Instrumental Sound Track to O Brother Where Art Thou?

2000 soundtrack album by diverse artists

O Brother, Where Art K?
Soundtrack album past various artists
Released	December 5, 2000 (2000-12-05)
Recorded	(modernistic tracks) Spring 1999
Studio	Audio 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 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 picture is set in Mississippi during the Neat Low. The soundtrack, produced by T-Bone Burnett, uses bluegrass, state, gospel, blues, and Southern folk music appropriate to the fourth dimension menses. With the exception of a few vintage tracks (such as Harry McClintock's 1928 single "Large Rock Candy Mountain"), nigh tracks are modernistic recordings.

The soundtrack was reissued on Baronial 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 Blood brother sessions."^[ane]

Development and audio [edit]

The soundtrack was conceived as a major component of the film, not merely equally a background or support. For this reason it was decided to tape 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 every bit "O Death", "Lonesome Valley", "Angel Band", and "I Am Weary", appear in the picture show 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 Death".^{[5] [6]}

"I Am a Man of Constant Sorrow" has 5 variations: ii are used in the picture, one in the music video, and two in the album. Two of the variations feature the verses existence sung back-to-back, and the other three variations feature additional music between each poesy.^[seven] The voices of the Soggy Bottom Boys were provided by Dan Tyminski (lead vocal on "I Am a Man 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	[xi]
Entertainment Weekly	B+[12]
Pitchfork	8.3/10[13]
Q	[14]
Rolling Stone	[fifteen]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide	[16]
Uncut	[17]

O Brother, Where Fine art M? won the Grammy Honor for Album of the Year in 2002, the Grammy Honour for All-time 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 Award for All-time Male Country Vocal Functioning for "O, Death" past Ralph Stanley.

The album won the Album of the Year Award (just the second soundtrack to ever practise so) and Unmarried of the Year Award for "I Am a Homo of Constant Sorrow" at the Country Music Association Awards.^[eighteen] It also won the Album of the Year Honour at the 37th Academy of Country Music Awards and took habitation two International Bluegrass Music Awards: Album of the Yr and Gospel Recorded Performance of the Year (for Alison Krauss and Gillian Welch on "I'll Wing Away").^[nineteen]

In 2006, the album ranked No. 38 on CMT's 40 Greatest Albums in Country Music. In 2009, Rhapsody ranked information technology No. 8 on the "Country'due south Best Albums of the Decade" list.^[20] Engine 145 Country Music Blog ranked it No. 5 on the "Land'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'south 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 film, Downwardly from the Mountain.

On August 23, 2011, a tenth anniversary edition was released featuring a bonus disc with xiv new tracks that were not included in the original album, all but ii of which were previously unreleased songs from Burnett's 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 Country Albums Chart. The soundtrack CD became a best seller; information technology was first certified Aureate by the RIAA on February nine, 2001, and reached viii times Platinum by October 10, 2007.^[25] It has sold eight,175,800 copies in the United States as of October 2019.^[26]

Track listing [edit]

No.	Title	Author(southward)	Creative person	Length
1.	"Po' Lazarus"	traditional	James Carter and the Prisoners	4:31
2.	"Large Rock Candy Mountain"	Harry McClintock	Harry McClintock	ii:sixteen
iii.	"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 Human being of Constant Sorrow" (radio station version)	Dick Burnett	The Soggy Bottom Boys	3:ten
half-dozen.	"Hard Fourth dimension Killing Floor Blues"	Skip James	Chris Thomas Rex	2:42
7.	"I Am a Man of Abiding Sorrow" (instrumental)	Burnett	Norman Blake	4:28
8.	"Proceed On the Sunny Side"	Ada Blenkhorn, J. Howard Entwisle	The Whites	iii:33
9.	"I'll Fly Abroad"	Albert Due east. Brumley	Alison Krauss, Gillian Welch	3:57
10.	"Didn't Leave Nobody merely the Baby"	traditional	Emmylou Harris, Alison Krauss, Gillian Welch	1:57
xi.	"In the Highways"	Maybelle Carter	The Peasall Sisters	i:35
12.	"I Am Weary (Let Me Rest)"	Pete Roberts (Pete Kuykendall)	The Cox Family	3:xiii
13.	"I Am a Man of Constant Sorrow" (instrumental)	Ed Haley	John Hartford	2:34
fourteen.	"O Death"	Lloyd Chandler	Ralph Stanley	3:19
15.	"In the Jailhouse At present"	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	four:16
17.	"Indian War Whoop" (instrumental)	Hoyt Ming	John Hartford	1:30
eighteen.	"Lonesome Valley"	traditional	The Fairfield Four	4:07
19.	"Angel Ring"	traditional	The Stanley Brothers	2:fifteen
Full length:				60:18

