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2000 soundtrack album by various artists

O Brother, Where Art G?
Soundtrack album by various artists
Released	December 5, 2000 (2000-12-05)
Recorded	(modern tracks) Spring 1999
Studio	Sound Emporium, Nashville
Genre	Land folk bluegrass blues gospel Americana soundtrack
Length	61:24
Label	Lost Highway/Mercury
Producer	T Bone Burnett

O Blood brother, Where Art M? is the soundtrack album of music from the 2000 American film of the same name, written, directed and produced past the Coen Brothers and starring George Clooney, John Turturro, Tim Blake Nelson, and John Goodman.

The film is set in Mississippi during the Nifty Depression. The soundtrack, produced by T-Bone Burnett, uses bluegrass, country, gospel, blues, and Southern folk music appropriate to the time menstruum. With the exception of a few vintage tracks (such as Harry McClintock's 1928 single "Large Rock Candy Mountain"), well-nigh tracks are modernistic recordings.

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

Evolution and sound [edit]

The soundtrack was conceived as a major component of the moving picture, not merely equally a background or support. For this reason it was decided to tape the soundtrack before filming.^[two] T-Bone Burnett and Alan Larman were invited to design collections of music.^[3]

Dirges and other macabre songs recurring in Appalachian music,^[four] such as "O Death", "Lonesome Valley", "Affections Band", and "I Am Weary", appear in the film every bit a contrast to the bright, cheerful songs similar "Keep On the Sunnyside" and "In the Highways". Ralph Stanley of The Stanley Brothers personally recorded the a cappella folk song "O Expiry".^{[5] [vi]}

"I Am a Human being of Abiding Sorrow" has five variations: two are used in the film, ane in the music video, and two in the anthology. Ii of the variations feature the verses beingness sung dorsum-to-dorsum, and the other 3 variations feature 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 person ratings

Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	83/100[9]
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[10]
The Austin Chronicle	[11]
Entertainment Weekly	B+[12]
Pitchfork	8.iii/10[13]
Q	[14]
Rolling Rock	[15]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide	[xvi]
Uncut	[17]

O Brother, Where Fine art Thou? won the Grammy Award for Album of the Year in 2002, the Grammy Award for Best Country Collaboration with Vocals (for singer Dan Tyminski, whose voice overdubbed George Clooney's in the moving picture on "I Am a Man of Constant Sorrow", Nashville songwriter Harley Allen, and the Nashville Bluegrass Band's Pat Enright), and the Grammy Award for Best Male State Vocal Operation for "O, Death" past Ralph Stanley.

The album won the Anthology of the Year Award (just the second soundtrack to always practice so) and Single of the Twelvemonth Honour for "I Am a Homo of Constant Sorrow" at the Country Music Association Awards.^[xviii] It also won the Album of the Year Award at the 37th Academy of Country Music Awards and took home 2 International Bluegrass Music Awards: Anthology of the Yr and Gospel Recorded Performance of the Twelvemonth (for Alison Krauss and Gillian Welch on "I'll Wing Abroad").^[19]

In 2006, the album ranked No. 38 on CMT's 40 Greatest Albums in Country Music. In 2009, Rhapsody ranked it No. viii on the "Country'due south All-time Albums of the Decade" listing.^[20] Engine 145 State Music Blog ranked information technology No. five on the "State's Best Albums of the Decade" list.^[21] In 2010, All Songs Considered, a plan on NPR, included the soundtrack album on their list of "The Decade'due south 50 Well-nigh Of import Recordings".^[22]

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

On August 23, 2011, a 10th anniversary edition was released featuring a bonus disc with fourteen new tracks that were not included in the original anthology, all simply 2 of which were previously unreleased songs from Burnett's original sessions.^{[23] [24]}

Commercial operation [edit]

The anthology charted at No. 1 on Billboard 200 In 2001, and spent over 20 weeks on the Billboard Top State Albums Chart. The soundtrack CD became a all-time seller; information technology was showtime certified Gold by the RIAA on February 9, 2001, and reached 8 times Platinum past October ten, 2007.^[25] Information technology has sold 8,175,800 copies in the The states as of Oct 2019.^[26]

Track listing [edit]

