Who Did the Soundtrack for O Brother Where Art Thou

2000 soundtrack anthology by various artists

O Brother, Where Art One thousand?
Soundtrack anthology by various artists
Released	December 5, 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 Bone Burnett

O Brother, Where Art Thou? is the soundtrack anthology of music from the 2000 American movie of the same proper noun, written, directed and produced by the Coen Brothers and starring George Clooney, John Turturro, Tim Blake Nelson, and John Goodman.

The film is set in Mississippi during the Slap-up Depression. The soundtrack, produced by T-Bone Burnett, uses bluegrass, country, gospel, blues, and Southern folk music appropriate to the fourth dimension catamenia. With the exception of a few vintage tracks (such as Harry McClintock's 1928 single "Large Rock Processed Mount"), most tracks are mod recordings.

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

Development and sound [edit]

The soundtrack was conceived every bit a major component of the film, not merely as a groundwork or support. For this reason it was decided to record the soundtrack before filming.^[2] T-Bone Burnett and Alan Larman were invited to pattern collections of music.^[3]

Dirges and other macabre songs recurring in Appalachian music,^[iv] such as "O Death", "Lonesome Valley", "Affections Band", and "I Am Weary", announced in the film as a contrast to the vivid, 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 Man of Abiding Sorrow" has five variations: two are used in the film, ane in the music video, and two in the anthology. Two of the variations characteristic the verses being sung dorsum-to-back, and the other three variations characteristic additional music between each verse.^[7] The voices of the Soggy Bottom Boys were provided by Dan Tyminski (pb vocal on "I Am a Human of Constant Sorrow"), Nashville songwriter Harley Allen, and the Nashville Bluegrass Band'due south Pat Enright.^[viii]

Reception and legacy [edit]

Professional ratings

Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	83/100[nine]
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[10]
The Austin Chronicle	[xi]
Amusement Weekly	B+[12]
Pitchfork	viii.3/ten[13]
Q	[14]
Rolling Stone	[fifteen]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide	[16]
Uncut	[17]

O Brother, Where Art Thou? won the Grammy Award for Album of the Yr in 2002, the Grammy Award for Best Country Collaboration with Vocals (for vocaliser Dan Tyminski, whose phonation overdubbed George Clooney'south in the film on "I Am a Man of Constant Sorrow", Nashville songwriter Harley Allen, and the Nashville Bluegrass Band's Pat Enright), and the Grammy Laurels for Best Male person State Vocal Operation for "O, Expiry" past Ralph Stanley.

The album won the Album of the Twelvemonth Honour (only the second soundtrack to ever do and then) and Single of the Year Award for "I Am a Human being of Constant Sorrow" at the Country Music Association Awards.^[eighteen] Information technology besides won the Album of the Year Award at the 37th University of Country Music Awards and took home 2 International Bluegrass Music Awards: Album of the Yr and Gospel Recorded Performance of the Year (for Alison Krauss and Gillian Welch on "I'll Fly Away").^[nineteen]

In 2006, the anthology ranked No. 38 on CMT'southward 40 Greatest Albums in Country Music. In 2009, Rhapsody ranked it No. 8 on the "State'south Best Albums of the Decade" list.^[20] Engine 145 Country Music Web log ranked it No. 5 on the "State's All-time Albums of the Decade" list.^[21] In 2010, All Songs Considered, a program on NPR, included the soundtrack anthology on their list of "The Decade's 50 Near Of import 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 flick, Downward from the Mountain.

On Baronial 23, 2011, a 10th anniversary edition was released featuring a bonus disc with 14 new tracks that were not included in the original album, all but two of which were previously unreleased songs from Burnett'southward original sessions.^{[23] [24]}

Commercial operation [edit]

The album charted at No. 1 on Billboard 200 In 2001, and spent over xx weeks on the Billboard Meridian State Albums Nautical chart. The soundtrack CD became a best seller; it was first certified Gold by the RIAA on Feb 9, 2001, and reached 8 times Platinum by October 10, 2007.^[25] It has sold viii,175,800 copies in the United States as of October 2019.^[26]

Track listing [edit]