10th Anniversary Deluxe Edition bonus disc

No.	Title	Artist	Length
i.	"Difficult Time Killing Flooring Dejection"	Colin Linden	ane:15
2.	"You Are My Sunshine"	Alan O'Bryant	3:29
3.	"Tishomingo Blues"	John Hartford	2:01
4.	"I'll Wing Away"	The Kossoy Sisters with Erik Darling	2:32
5.	"Big Rock Candy Mountain"	Van Dyke Parks	1:42
half dozen.	"Tom Devil"	Ed Lewis & The Prisoners	5:19
seven.	"Keep On The Sunny Side"	The Cox Family	two:36
8.	"Angel Ring"	Hannah, Leah, Sarah Peasall and Robert Hamlett	0:58
ix.	"Big Stone Candy Mount"	Norman Blake	two:18
10.	"Piffling Sadie"	Norman Blake	1:50
11.	"In the Highways"	The Cox Family	ii:12
12.	"Hogfoot"	John Hartford	3:47
xiii.	"The Lord Will Make A Manner"	The Fairfield Four	two:36
14.	"In The Jailhouse Now"	Harley Allen	3:05
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-league – 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 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 – Dabble 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 G. Oermann – Liner notes Sam Phillips – Vocals Gillian Welch – Arranger, vocals Dub Cornett – Vocals Chris Thomas Male monarch – Guitar, vocals David Rawlings – Vocals Gavin Lurssen – Mastering Mike Piersante – Mixing Peter Kurland – Location recording First Baptist Church of Norfolk Choir – Vocals Chris Abrupt – 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 fill-in 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] 15 Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria)[28] 70 Canadian Albums (Billboard)[29] iii French Albums (SNEP)[30] 9 High german Albums (Offizielle Meridian 100)[31] 87 New Zealand Albums (RMNZ)[32] 14 Us Billboard 200[33] 1 The states Elevation Country Albums (Billboard)[34] one US Soundtrack Albums (Billboard)[35] 1

Year-end charts [edit] Year-end nautical chart operation for O Brother, Where Art Thou? Chart (2001) Position Canadian Albums (Nilsen Soundscan) [36] 31 Canadian Country Albums (Nielsen Soundscan)[37] 2 U.s. Billboard 200[38] 23 US Top Country Albums (Billboard)[39] ii U.s.a. Soundtrack Albums (Billboard)[xl] one Chart (2002) Position Canadian Albums (Nielsen Soundscan)[41] nineteen Canadian Land Albums (Nielsen Soundscan)[42] three Us Billboard 200[43] six Us Height Country Albums (Billboard)[44] ane The states Soundtrack Albums (Billboard)[45] one Chart (2003) Position Us Soundtrack Albums (Billboard)[46] 11 Chart (2004) Position US Soundtrack Albums (Billboard)[47] 14 Chart (2013) Position Usa 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 US Soundtrack Albums (Billboard)[51] 21 Chart (2017) Position US Soundtrack Albums (Billboard)[52] 25

Certifications [edit]

Run into as well [edit]

• Downward from the Mountain

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External links [edit]

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

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