Thank You for Smoking

Artist	Original Soundtrack
Format	CD
Genre	Soundtrack
Label Name	Lakeshore
Release Date	2006 04 18
Song List	1: Smoke, Smoke, Smoke That Cigarette! (2:54) 2: Smoke Rings (2:55) 3: Greenback Dollar (2:52) 4: Little Organ Fugue (2:23) 5: Smoke Gets in Your Eyes (2:40) 6: Three Cigarettes in an Ashtray (2:16) 7: Cigarettes and Whiskey (2:02) 8: Cigarettes and Coffee (3:52) 9: Another Puff (4:06) 10: Intro & Tobacco One (3:02) 11: Donate It & Sex Back in Cigarettes (3:01) 12: Joey & Drums of Doom (2:59) 13: Spanish Epilogue Revisited (3:00)
Style.Categories	Folk Revival, Traditional Pop, Original Score, Country Boogie, Soundtracks, Honky Tonk, Vocal Pop, Western Swing, Nostalgia

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The soundtrack for first-time director Jason Reitman's satire of Big Tobacco spin plays like an amiable, city slicker sequel to O Brother, Where Art Thou?. Tex Williams' western swing standard "Smoke, Smoke, Smoke That Cigarette!" kicks things off with a mischievous grin, laying the groundwork for classics from Patsy Cline ("Three Cigarettes in an Ashtray"), Otis Redding ("Cigarettes and Coffee"), the Mills Brothers ("Smoke Rings"), and the Platters ("Smoke Gets in Your Eyes"). The thread is obvious, but the selections sound handpicked rather than researched solely on the basis of their subject matter. Composer Rolfe Kent, who brought such an excellent sense of place to 2004's Sideways, manages to echo the hipster swing of the Mancini-era '60s without sounding regressive, providing Thank You for Smoking with a cheerful brevity that keeps the spin more balanced than fair. ~ James Christopher Monger, All Music Guide