What Kind of Music Is in Oh Brother Where Art Thou

2000 soundtrack album by various artists

O Blood brother, Where Fine art One thousand?
Soundtrack album by various artists
Released	December five, 2000 (2000-12-05)
Recorded	(modern tracks) Spring 1999
Studio	Sound Emporium, Nashville
Genre	Country folk bluegrass blues gospel Americana soundtrack
Length	61:24
Label	Lost Highway/Mercury
Producer	T Os Burnett

O Brother, Where Fine art Thousand? is the soundtrack album of music from the 2000 American flick of the same proper name, written, directed and produced past the Coen Brothers and starring George Clooney, John Turturro, Tim Blake Nelson, and John Goodman.

The movie is set in Mississippi during the Swell Depression. The soundtrack, produced by T-Bone Burnett, uses bluegrass, country, gospel, dejection, and Southern folk music appropriate to the time flow. With the exception of a few vintage tracks (such as Harry McClintock's 1928 single "Big Rock Candy Mount"), most tracks are modernistic recordings.

The soundtrack was reissued on August 23, 2011, with 14 new tracks that were non included in the original anthology, "including 12 previously unreleased cuts from music producer T-Bone Burnett'south O Brother sessions."^[1]

Development and sound [edit]

The soundtrack was conceived as a major component of the motion-picture show, not merely as a background or support. For this reason it was decided to record the soundtrack earlier filming.^[ii] T-Os Burnett and Alan Larman were invited to blueprint collections of music.^[iii]

Dirges and other macabre songs recurring in Appalachian music,^[4] such as "O Death", "Lonesome Valley", "Angel Ring", and "I Am Weary", appear in the motion picture as a dissimilarity to the brilliant, cheerful songs like "Keep On the Sunnyside" and "In the Highways". Ralph Stanley of The Stanley Brothers personally recorded the a cappella folk song "O Death".^{[5] [6]}

"I Am a Human of Constant Sorrow" has five variations: 2 are used in the film, one in the music video, and two in the album. Two of the variations feature the verses being sung back-to-back, and the other three variations feature additional music between each verse.^[7] The voices of the Soggy Bottom Boys were provided by Dan Tyminski (lead song on "I Am a Human of Constant Sorrow"), Nashville songwriter Harley Allen, and the Nashville Bluegrass Band's Pat Enright.^[8]

Reception and legacy [edit]

Professional ratings

Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	83/100[9]
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[10]
The Austin Chronicle	[xi]
Entertainment Weekly	B+[12]
Pitchfork	eight.three/10[xiii]
Q	[14]
Rolling Stone	[xv]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide	[sixteen]
Uncut	[17]

O Brother, Where Art M? won the Grammy Honor for Album of the Yr in 2002, the Grammy Award for Best Land Collaboration with Vocals (for singer Dan Tyminski, whose voice overdubbed George Clooney's in the motion picture on "I Am a Man of Constant Sorrow", Nashville songwriter Harley Allen, and the Nashville Bluegrass Band'southward Pat Enright), and the Grammy Award for Best Male Country Song Performance for "O, Death" by Ralph Stanley.

The album won the Anthology of the Year Honor (simply the 2nd soundtrack to ever do so) and Single of the Year Honour for "I Am a Man of Abiding Sorrow" at the State Music Clan Awards.^[18] It also won the Anthology of the Yr Accolade at the 37th University of Land Music Awards and took home 2 International Bluegrass Music Awards: Album of the Year and Gospel Recorded Performance of the Year (for Alison Krauss and Gillian Welch on "I'll Fly Abroad").^[xix]

In 2006, the anthology ranked No. 38 on CMT'south forty Greatest Albums in Country Music. In 2009, Rhapsody ranked it No. 8 on the "State's Best Albums of the Decade" listing.^[twenty] Engine 145 Land Music Web log ranked it No. 5 on the "State'south Best Albums of the Decade" list.^[21] In 2010, All Songs Considered, a plan on NPR, included the soundtrack anthology on their list of "The Decade's 50 Most Important Recordings".^[22]

Some of the artists on the soundtrack album played a concert at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, Tennessee, which was recorded in the 2000 documentary pic, Downward from the Mount.

