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The Lone Ranger (Original Motion Picture Score) is the film score for the Walt Disney Pictures film, The Lone Ranger by Hans Zimmer, released on CD and digital download on July 2, 2013 by Walt Disney Records. The physical release was in association with Intrada Records.

Walt Disney Records also released a separate soundtrack and concept album titled, The Lone Ranger: Wanted (Music Inspired by the Film) by various artists on July 2.

The Lone Ranger (Original Motion Picture Score)

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The Lone Ranger (Original Motion Picture Score)
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Film score by
Released July 2, 2013
Length 49:36
Label Walt Disney

Originally, Jack White was hired to compose the score for the film. White however, declined, and was replaced with Hans Zimmer.

All music composed by Hans Zimmer excluding "Red's Theater of the Absurd", which was written by Jack White and "Finale", which is an extended arrangement of Gioachino Rossini's "William Tell Overture", with additional material arranged by Geoff Zanelli and Zimmer.

No. Title Length
1. "Never Take Off the Mask"   1:08
2. "Absurdity"   4:58
3. "Silver"   4:00
4. "Ride"   4:17
5. "You've Looked Better"   3:09
6. "Red's Theater of the Absurd" (performed by Pokey LaFarge & The South City Three) 3:02
7. "The Railroad Waits for No One"   3:09
8. "You're Just a Man in a Mask (Lone Ranger Theme)"   4:14
9. "For God & Country"   4:53
10. "Finale"   9:51
11. "Home"   6:55
Total length:
49:36


The Lone Ranger: Wanted (Music Inspired by the Film)

The Lone Ranger: Wanted (Music Inspired by the Film)
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Soundtrack album by
Various artists
Released July 2, 2013
Genre Outlaw country
Length 51:29
Label Walt Disney
Producer
 Professional ratings
Source Rating
San Jose Mercury News 3/5 stars
USA Today 3.5/4 stars

Director Gore Verbinski, who also serves as the album's producer, described the compilation and roster as "...the artists we listened to on the way to set each morning and in the evenings with the dust, like bitter chalk, upon our teeth." Tracks by Grace Potter and The Nocturnals and Lucinda Williams were previewed on Rolling Stone and Billboard weeks before their official release.

No. Title Artist Length
1. "Holy Water"   Ben Kweller 3:33
2. "Devil's Train"   Grace Potter and The Nocturnals 3:28
3. "Poor Paddy on the Railway"   Shane MacGowan 3:06
4. "So Long Gone"   Pete Molinari 3:26
5. "Central and Union"   Sara Watkins 2:58
6. "American Dream"   The White Buffalo 2:57
7. "Lonesome Whistle"   Dave Alvin 4:12
8. "Sweet Betsy from Pike" (Arranged by Johnny Depp, Bruce Witkin) Iggy Pop 4:00
9. "Rattling Bone"   Iron & Wine 4:47
10. "Cowboy"   The Rubens 2:53
11. "Everything but the Truth"   Lucinda Williams 4:02
12. "The Truth Lives On"   The Aggrolites 3:48
13. "Butch's Ballad"   Gomez 5:37
14. "Saddle the Wind"   John Grant 2:42
Total length:
51:29
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