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The original score was composed by Carter Burwell, a veteran of all the Coen Brothers ' films.

While the Coens were writing the screenplay they had Kenny Rogers ' " Just Dropped In ( to See What Condition My Condition Was in )", the Gipsy Kings ' cover of " Hotel California ", and several Creedence Clearwater Revival songs in mind.

They asked T-Bone Burnett to pick songs for the soundtrack of the film.

They knew that they wanted different genres of music from different times but, as Joel remembers, " T-Bone even came up with some far-out Henry Mancini and Yma Sumac ".

Burnett was able to secure the rights to the songs by Kenny Rogers and the Gipsy Kings and also added tracks by Captain Beefheart, Moondog and the rights to a relatively obscure Bob Dylan song called " The Man in Me ".

However, he had a tough time securing the rights to Townes Van Zandt's cover of the Rolling Stones ' " Dead Flowers ", which plays over the film's closing credits.

Former Stones manager Allen Klein owned the rights to the song and wanted $ 150, 000 for it.

Burnett convinced Klein to watch an early cut of the film and remembers, " It got to the part where the Dude says, ' I hate the fuckin ' Eagles, man!

' Klein stands up and says, ' That's it, you can have the song!

' That was beautiful ".

Burnett was going to be credited on the film as " Music Supervisor " but asked his credit to be " Music Archivist " because he " hated the notion of being a supervisor ; I wouldn't want anyone to think of me as management ".