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2000 soundtrack anthology past various artists

O Brother, Where Art K?
Soundtrack album by various artists
Released	December 5, 2000 (2000-12-05)
Recorded	(modernistic 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 Blood brother, Where Art M? is the soundtrack anthology of music from the 2000 American flick of the aforementioned name, written, directed and produced by the Coen Brothers and starring George Clooney, John Turturro, Tim Blake Nelson, and John Goodman.

The film is gear up in Mississippi during the Great Depression. The soundtrack, produced by T-Bone Burnett, uses bluegrass, state, gospel, blues, and Southern folk music appropriate to the time period. With the exception of a few vintage tracks (such as Harry McClintock's 1928 single "Big Stone Processed Mount"), most tracks are modern 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-Os Burnett's O Brother sessions."^[1]

Development and sound [edit]

The soundtrack was conceived as a major component of the moving picture, non merely as a background 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,^[4] such as "O Death", "Lonesome Valley", "Angel Band", and "I Am Weary", appear in the film as a contrast to the bright, 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 Expiry".^{[5] [6]}

"I Am a Man of Abiding Sorrow" has five variations: two are used in the motion picture, ane in the music video, and two in the album. Two of the variations feature the verses beingness sung back-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 (lead vocal 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[nine]
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[ten]
The Austin Relate	[11]
Entertainment Weekly	B+[12]
Pitchfork	8.3/10[13]
Q	[14]
Rolling Stone	[15]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide	[sixteen]
Uncut	[17]

O Brother, Where Fine art Thou? won the Grammy Honor for Album of the Twelvemonth in 2002, the Grammy Award for Best Country Collaboration with Vocals (for vocalizer Dan Tyminski, whose phonation overdubbed George Clooney's in the movie on "I Am a Man of Abiding Sorrow", Nashville songwriter Harley Allen, and the Nashville Bluegrass Band's Pat Enright), and the Grammy Honour for Best Male Country Vocal Performance for "O, Death" by Ralph Stanley.

The album won the Album of the Year Award (only the second soundtrack to e'er do so) and Unmarried of the Yr Honour for "I Am a Human of Constant Sorrow" at the Country Music Clan Awards.^[xviii] It likewise won the Anthology of the Yr Award at the 37th Academy of Land Music Awards and took dwelling two International Bluegrass Music Awards: Anthology of the Twelvemonth and Gospel Recorded Performance of the Year (for Alison Krauss and Gillian Welch on "I'll Fly Away").^[19]

In 2006, the album ranked No. 38 on CMT's twoscore Greatest Albums in Land Music. In 2009, Rhapsody ranked it No. viii on the "Land'south All-time Albums of the Decade" listing.^[20] Engine 145 Country Music Blog ranked it No. 5 on the "Country'southward Best Albums of the Decade" list.^[21] In 2010, All Songs Considered, a program on NPR, included the soundtrack album on their list of "The Decade's 50 Virtually 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 moving picture, Downwardly from the Mount.

On August 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 only two 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 Meridian Land Albums Chart. The soundtrack CD became a best seller; it was offset certified Gold by the RIAA on Feb ix, 2001, and reached viii times Platinum by October 10, 2007.^[25] It has sold 8,175,800 copies in the United States as of October 2019.^[26]

Track listing [edit]

