6 on Billboard’s Top Country Albums chart for the week ended January 24, No. “It was definitely one of those moments where everyone realized this was supposed to be,” Strang says. Bruton, who died of complications from cancer in May, was a close friend of Strang and Burnett. So did Cameron Strang, founder/president of New West Records, which released the soundtrack January 19. Burnett says he agreed to sign on after a doctor advised him to “only work with people that love you.” Bridges, director Scott Cooper and the late Stephen Bruton, who co-wrote many of the songs and co-produced the soundtrack with Burnett, fit the bill. Jeff Bridges, whose performance as a hard-living, down-on-his-luck country singer already has garnered a number of awards in the lead-up to the Oscars, had passed on the role until he discovered his friend T Bone Burnett would be involved. Jeff Bridges poses with his award for best male actor in a leading role for "Crazy Heart" at the 16th annual Screen Actors Guild Awards in Los Angeles January 23, 2010.
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