On August 23, 2011, a 10th anniversary edition was released featuring a bonus disc with xiv new tracks that were non included in the original album, all but ii of which were previously unreleased songs from Burnett'south original sessions.^{[23] [24]}

Commercial performance [edit]

The album charted at No. 1 on Billboard 200 In 2001, and spent over 20 weeks on the Billboard Top Land Albums Nautical chart. The soundtrack CD became a best seller; it was starting time certified Gold by the RIAA on February 9, 2001, and reached viii times Platinum by October ten, 2007.^[25] Information technology has sold 8,175,800 copies in the United states every bit of Oct 2019.^[26]

Track list [edit]

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Artist	Length
ane.	"Po' Lazarus"	traditional	James Carter and the Prisoners	iv:31
2.	"Big Rock Candy Mount"	Harry McClintock	Harry McClintock	two:16
3.	"You Are My Sunshine"	Jimmie Davis, Charles Mitchell	Norman Blake	4:26
4.	"Down to the River to Pray"	traditional	Alison Krauss	2:55
5.	"I Am a Man of Constant Sorrow" (radio station version)	Dick Burnett	The Soggy Lesser Boys	three:x
6.	"Hard Time Killing Flooring Blues"	Skip James	Chris Thomas King	2:42
vii.	"I Am a Human being of Constant Sorrow" (instrumental)	Burnett	Norman Blake	iv:28
eight.	"Proceed On the Sunny Side"	Ada Blenkhorn, J. Howard Entwisle	The Whites	3:33
9.	"I'll Fly Away"	Albert E. Brumley	Alison Krauss, Gillian Welch	3:57
ten.	"Didn't Go out Nobody but the Baby"	traditional	Emmylou Harris, Alison Krauss, Gillian Welch	i:57
eleven.	"In the Highways"	Maybelle Carter	The Peasall Sisters	one:35
12.	"I Am Weary (Let Me Residual)"	Pete Roberts (Pete Kuykendall)	The Cox Family	3:13
xiii.	"I Am a Human being of Abiding Sorrow" (instrumental)	Ed Haley	John Hartford	2:34
fourteen.	"O Death"	Lloyd Chandler	Ralph Stanley	three:19
15.	"In the Jailhouse Now"	Bullheaded Blake, Jimmie Rodgers	The Soggy Lesser Boys	3:34
16.	"I Am a Man of Abiding Sorrow" (with band)	Burnett	The Soggy Bottom Boys	iv:xvi
17.	"Indian War Whoop" (instrumental)	Hoyt Ming	John Hartford	1:xxx
18.	"Lonesome Valley"	traditional	The Fairfield Four	four:07
19.	"Affections Ring"	traditional	The Stanley Brothers	two:fifteen
Total length:				60:18

10th Anniversary Deluxe Edition bonus disc

No.	Title	Artist	Length
1.	"Hard Time Killing Flooring Blues"	Colin Linden	1:fifteen
2.	"Yous Are My Sunshine"	Alan O'Bryant	3:29
3.	"Tishomingo Dejection"	John Hartford	2:01
iv.	"I'll Fly Away"	The Kossoy Sisters with Erik Darling	2:32
5.	"Large Stone Candy Mountain"	Van Dyke Parks	one:42
vi.	"Tom Devil"	Ed Lewis & The Prisoners	5:19
7.	"Keep On The Sunny Side"	The Cox Family	2:36
8.	"Angel Band"	Hannah, Leah, Sarah Peasall and Robert Hamlett	0:58
9.	"Big Rock Candy Mountain"	Norman Blake	two:18
x.	"Piddling Sadie"	Norman Blake	1:50
11.	"In the Highways"	The Cox Family	2:12
12.	"Hogfoot"	John Hartford	3:47
13.	"The Lord Will Make A Way"	The Fairfield 4	ii:36
14.	"In The Jailhouse Now"	Harley Allen	three:05
Total length:			35:forty

Personnel [edit]