No.	Title	Author(s)	Creative person	Length
1.	"Po' Lazarus"	traditional	James Carter and the Prisoners	4:31
two.	"Large Rock Candy Mountain"	Harry McClintock	Harry McClintock	2:sixteen
3.	"You Are My Sunshine"	Jimmie Davis, Charles Mitchell	Norman Blake	4:26
four.	"Down to the River to Pray"	traditional	Alison Krauss	2:55
v.	"I Am a Man of Abiding Sorrow" (radio station version)	Dick Burnett	The Soggy Bottom Boys	3:x
six.	"Difficult Time Killing Floor Blues"	Skip James	Chris Thomas Rex	ii:42
vii.	"I Am a Human being of Constant Sorrow" (instrumental)	Burnett	Norman Blake	4:28
8.	"Keep On the Sunny Side"	Ada Blenkhorn, J. Howard Entwisle	The Whites	3:33
ix.	"I'll Fly Away"	Albert East. Brumley	Alison Krauss, Gillian Welch	three:57
10.	"Didn't Leave Nobody but the Infant"	traditional	Emmylou Harris, Alison Krauss, Gillian Welch	1:57
11.	"In the Highways"	Maybelle Carter	The Peasall Sisters	ane:35
12.	"I Am Weary (Let Me Residue)"	Pete Roberts (Pete Kuykendall)	The Cox Family unit	3:xiii
xiii.	"I Am a Man of Abiding Sorrow" (instrumental)	Ed Haley	John Hartford	two:34
14.	"O Death"	Lloyd Chandler	Ralph Stanley	iii:nineteen
15.	"In the Jailhouse Now"	Blind Blake, Jimmie Rodgers	The Soggy Lesser Boys	3:34
sixteen.	"I Am a Human of Constant Sorrow" (with band)	Burnett	The Soggy Bottom Boys	4:16
17.	"Indian War Whoop" (instrumental)	Hoyt Ming	John Hartford	i:30
xviii.	"Lonesome Valley"	traditional	The Fairfield Iv	4:07
19.	"Angel Ring"	traditional	The Stanley Brothers	two:15
Total length:				60:18

10th Ceremony Deluxe Edition bonus disc

No.	Title	Artist	Length
1.	"Hard Time Killing Floor Blues"	Colin Linden	ane:xv
2.	"You 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	ii:32
five.	"Big Rock Candy Mountain"	Van Dyke Parks	ane:42
6.	"Tom Devil"	Ed Lewis & The Prisoners	5:19
vii.	"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 Mount"	Norman Blake	2:18
10.	"Trivial 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 Iv	two:36
fourteen.	"In The Jailhouse At present"	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 – Fiddle, vocals The Fairfield 4 – Performer Ed Haley – Arranger The Whites: Cadet 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 Os 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 – Dabble Pat Enright – Vocals, harmony vocals, yodeling Isaac Freeman – Bass, vocals, lead

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 Yard. 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 Outset Baptist Church of Norfolk Choir – Vocals Chris Sharp – 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 backup vocals James Carter and The Prisoners – Performers Alan Larman – Musicologist

Chart performance [edit]

Weekly charts [edit] Chart (2000–2002) Meridian position Australian Albums (ARIA)[27] 15 Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria)[28] lxx Canadian Albums (Billboard)[29] 3 French Albums (SNEP)[30] 9 German Albums (Offizielle Elevation 100)[31] 87 New Zealand Albums (RMNZ)[32] xiv US Billboard 200[33] 1 US Superlative Country Albums (Billboard)[34] 1 US Soundtrack Albums (Billboard)[35] 1

Yr-cease charts [edit] Twelvemonth-end chart performance for O Brother, Where Art 1000? Chart (2001) Position Canadian Albums (Nilsen Soundscan) [36] 31 Canadian Country Albums (Nielsen Soundscan)[37] 2 US Billboard 200[38] 23 United states Top Country Albums (Billboard)[39] ii Usa Soundtrack Albums (Billboard)[40] ane Chart (2002) Position Canadian Albums (Nielsen Soundscan)[41] 19 Canadian State Albums (Nielsen Soundscan)[42] 3 US Billboard 200[43] half dozen US Meridian Country Albums (Billboard)[44] 1 Us Soundtrack Albums (Billboard)[45] 1 Nautical chart (2003) Position Usa Soundtrack Albums (Billboard)[46] eleven Chart (2004) Position US Soundtrack Albums (Billboard)[47] 14 Chart (2013) Position U.s.a. Soundtrack Albums (Billboard)[48] 25 Chart (2014) Position US Soundtrack Albums (Billboard)[49] 24 Chart (2015) Position US Soundtrack Albums (Billboard)[50] 22 Chart (2016) Position US Soundtrack Albums (Billboard)[51] 21 Nautical chart (2017) Position United states of america Soundtrack Albums (Billboard)[52] 25

Certifications [edit]

See besides [edit]

• Down from the Mountain

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External links [edit]

• Official website
• BBC News: O Brother, why art chiliad then popular?

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