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2000 soundtrack anthology by various artists

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

O Brother, Where Art Grand? is the soundtrack album of music from the 2000 American moving-picture show 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 flick is set in Mississippi during the Great Depression. The soundtrack, produced by T-Bone Burnett, uses bluegrass, country, gospel, blues, and Southern folk music appropriate to the time period. With the exception of a few vintage tracks (such every bit Harry McClintock'south 1928 unmarried "Big Rock Candy Mount"), most tracks are modernistic recordings.

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

Evolution and sound [edit]

The soundtrack was conceived as a major component of the picture, not merely as 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 blueprint collections of music.^[3]

Dirges and other macabre songs recurring in Appalachian music,^[4] such as "O Death", "Lonesome Valley", "Affections Ring", and "I Am Weary", appear in the film as 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 vocal "O Death".^{[5] [6]}

"I Am a Man of Constant Sorrow" has five variations: ii are used in the pic, i in the music video, and two 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 past Dan Tyminski (lead vocal on "I Am a Man of Abiding 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	[10]
The Austin Chronicle	[eleven]
Amusement Weekly	B+[12]
Pitchfork	viii.3/x[13]
Q	[xiv]
Rolling Stone	[15]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide	[xvi]
Uncut	[17]

O Brother, Where Art Thou? won the Grammy Honour for Album of the Year in 2002, the Grammy Award for Best Country Collaboration with Vocals (for vocalist Dan Tyminski, whose vocalisation overdubbed George Clooney's in the film on "I Am a Human being of Constant Sorrow", Nashville songwriter Harley Allen, and the Nashville Bluegrass Ring'due south Pat Enright), and the Grammy Award 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 exercise and so) and Single of the Twelvemonth Award for "I Am a Homo of Abiding Sorrow" at the Country Music Clan Awards.^[eighteen] Information technology as well won the Album of the Yr Award at the 37th Academy of Country Music Awards and took dwelling house 2 International Bluegrass Music Awards: Album of the Twelvemonth and Gospel Recorded Performance of the Year (for Alison Krauss and Gillian Welch on "I'll Fly Away").^[nineteen]

In 2006, the album ranked No. 38 on CMT'southward 40 Greatest Albums in Country Music. In 2009, Rhapsody ranked it No. 8 on the "State'due south All-time Albums of the Decade" list.^[20] Engine 145 Country Music Blog ranked it No. v on the "Land's Best Albums of the Decade" list.^[21] In 2010, All Songs Considered, a program on NPR, included the soundtrack album on their listing of "The Decade's 50 Most 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 motion-picture show, Down from the Mountain.

On August 23, 2011, a 10th 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'due south original sessions.^{[23] [24]}

Commercial performance [edit]

The anthology 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 all-time seller; information technology was first certified Gold by the RIAA on February 9, 2001, and reached 8 times Platinum past Oct 10, 2007.^[25] It has sold 8,175,800 copies in the Us as of October 2019.^[26]

Track listing [edit]

No.	Title	Writer(due south)	Creative person	Length
1.	"Po' Lazarus"	traditional	James Carter and the Prisoners	4:31
two.	"Big Rock Candy Mountain"	Harry McClintock	Harry McClintock	2:16
3.	"Y'all Are My Sunshine"	Jimmie Davis, Charles Mitchell	Norman Blake	4:26
4.	"Down to the River to Pray"	traditional	Alison Krauss	2:55
five.	"I Am a Human being of Abiding Sorrow" (radio station version)	Dick Burnett	The Soggy Bottom Boys	three:x
six.	"Difficult Fourth dimension Killing Floor Blues"	Skip James	Chris Thomas Rex	ii:42
vii.	"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 Abroad"	Albert E. Brumley	Alison Krauss, Gillian Welch	3:57
ten.	"Didn't Leave Nobody just the Infant"	traditional	Emmylou Harris, Alison Krauss, Gillian Welch	1:57
11.	"In the Highways"	Maybelle Carter	The Peasall Sisters	i:35
12.	"I Am Weary (Let Me Rest)"	Pete Roberts (Pete Kuykendall)	The Cox Family	3:13
13.	"I Am a Homo of Abiding Sorrow" (instrumental)	Ed Haley	John Hartford	2:34
fourteen.	"O Decease"	Lloyd Chandler	Ralph Stanley	three:19
15.	"In the Jailhouse Now"	Blind Blake, Jimmie Rodgers	The Soggy Lesser Boys	3:34
sixteen.	"I Am a Man of Abiding Sorrow" (with band)	Burnett	The Soggy Lesser Boys	4:16
17.	"Indian War Whoop" (instrumental)	Hoyt Ming	John Hartford	one:30
xviii.	"Lonesome Valley"	traditional	The Fairfield 4	4:07
19.	"Angel Band"	traditional	The Stanley Brothers	ii:15
Total length:				sixty:18

