the Sweet By and By"
28. "Long Legged Guitar Pickin' Man" - Johnny Cash and June Carter
29. "Rainy Day Women #12 & 35" - Bob Dylan
    Bob Dylan
    Bob Dylan is an American singer-songwriter, musician, poet, film director and painter. He has been a major and profoundly influential figure in popular music and culture for five decades. Much of his most celebrated work dates from the 1960s when he was an informal chronicler and a seemingly...
    
    

Chart performance

Chart (2006)	Peak	Certification (sales)
Australian Albums Chart	2	Platinum (70,000)
Austrian Albums Chart	3
Canadian Albums Chart Canadian Albums Chart The Canadian Albums Chart is the official album sales chart in Canada. It is compiled every Wednesday by U.S.-based music sales tracking company Nielsen Soundscan, and published every Thursday by Jam! Canoe and Billboard, along with its sister charts the Canadian Singles Chart and the Canadian BDS...	4	2x Platinum (200,000)
Danish Albums Chart	39
Dutch Albums Chart	68
French Albums Chart	55
German Albums Chart	12
Swiss Albums Chart	17
U.S. Billboard 200 Billboard 200 The Billboard 200 is a ranking of the 200 highest-selling music albums and EPs in the United States, published weekly by Billboard magazine. It is frequently used to convey the popularity of an artist or groups of artists...	9	Platinum (1,000,000)
U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums	3
U.S. Billboard Top Soundtracks	1
New Zealand Albums Chart	6	Gold (7,500)