| Blues Brothers 2000: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack | |
| Type: | soundtrack |
| Artist: | various artists |
| Cover: | Bluesbrothers2000soundtrack.jpg |
| Released: | February 3, 1998 |
| Recorded: | 1997 |
| Length: | 60:29 |
| Label: | Uptown/Universal |
| Producer: | Paul Shaffer |
| Prev Year: | 1997 |
| Next Title: | The Blues Brothers Complete |
| Next Year: | 2000 |
Blues Brothers 2000: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack is a soundtrack album that features the Blues Brothers. It is a soundtrack album to the 1998 film, Blues Brothers 2000, the sequel to the 1980 film, The Blues Brothers.
In addition to tracks by the Blues Brothers Band performed with guest artists such as Aretha Franklin, James Brown, Dr. John, Lonnie Brooks, Junior Wells, Eddie Floyd and Wilson Pickett, there are songs by the Paul Butterfield Blues Band and Blues Traveler as well as an all-star blues supergroup, the Louisiana Gator Boys, featuring B.B. King, Eric Clapton, Bo Diddley, Charlie Musselwhite, Travis Tritt, Doctor John, Lou Rawls, Koko Taylor, Isaac Hayes, Billy Preston and other artists.
This is the first official Blues Brothers release to feature John Goodman, although his first performance as a member of the group occurred at the House of Blues in Los Angeles in 1995.[1]
In addition to the soundtrack, there are songs that appear in the film as background music that do not feature on the soundtrack. They include: