Red Dead Redemption 2: 6 Interesting Facts About The Game's Soundtrack

#4 Vocalists are not who you'd expect from a "country" soundtrack

D'Angelo

In the video attached to the previous entry, Daniel Lanois was performing with Rhiannon Giddens. If you're not familiar (and I certainly wasn't before I started writing this feature), Giddens is the lead singer and a musician in Carolina Chocolate Drops (I'm not sure if there's supposed to be a "the" in the name - fans, let me know in the comments!), a band Wikipedia describes as a "country, blues and old-time music band." So, essentially, the kind of group you'd expect on the soundtrack for a game like RDR2.

• "Unshaken" by D'Angelo, from the Red Dead Redemption 2 soundtrack

So, who else is performing on here? Let's see... OK, obviously it's not new stuff, but there's some classic Johnny Cash stuff here. Willie Nelson, that makes sense. Josh Homme? The guy from Queens of the Stone Age? Well, that's unusual, but I can see how that sort of fits.

Who else? D'Angelo? Wait... the R&B guy? Nas?! The hip-hop legend who put out Illmatic?! What the heck is going on here?

The variety of musicians on the soundtrack can partly be attributed to the reputation of Lanois, who has worked with a wide array of different styles of artists over the years. It can also be that who wouldn't want to make music for the biggest video game of the year?

I mean, other than Meat Loaf.