Norman Blake – Performer, guitar, vocals Jerry Douglas – Dobro Alison Krauss – Vocals, harmony vocals Chris Sharp – Rhythm guitar The Stanley Brothers – Performers Ralph Stanley – Performer Sam Bush – Mandolin Emmylou Harris – Performer John Hartford – Dabble, vocals The Fairfield Four – Performer Ed Haley – Arranger The Whites: Buck White – Mandolin, vocals, harmony vocals Cheryl White – Bass, Vocals, harmony vocals Sharon White – Guitar, vocals Mike Compton – Guitar, mandolin Alan Lomax – Arranger Harley Allen – Vocals, harmony vocals Barry Bales – Bass Ron Cake – Banjo Curtis Burch – Dobro T Bone Burnett – Arranger, producer The Cox Family: Evelyn Cox – Guitar Sidney Cox – Banjo, vocals, harmony vocals Suzanne Cox – Mandolin, vocals Willard Cox – Vocals, harmony vocals Stuart Duncan – Fiddle Pat Enright – Vocals, harmony vocals, yodeling Isaac Freeman – Bass, vocals, lead

James Colina – Vocals Harry McClintock – Performer Tim O'Brien – Vocals Maura O'Connell – Vocals Carter Stanley – Arranger Dan Tyminski – Guitar, vocals Wilson Waters – Tenor sax, vocals Robert M. Oermann – Liner notes Sam Phillips – Vocals Gillian Welch – Arranger, vocals Dub Cornett – Vocals Chris Thomas Rex – Guitar, vocals David Rawlings – Vocals Gavin Lurssen – Mastering Mike Piersante – Mixing Peter Kurland – Location recording First Baptist Church of Norfolk Choir – Vocals Chris Precipitous – Guitar Nathaniel Best – Pb Robert Hamlett – Vocals Joseph Rice – Vocals The Peasall Sisters Sarah Peasall – Alto vocal, guitar, harmony vocals Hannah Peasall – Soprano vocal, mandolin Leah Peasall – Tenor vocal, violin, harmony vocals The Soggy Bottom Boys – Performer Tim Blake Nelson – Vocals, performer Porter McClister – Tenor fill-in vocals James Carter and The Prisoners – Performers Alan Larman – Musicologist

Nautical chart operation [edit]

Weekly charts [edit] Nautical chart (2000–2002) Tiptop position Australian Albums (ARIA)[27] fifteen Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria)[28] 70 Canadian Albums (Billboard)[29] 3 French Albums (SNEP)[thirty] 9 German Albums (Offizielle Superlative 100)[31] 87 New Zealand Albums (RMNZ)[32] fourteen US Billboard 200[33] 1 US Meridian Country Albums (Billboard)[34] one US Soundtrack Albums (Billboard)[35] 1

Year-finish charts [edit] Year-end chart performance for O Blood brother, Where Fine art Grand? Nautical chart (2001) Position Canadian Albums (Nilsen Soundscan) [36] 31 Canadian Land Albums (Nielsen Soundscan)[37] 2 Us Billboard 200[38] 23 United states Top State Albums (Billboard)[39] 2 United states Soundtrack Albums (Billboard)[xl] 1 Nautical chart (2002) Position Canadian Albums (Nielsen Soundscan)[41] 19 Canadian Land Albums (Nielsen Soundscan)[42] 3 US Billboard 200[43] 6 US Top Country Albums (Billboard)[44] 1 US Soundtrack Albums (Billboard)[45] i Nautical chart (2003) Position US Soundtrack Albums (Billboard)[46] 11 Nautical chart (2004) Position United states of america Soundtrack Albums (Billboard)[47] xiv Chart (2013) Position US Soundtrack Albums (Billboard)[48] 25 Chart (2014) Position United states Soundtrack Albums (Billboard)[49] 24 Chart (2015) Position US Soundtrack Albums (Billboard)[50] 22 Nautical chart (2016) Position United states Soundtrack Albums (Billboard)[51] 21 Chart (2017) Position US Soundtrack Albums (Billboard)[52] 25

Certifications [edit]

Run across also [edit]

• Downwards from the Mountain

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External links [edit]

• Official website
• BBC News: O Brother, why art thou so popular?

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