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Desperado: The Soundtrack is the film score to Robert Rodriguez’s Desperado. It was written and performed by the Los Angeles rock bands Los Lobos and Tito & Tarantula, performing traditional Ranchera and Chicano rock music. Other artists on the soundtrack album include Dire Straits, Link Wray, Latin Playboys, and Carlos Santana.
Diana Krall covered the song on her twelfth studio album Wallflower (2015) and it was released as a single in September 2014. [28] The song debuted on Billboard ' s Jazz Digital Songs chart at No. 3. [29] Alisan Porter performed the song as a competitor in the tenth season of The Voice TV series. Her version charted at No. 24 on Digital Songs. [30]
Desperado is a 1995 American neo-Western action film written, co-produced, edited and directed by Robert Rodriguez. It is the second part of Rodriguez's Mexico Trilogy . It stars Antonio Banderas as El Mariachi who seeks revenge on the drug lord who killed his lover.
The song is also the theme song of the series. Tito had met Rodriguez when filming Desperado. During the mixing of the film, Tito was playing a previously written song, that happened to be about vampires, which caught the ear of Rodriguez. Rodriguez mentioned that his next film was about vampires, and asked if he could videotape the song ...
The songs on Desperado are based on the themes of the Old West. The band members are featured on the album's cover dressed like an outlaw gang; Desperado remains the only Eagles album where the band members appear on the front cover. Although the title track is one of the Eagles' signature songs, it was never released as a single.
The song is one of the best-known recordings by the band, and in 1998 its long guitar coda was voted the best guitar solo of all time by readers of Guitarist. [2] [8] The song was awarded the Grammy Award for Record of the Year in 1978. [9] The meaning of the lyrics of the song has been discussed by fans and critics ever since its release.
The first TV movie was originally intended to serve as the pilot for a weekly TV series, but the series did not materialize, and the film instead had four TV movie sequels, also starring McArthur as McCall. [3] The title was inspired by the 1973 Eagles song Desperado, which also served as the theme music for the series, performed by Don Henley. [4]
Bingham wrote the song for the film, and it was released as part of the film's original soundtrack in April 2014. [36] [37] In the same year, Bingham also wrote and recorded "Until I'm One With You", the theme song for FX TV drama series The Bridge. The song is Bingham's first screen track since his Academy Award win for best theme song in 2010.