Brokeback Mountain’s original soundtrack (2005) won an Oscar for best original musical score. The music included mostly country selections and, among them was “King of the Road” which was first written and performed by Roger Miller in 1964.
For this movie, it was done as a duet with Teddy Thompson a 36 year old British folk and rock singer along with Rufus Wainwright a 39 year old American singer/songwriter. Thompson also has a solo performance on the same album. —Paul Goldfinger