"Just four months after releasing the studio version of Western Stars, now comes the soundtrack to the cinematic film version recorded live in Bruces own nearly 100-year-old barn and interspersed with assorted footage of horses running free or Bruce driving a pickup, vintage film of him and Patty Scialfa and the like. It's the same songs, performed in the same order, but this time with a 30-piece orchestra, full band and assorted backing singers, among them Scialfa who also plays guitar and was responsible for the vocal arrangements ... A complement to the studio album rather than a reinterpretation, which I suspect will better stand repeated plays in the years to come, nonetheless, it is, after all, a Springsteen live album and that will be as a good a reason as any to add to the collection".