Cue of the Week: “Dee and T”

This week’s music selection is the opening from Emerald, Texas, filmmaker George Adams’ modern-day reinvention of The Wizard of Oz.

In this cue I lay out the instrumental palette of the entire score: acoustic blues guitar, solo strings, drums, and – to use the technical musical term – weird surreal floaty stuff in the background.

As the film plays with the boundaries of the waking world, the music keeps one foot in down-home existence and one in a more dreamlike place.