Who Did the Music for Oh Brother Where Art Thou

2000 soundtrack anthology by various artists

O Brother, Where Art K?
Soundtrack album by various artists
Released	December 5, 2000 (2000-12-05)
Recorded	(mod tracks) Leap 1999
Studio	Sound Emporium, Nashville
Genre	State 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 album of music from the 2000 American film of the same name, written, directed and produced by the Coen Brothers and starring George Clooney, John Turturro, Tim Blake Nelson, and John Goodman.

The pic is set in Mississippi during the Bully Depression. The soundtrack, produced past 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 equally Harry McClintock's 1928 unmarried "Big Stone Processed Mountain"), almost 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-Bone Burnett's O Blood brother sessions."^[1]

Development and audio [edit]

The soundtrack was conceived as a major component of the film, not merely as a background or support. For this reason information technology was decided to tape the soundtrack before filming.^[2] T-Os Burnett and Alan Larman were invited to design collections of music.^[3]

Dirges and other macabre songs recurring in Appalachian music,^[4] such equally "O Death", "Lonesome Valley", "Angel Ring", and "I Am Weary", appear in the film equally a contrast to the bright, cheerful songs like "Go along On the Sunnyside" and "In the Highways". Ralph Stanley of The Stanley Brothers personally recorded the a cappella folk vocal "O Death".^{[5] [half dozen]}

"I Am a Human of Constant Sorrow" has five variations: 2 are used in the film, one in the music video, and 2 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.^[seven] The voices of the Soggy Bottom Boys were provided by Dan Tyminski (atomic number 82 vocal on "I Am a Human being 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	[11]
Entertainment Weekly	B+[12]
Pitchfork	8.3/x[xiii]
Q	[14]
Rolling Stone	[15]
The Rolling Stone Anthology Guide	[16]
Uncut	[17]

O Blood brother, Where Fine art 1000? won the Grammy Award for Album of the Year in 2002, the Grammy Laurels for Best Country Collaboration with Vocals (for vocaliser Dan Tyminski, whose voice overdubbed George Clooney'southward in the movie on "I Am a Homo of Constant Sorrow", Nashville songwriter Harley Allen, and the Nashville Bluegrass Band's Pat Enright), and the Grammy Honor for All-time Male Land Song Operation for "O, Death" past Ralph Stanley.

The anthology won the Album of the Year Honor (only the second soundtrack to ever practice and so) and Single of the Year Award for "I Am a Human of Constant Sorrow" at the State Music Association Awards.^[eighteen] It also won the Album of the Twelvemonth Award at the 37th University of Country Music Awards and took dwelling ii International Bluegrass Music Awards: Album of the Twelvemonth and Gospel Recorded Performance of the Year (for Alison Krauss and Gillian Welch on "I'll Wing Away").^[19]

In 2006, the album ranked No. 38 on CMT's xl Greatest Albums in Country Music. In 2009, Rhapsody ranked it No. eight on the "Country's Best Albums of the Decade" list.^[twenty] Engine 145 Country Music Blog ranked it No. 5 on the "Land'south Best Albums of the Decade" list.^[21] In 2010, All Songs Considered, a plan on NPR, included the soundtrack album on their listing of "The Decade's fifty 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 film, Down from the Mountain.

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 album, all simply ii of which were previously unreleased songs from Burnett's original sessions.^{[23] [24]}

Commercial operation [edit]

The album charted at No. 1 on Billboard 200 In 2001, and spent over 20 weeks on the Billboard Top Country Albums Nautical chart. The soundtrack CD became a best seller; it was commencement certified Gilt by the RIAA on February 9, 2001, and reached eight times Platinum past Oct x, 2007.^[25] It has sold 8,175,800 copies in the United States equally of October 2019.^[26]

Track listing [edit]