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Creative person	Length
1.	"Po' Lazarus"	traditional	James Carter and the Prisoners	4:31
2.	"Big Rock Candy Mount"	Harry McClintock	Harry McClintock	ii:16
3.	"You Are My Sunshine"	Jimmie Davis, Charles Mitchell	Norman Blake	4:26
four.	"Downwardly 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 Bottom Boys	3:ten
6.	"Hard Time Killing Flooring Blues"	Skip James	Chris Thomas King	2:42
7.	"I Am a Man of Constant Sorrow" (instrumental)	Burnett	Norman Blake	4:28
8.	"Keep On the Sunny Side"	Ada Blenkhorn, J. Howard Entwisle	The Whites	3:33
9.	"I'll Fly Away"	Albert East. Brumley	Alison Krauss, Gillian Welch	3:57
10.	"Didn't Get out Nobody simply 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 Residue)"	Pete Roberts (Pete Kuykendall)	The Cox Family unit	three:13
thirteen.	"I Am a Man of Constant Sorrow" (instrumental)	Ed Haley	John Hartford	2:34
14.	"O Death"	Lloyd Chandler	Ralph Stanley	three:19
15.	"In the Jailhouse Now"	Blind Blake, Jimmie Rodgers	The Soggy Bottom Boys	3:34
16.	"I Am a Man of Abiding Sorrow" (with band)	Burnett	The Soggy Bottom Boys	4:16
17.	"Indian State of war Whoop" (instrumental)	Hoyt Ming	John Hartford	1:30
18.	"Lonesome Valley"	traditional	The Fairfield Four	4:07
19.	"Angel Band"	traditional	The Stanley Brothers	2:15
Total length:				60:18

10th Ceremony Deluxe Edition bonus disc

No.	Title	Artist	Length
1.	"Hard Time Killing Flooring Blues"	Colin Linden	1:15
2.	"You Are My Sunshine"	Alan O'Bryant	3:29
iii.	"Tishomingo Dejection"	John Hartford	2:01
4.	"I'll Wing Away"	The Kossoy Sisters with Erik Darling	2:32
5.	"Big Rock Processed Mountain"	Van Dyke Parks	1:42
6.	"Tom Devil"	Ed Lewis & The Prisoners	five:19
7.	"Keep On The Sunny Side"	The Cox Family	two:36
8.	"Angel Band"	Hannah, Leah, Sarah Peasall and Robert Hamlett	0:58
9.	"Big Rock Candy Mountain"	Norman Blake	2:18
ten.	"Picayune Sadie"	Norman Blake	ane:50
11.	"In the Highways"	The Cox Family	2:12
12.	"Hogfoot"	John Hartford	three:47
13.	"The Lord Will Make A Manner"	The Fairfield Four	2:36
14.	"In The Jailhouse Now"	Harley Allen	3:05
Full length:			35:xl

Personnel [edit]

Norman Blake – Performer, guitar, vocals Jerry Douglas – Dobro Alison Krauss – Vocals, harmony vocals Chris Precipitous – Rhythm guitar The Stanley Brothers – Performers Ralph Stanley – Performer Sam Bush – 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 unit: 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 Hill – 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 Chiliad. 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 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 song, 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) Superlative position Australian Albums (ARIA)[27] 15 Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria)[28] seventy Canadian Albums (Billboard)[29] 3 French Albums (SNEP)[xxx] 9 German Albums (Offizielle Top 100)[31] 87 New Zealand Albums (RMNZ)[32] fourteen The states Billboard 200[33] 1 US Superlative Land Albums (Billboard)[34] 1 US Soundtrack Albums (Billboard)[35] 1

Year-finish charts [edit] Year-end chart performance for O Brother, Where Art Thousand? Chart (2001) Position Canadian Albums (Nilsen Soundscan) [36] 31 Canadian Country Albums (Nielsen Soundscan)[37] 2 US Billboard 200[38] 23 US Top Country Albums (Billboard)[39] 2 U.s.a. Soundtrack Albums (Billboard)[40] 1 Chart (2002) Position Canadian Albums (Nielsen Soundscan)[41] 19 Canadian State Albums (Nielsen Soundscan)[42] 3 US Billboard 200[43] 6 US Top Country Albums (Billboard)[44] i The states Soundtrack Albums (Billboard)[45] 1 Nautical chart (2003) Position US Soundtrack Albums (Billboard)[46] 11 Chart (2004) Position U.s. Soundtrack Albums (Billboard)[47] xiv Chart (2013) Position U.s. Soundtrack Albums (Billboard)[48] 25 Nautical chart (2014) Position US Soundtrack Albums (Billboard)[49] 24 Chart (2015) Position US Soundtrack Albums (Billboard)[50] 22 Chart (2016) Position Usa Soundtrack Albums (Billboard)[51] 21 Nautical chart (2017) Position US Soundtrack Albums (Billboard)[52] 25

Certifications [edit]

See too [edit]

• Downwardly 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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