Jones and her collaborators Jesse Harris and Lee Alexander carried out a clever vision, beating acts like Nouvelle Vague to the punch by several years: they collected standards by Hank Williams and Hoagy Carmichael, wrote new songs that bridged the gaps between the classics, and then recorded the results in a lounge-music style, almost as if they were covering themselves.
During the same period, Pitt spent time both in front of the camera (Oceans 13, The Assassination of Jesse James) and behind it (The Private Lives of Pippa Lee, A Mighty Heart and Tree of Life).