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Artist	Length
1.	"Po' Lazarus"	traditional	James Carter and the Prisoners	4:31
2.	"Large Rock Candy Mountain"	Harry McClintock	Harry McClintock	2:xvi
3.	"You Are My Sunshine"	Jimmie Davis, Charles Mitchell	Norman Blake	4:26
four.	"Down to the River to Pray"	traditional	Alison Krauss	two:55
5.	"I Am a Man of Abiding Sorrow" (radio station version)	Dick Burnett	The Soggy Bottom Boys	iii:10
6.	"Hard Time Killing Flooring Blues"	Skip James	Chris Thomas Rex	2:42
7.	"I Am a Human of Constant Sorrow" (instrumental)	Burnett	Norman Blake	4:28
viii.	"Keep On the Sunny Side"	Ada Blenkhorn, J. Howard Entwisle	The Whites	3:33
9.	"I'll Wing Away"	Albert E. Brumley	Alison Krauss, Gillian Welch	3:57
10.	"Didn't Leave Nobody just the Baby"	traditional	Emmylou Harris, Alison Krauss, Gillian Welch	i:57
xi.	"In the Highways"	Maybelle Carter	The Peasall Sisters	1:35
12.	"I Am Weary (Let Me Rest)"	Pete Roberts (Pete Kuykendall)	The Cox Family	3:13
13.	"I Am a Man of Constant Sorrow" (instrumental)	Ed Haley	John Hartford	2:34
fourteen.	"O Death"	Lloyd Chandler	Ralph Stanley	3:nineteen
xv.	"In the Jailhouse Now"	Blind Blake, Jimmie Rodgers	The Soggy Bottom Boys	three:34
sixteen.	"I Am a Man of Abiding Sorrow" (with band)	Burnett	The Soggy Bottom Boys	four:xvi
17.	"Indian War Whoop" (instrumental)	Hoyt Ming	John Hartford	1:30
eighteen.	"Lonesome Valley"	traditional	The Fairfield Four	4:07
xix.	"Affections Band"	traditional	The Stanley Brothers	2:xv
Total length:				lx:xviii

tenth Anniversary Palatial Edition bonus disc

No.	Title	Artist	Length
1.	"Hard Fourth dimension Killing Floor Blues"	Colin Linden	i:15
ii.	"Y'all Are My Sunshine"	Alan O'Bryant	iii:29
3.	"Tishomingo Dejection"	John Hartford	2:01
4.	"I'll Fly Away"	The Kossoy Sisters with Erik Darling	2:32
5.	"Big Stone Candy Mount"	Van Dyke Parks	ane:42
half dozen.	"Tom Devil"	Ed Lewis & The Prisoners	5:19
7.	"Keep On The Sunny Side"	The Cox Family unit	two:36
viii.	"Angel Band"	Hannah, Leah, Sarah Peasall and Robert Hamlett	0:58
nine.	"Big Rock Candy Mount"	Norman Blake	2:18
10.	"Little Sadie"	Norman Blake	1:50
xi.	"In the Highways"	The Cox Family	two:12
12.	"Hogfoot"	John Hartford	3:47
13.	"The Lord Will Make A Way"	The Fairfield Four	ii:36
14.	"In The Jailhouse Now"	Harley Allen	3:05
Full 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 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, atomic number 82

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 K. 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 Kickoff 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 song, guitar, harmony vocals Hannah Peasall – Soprano vocal, mandolin Leah Peasall – Tenor vocal, violin, harmony vocals The Soggy Lesser 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) Peak position Australian Albums (ARIA)[27] xv Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria)[28] 70 Canadian Albums (Billboard)[29] 3 French Albums (SNEP)[30] 9 German Albums (Offizielle Meridian 100)[31] 87 New Zealand Albums (RMNZ)[32] 14 US Billboard 200[33] 1 Us Meridian Country Albums (Billboard)[34] i US Soundtrack Albums (Billboard)[35] 1

Year-end charts [edit] Yr-end chart operation for O Brother, Where Art Yard? Chart (2001) Position Canadian Albums (Nilsen Soundscan) [36] 31 Canadian Country Albums (Nielsen Soundscan)[37] ii U.s. Billboard 200[38] 23 US Top Country Albums (Billboard)[39] 2 Usa Soundtrack Albums (Billboard)[40] one Chart (2002) Position Canadian Albums (Nielsen Soundscan)[41] nineteen Canadian Country Albums (Nielsen Soundscan)[42] 3 United states of america Billboard 200[43] 6 US Top Country Albums (Billboard)[44] 1 The states Soundtrack Albums (Billboard)[45] ane Chart (2003) Position US Soundtrack Albums (Billboard)[46] eleven Chart (2004) Position US Soundtrack Albums (Billboard)[47] 14 Chart (2013) Position United states of america Soundtrack Albums (Billboard)[48] 25 Chart (2014) Position United states of america Soundtrack Albums (Billboard)[49] 24 Nautical chart (2015) Position United states Soundtrack Albums (Billboard)[50] 22 Chart (2016) Position United states Soundtrack Albums (Billboard)[51] 21 Nautical chart (2017) Position U.s. Soundtrack Albums (Billboard)[52] 25

Certifications [edit]

See also [edit]

• Down from the Mountain

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55. ^ "British album certifications – Soundtrack – O Brother, Where Fine art Thousand?". British Phonographic Manufacture. Retrieved nine July 2019. Select albums in the Format field.Select Platinum in the Certification field.Type O Brother, Where Art Thou? in the "Search BPI Awards" field then printing Enter.

External links [edit]

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

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