Cave Captures Stanley Covering Underground

 85-year-old bluegrass legend Ralph Stanley sings Captain Beefheart and Velvet Underground songs on the soundtrack to Lawless.

Nick Cave wrote the screenplay and worked with his Bad Seeds and Grinderman collaborator Warren Ellis to score the movie, which is based on a novel by Matthew Bondurant about a family of bootleggers living in Virginia during the Depression. Cave and Ellis sought a sound that evoked the Thirties era of the movie while also transcending it. MORE HERE