Almost Famous is a soundtrack album to the film of the same name, released in 2000. It was awarded the 2001 Grammy Award for Best Compilation Soundtrack Album for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media.

Almost Famous
Soundtrack album from Almost Famous by Various Artists
Released	September 12, 2000
Genre	Rock
Length	75:09
Label	DreamWorks
Producer	Danny Bramson & Cameron Crowe

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Allmusic	[1]

In May 2021, UMe announced the reissue of the soundtrack as an expanded five CD/seven LP boxed set.[2] It will be the first time all of the music featured in the film will be released in one set.[2]

Track listing

Personnel ("Stillwater")

• Billy Crudup ("Russell Hammond") - lead guitar
• Jason Lee ("Jeff Bebe") - lead singer
• John Fedevich ("Ed Vallencourt") - drums
• Mark Kozelek ("Larry Fellows") - bass guitar

Personnel

• Peter Frampton
• Mike McCready
• Jon Bayless
• Ben Smith
• Gordon Kennedy
• Marti Frederiksen – vocals

Additional music

Other music used in the film[3] did not appear on the soundtrack album. As with the songs in the released soundtrack, they are usually snippets of a minute or less.

• Alvin and the Chipmunks: "The Chipmunk Song (Christmas Don't Be Late)"
• Brenton Wood: "The Oogum Boogum Song"
• The Stooges: "Search and Destroy"
• Black Sabbath: "Paranoid"
• Jethro Tull "Teacher"
• Yes: "Roundabout"
• Joni Mitchell: "River"
• Black Sabbath: "Sweet Leaf"
• Nancy Wilson: "Cabin in the Air"[4]
• Little Feat: "Easy to Slip"
• Raspberries: "Go All the Way"
• Stillwater: "Hour of Need"
• The Guess Who: "Albert Flasher"
• Stillwater: "Love Thing"
• Neil Young and Crazy Horse: "Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere"
• Fleetwood Mac: "Future Games"
• Deep Purple: "Burn"
• Stillwater: "You Had to Be There"
• Blodwyn Pig: "Dear Jill"
• Steely Dan: "Reelin' in the Years"
• MC5: "Looking at You"
• Stillwater: "Love Comes and Goes"
• The Jimi Hendrix Experience: "Voodoo Child (Slight Return)"
• Free: "Wishing Well"
• Buddy Holly and The Crickets: "Peggy Sue" #
• Dr. Hook & The Medicine Show: "The Cover of "Rolling Stone"" #
• Elton John: "Mona Lisas and Mad Hatters"
• Stevie Wonder: "My Cherie Amour"
• Chicago: "Colour My World" #
• Neil Young: "Cortez the Killer" (live recording from the Paramount Theater in Oakland, California on 20 March 1999)
• Led Zeppelin: "The Rain Song"
• Led Zeppelin: "Bron-Yr-Aur"
• Led Zeppelin: "Tangerine"
• Led Zeppelin: "Misty Mountain Hop"
• Stillwater: "Chance Upon You" @
• Pete Droge and Elaine Summers: "Small Time Blues" # Portraying Gram Parsons and Emmylou Harris at the Riot House Hotel

# Sung or performed by a character in the film
@ Only featured in the director's cut, Untitled

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