No.	Championship	Writer(s)	Artist	Length
1.	"Po' Lazarus"	traditional	James Carter and the Prisoners	iv:31
2.	"Large Rock Candy Mountain"	Harry McClintock	Harry McClintock	2:16
3.	"You Are My Sunshine"	Jimmie Davis, Charles Mitchell	Norman Blake	4:26
4.	"Down to the River to Pray"	traditional	Alison Krauss	ii:55
5.	"I Am a Man of Constant Sorrow" (radio station version)	Dick Burnett	The Soggy Bottom Boys	3:10
half dozen.	"Difficult Fourth dimension Killing Flooring Dejection"	Skip James	Chris Thomas King	2:42
7.	"I Am a Man of Constant Sorrow" (instrumental)	Burnett	Norman Blake	iv:28
8.	"Keep 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
10.	"Didn't Exit Nobody but the Baby"	traditional	Emmylou Harris, Alison Krauss, Gillian Welch	1:57
11.	"In the Highways"	Maybelle Carter	The Peasall Sisters	1:35
12.	"I Am Weary (Let Me Rest)"	Pete Roberts (Pete Kuykendall)	The Cox Family	3:thirteen
13.	"I Am a Man of Constant Sorrow" (instrumental)	Ed Haley	John Hartford	2:34
xiv.	"O Expiry"	Lloyd Chandler	Ralph Stanley	3:nineteen
15.	"In the Jailhouse Now"	Blind Blake, Jimmie Rodgers	The Soggy Bottom Boys	3:34
16.	"I Am a Man of Constant Sorrow" (with band)	Burnett	The Soggy Bottom Boys	4:xvi
17.	"Indian War Whoop" (instrumental)	Hoyt Ming	John Hartford	one:30
18.	"Lonesome Valley"	traditional	The Fairfield 4	iv:07
nineteen.	"Angel Band"	traditional	The Stanley Brothers	two:15
Total length:				threescore:18

10th Anniversary Deluxe Edition bonus disc

No.	Title	Artist	Length
1.	"Hard Fourth dimension Killing Flooring Blues"	Colin Linden	1:fifteen
two.	"Yous Are My Sunshine"	Alan O'Bryant	3:29
iii.	"Tishomingo Blues"	John Hartford	two:01
4.	"I'll Wing Away"	The Kossoy Sisters with Erik Darling	ii:32
5.	"Big Rock Processed Mountain"	Van Dyke Parks	1:42
6.	"Tom Devil"	Ed Lewis & The Prisoners	v:19
seven.	"Keep On The Sunny Side"	The Cox Family	two:36
viii.	"Affections Band"	Hannah, Leah, Sarah Peasall and Robert Hamlett	0:58
nine.	"Big Stone Candy Mountain"	Norman Blake	two:xviii
x.	"Niggling Sadie"	Norman Blake	1:l
11.	"In the Highways"	The Cox Family	ii:12
12.	"Hogfoot"	John Hartford	three:47
thirteen.	"The Lord Will Make A Fashion"	The Fairfield 4	2:36
14.	"In The Jailhouse Now"	Harley Allen	iii:05
Total length:			35:xl

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-league – Mandolin Emmylou Harris – Performer John Hartford – Fiddle, 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 Block – 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, pb

James Loma – 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 One thousand. Oermann – Liner notes Sam Phillips – Vocals Gillian Welch – Arranger, vocals Dub Cornett – Vocals Chris Thomas King – Guitar, vocals David Rawlings – Vocals Gavin Lurssen – Mastering Mike Piersante – Mixing Peter Kurland – Location recording First Baptist Church building of Norfolk Choir – Vocals Chris Sharp – Guitar Nathaniel Best – Lead 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 backup vocals James Carter and The Prisoners – Performers Alan Larman – Musicologist

Chart operation [edit]

Weekly charts [edit] Chart (2000–2002) Summit position Australian Albums (ARIA)[27] 15 Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria)[28] seventy Canadian Albums (Billboard)[29] 3 French Albums (SNEP)[thirty] 9 German Albums (Offizielle Pinnacle 100)[31] 87 New Zealand Albums (RMNZ)[32] fourteen US Billboard 200[33] ane US Summit Country Albums (Billboard)[34] one US Soundtrack Albums (Billboard)[35] 1

Twelvemonth-cease charts [edit] Year-end chart operation for O Blood brother, Where Art Thou? Nautical chart (2001) Position Canadian Albums (Nilsen Soundscan) [36] 31 Canadian Country Albums (Nielsen Soundscan)[37] 2 US Billboard 200[38] 23 Usa Meridian State Albums (Billboard)[39] 2 US Soundtrack Albums (Billboard)[40] 1 Chart (2002) Position Canadian Albums (Nielsen Soundscan)[41] 19 Canadian Country Albums (Nielsen Soundscan)[42] three The states Billboard 200[43] 6 Usa Pinnacle Country Albums (Billboard)[44] ane US Soundtrack Albums (Billboard)[45] i Nautical chart (2003) Position Us Soundtrack Albums (Billboard)[46] eleven Chart (2004) Position U.s. Soundtrack Albums (Billboard)[47] 14 Nautical chart (2013) Position U.s. Soundtrack Albums (Billboard)[48] 25 Chart (2014) Position US Soundtrack Albums (Billboard)[49] 24 Nautical chart (2015) Position US Soundtrack Albums (Billboard)[50] 22 Nautical chart (2016) Position Usa Soundtrack Albums (Billboard)[51] 21 Nautical chart (2017) Position US Soundtrack Albums (Billboard)[52] 25

Certifications [edit]

Meet as well [edit]

• Down from the Mount

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External links [edit]

• Official website
• BBC News: O Blood brother, why art g and then popular?

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