10th Anniversary Palatial Edition bonus disc

No.	Championship	Artist	Length
one.	"Hard Time Killing Floor Dejection"	Colin Linden	1:15
ii.	"You Are My Sunshine"	Alan O'Bryant	3:29
3.	"Tishomingo Blues"	John Hartford	ii:01
4.	"I'll Fly Away"	The Kossoy Sisters with Erik Darling	2:32
5.	"Big Stone Processed Mountain"	Van Dyke Parks	i:42
6.	"Tom Devil"	Ed Lewis & The Prisoners	5:nineteen
7.	"Go along On The Sunny Side"	The Cox Family unit	2:36
8.	"Angel Band"	Hannah, Leah, Sarah Peasall and Robert Hamlett	0:58
nine.	"Big Rock Processed Mount"	Norman Blake	ii:18
10.	"Lilliputian Sadie"	Norman Blake	1:50
11.	"In the Highways"	The Cox Family	2:12
12.	"Hogfoot"	John Hartford	iii:47
13.	"The Lord Will Make A Way"	The Fairfield Four	2:36
14.	"In The Jailhouse Now"	Harley Allen	3:05
Total length:			35:twoscore

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: 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, 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 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 Beginning 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 song, 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 functioning [edit]

Weekly charts [edit] Chart (2000–2002) Peak position Australian Albums (ARIA)[27] xv Austrian Albums (Ö3 Republic of austria)[28] lxx Canadian Albums (Billboard)[29] three French Albums (SNEP)[30] 9 German Albums (Offizielle Top 100)[31] 87 New Zealand Albums (RMNZ)[32] xiv US Billboard 200[33] i US Acme Country Albums (Billboard)[34] i United states of america Soundtrack Albums (Billboard)[35] one

Yr-terminate charts [edit] Year-stop chart performance for O Brother, Where Art Thou? Nautical chart (2001) Position Canadian Albums (Nilsen Soundscan) [36] 31 Canadian Country Albums (Nielsen Soundscan)[37] 2 Usa Billboard 200[38] 23 Us Top State Albums (Billboard)[39] ii US Soundtrack Albums (Billboard)[40] one Nautical chart (2002) Position Canadian Albums (Nielsen Soundscan)[41] xix Canadian Country Albums (Nielsen Soundscan)[42] iii US Billboard 200[43] 6 Usa Top Country Albums (Billboard)[44] 1 US Soundtrack Albums (Billboard)[45] i Chart (2003) Position US Soundtrack Albums (Billboard)[46] eleven Chart (2004) Position United states of america Soundtrack Albums (Billboard)[47] xiv Chart (2013) Position U.s. Soundtrack Albums (Billboard)[48] 25 Chart (2014) Position U.s. 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 US Soundtrack Albums (Billboard)[52] 25

Certifications [edit]

See also [edit]

• Downwardly from the Mount

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55. ^ "British album certifications – Soundtrack – O Brother, Where Art Chiliad?". British Phonographic Industry. Retrieved 9 July 2019. Select albums in the Format field.Select Platinum in the Certification field.Type O Brother, Where Art One thousand? in the "Search BPI Awards" field and and so press Enter.

External links [edit]

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

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