The day after I finished my Radical Jewish Culture album, I was hunched over a banjo in my 100 degree room in Brooklyn recording Christmas music- the demo for my first soundtrack. Against all odds, I got the gig, and the result is “Rick,” starring Bill Pullman, directed by Curtiss Clayton, music by Ted Reichman. “Rick” is Curtiss’s directorial debut, but he edited such films as “Drugstore Cowboy,” “My Own Private Idaho,” “To Die For,” and “Buffalo ’66.”
The soundtrack is mostly arrangements of X-Mas carols performed by me on accordion, wurlitzer, tenor banjo, electric guitar, and percussion with John Hollenbeck on drums and marimba and Andy Taub on bass harmonica. Andy engineered at Brooklyn Recording.
“Rick” premiered on September 6, 2003 at the Toronto Film Festival. It is currently available on DVD from the Sundance Channel. It should be easy to find at your local Blockbuster or Hollywood Video.