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2000 soundtrack anthology past various artists

O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Soundtrack album by diverse artists
Released	December v, 2000 (2000-12-05)
Recorded	(modern 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 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 film 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'due south 1928 single "Large Rock Processed Mountain"), most tracks are modern recordings.

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

Development and sound [edit]

The soundtrack was conceived every bit a major component of the film, not merely every bit a background or support. For this reason it was decided to record the soundtrack before filming.^[2] T-Os 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 every bit 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 vocal "O Death".^{[5] [half-dozen]}

"I Am a Human of Constant Sorrow" has five variations: two are used in the film, ane 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 betwixt each verse.^[7] The voices of the Soggy Bottom Boys were provided by Dan Tyminski (lead vocal on "I Am a Homo of Abiding Sorrow"), Nashville songwriter Harley Allen, and the Nashville Bluegrass Ring's Pat Enright.^[8]

Reception and legacy [edit]

Professional person ratings

Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	83/100[9]
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[ten]
The Austin Chronicle	[11]
Entertainment Weekly	B+[12]
Pitchfork	viii.3/10[xiii]
Q	[14]
Rolling Stone	[xv]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide	[16]
Uncut	[17]

O Blood brother, Where Art Grand? won the Grammy Award for Album of the Twelvemonth in 2002, the Grammy Award for Best Country Collaboration with Vocals (for vocaliser Dan Tyminski, whose vox overdubbed George Clooney'south in the film on "I Am a Man of Constant Sorrow", Nashville songwriter Harley Allen, and the Nashville Bluegrass Ring's Pat Enright), and the Grammy Award for Best Male person Country Vocal Performance for "O, Decease" by Ralph Stanley.

The anthology won the Album of the Year Award (merely the second soundtrack to ever do so) and Single of the Year Award for "I Am a Man of Constant Sorrow" at the Country Music Clan Awards.^[18] It also won the Album of the Year Honour at the 37th University of Country Music Awards and took domicile 2 International Bluegrass Music Awards: Album of the Year 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's 40 Greatest Albums in State Music. In 2009, Rhapsody ranked it No. 8 on the "Country's Best Albums of the Decade" list.^[20] Engine 145 Country Music Blog ranked it No. five on the "State'southward Best Albums of the Decade" list.^[21] In 2010, All Songs Considered, a plan on NPR, included the soundtrack anthology on their listing 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 picture, Down from the Mount.

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 two of which were previously unreleased songs from Burnett's original sessions.^{[23] [24]}

Commercial operation [edit]

The anthology charted at No. one on Billboard 200 In 2001, and spent over 20 weeks on the Billboard Top Country Albums Chart. The soundtrack CD became a best seller; it was starting time certified Gold past the RIAA on February 9, 2001, and reached eight times Platinum past October x, 2007.^[25] Information technology has sold 8,175,800 copies in the United States as of Oct 2019.^[26]

Rail listing [edit]

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Artist	Length
1.	"Po' Lazarus"	traditional	James Carter and the Prisoners	4:31
2.	"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
5.	"I Am a Homo of Constant Sorrow" (radio station version)	Dick Burnett	The Soggy Lesser Boys	3:10
six.	"Difficult Time Killing Flooring Blues"	Skip James	Chris Thomas King	2:42
seven.	"I Am a Man of Abiding Sorrow" (instrumental)	Burnett	Norman Blake	4:28
8.	"Keep On the Sunny Side"	Ada Blenkhorn, J. Howard Entwisle	The Whites	iii:33
9.	"I'll Fly Away"	Albert E. Brumley	Alison Krauss, Gillian Welch	3:57
10.	"Didn't Exit Nobody simply the Baby"	traditional	Emmylou Harris, Alison Krauss, Gillian Welch	1:57
11.	"In the Highways"	Maybelle Carter	The Peasall Sisters	one:35
12.	"I Am Weary (Let Me Remainder)"	Pete Roberts (Pete Kuykendall)	The Cox Family unit	3:13
13.	"I Am a Homo of Abiding Sorrow" (instrumental)	Ed Haley	John Hartford	ii:34
14.	"O Decease"	Lloyd Chandler	Ralph Stanley	3:19
xv.	"In the Jailhouse Now"	Blind Blake, Jimmie Rodgers	The Soggy Lesser Boys	three:34
16.	"I Am a Man of Constant Sorrow" (with ring)	Burnett	The Soggy Bottom Boys	iv:sixteen
17.	"Indian War Whoop" (instrumental)	Hoyt Ming	John Hartford	ane:xxx
18.	"Lonesome Valley"	traditional	The Fairfield Four	4:07
19.	"Angel Ring"	traditional	The Stanley Brothers	ii:15
Total length:				60:18

tenth Anniversary Palatial Edition bonus disc

No.	Title	Creative person	Length
1.	"Hard Time Killing Floor Blues"	Colin Linden	1:fifteen
2.	"You Are My Sunshine"	Alan O'Bryant	3:29
iii.	"Tishomingo Blues"	John Hartford	2:01
4.	"I'll Fly Abroad"	The Kossoy Sisters with Erik Darling	ii:32
5.	"Large Rock Processed Mountain"	Van Dyke Parks	i:42
6.	"Tom Devil"	Ed Lewis & The Prisoners	5:19
7.	"Keep On The Sunny Side"	The Cox Family	two:36
8.	"Angel Band"	Hannah, Leah, Sarah Peasall and Robert Hamlett	0:58
ix.	"Big Rock Candy Mountain"	Norman Blake	2:18
ten.	"Little Sadie"	Norman Blake	1:50
11.	"In the Highways"	The Cox Family	two:12
12.	"Hogfoot"	John Hartford	3:47
13.	"The Lord Will Brand A Style"	The Fairfield Iv	two:36
14.	"In The Jailhouse Now"	Harley Allen	3:05
Total length:			35:40

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-league – 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 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 – 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 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 First 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 vocal, 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 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] 3 French Albums (SNEP)[30] 9 German Albums (Offizielle Height 100)[31] 87 New Zealand Albums (RMNZ)[32] 14 US Billboard 200[33] 1 U.s. Acme Country Albums (Billboard)[34] one U.s.a. Soundtrack Albums (Billboard)[35] i

Twelvemonth-end charts [edit] Yr-finish chart performance for O Brother, Where Fine art Thou? Chart (2001) Position Canadian Albums (Nilsen Soundscan) [36] 31 Canadian Country Albums (Nielsen Soundscan)[37] 2 US Billboard 200[38] 23 United states of america Pinnacle Country Albums (Billboard)[39] 2 US Soundtrack Albums (Billboard)[twoscore] 1 Chart (2002) Position Canadian Albums (Nielsen Soundscan)[41] 19 Canadian State Albums (Nielsen Soundscan)[42] three United states Billboard 200[43] 6 The states Height State Albums (Billboard)[44] 1 U.s. Soundtrack Albums (Billboard)[45] one Chart (2003) Position Us Soundtrack Albums (Billboard)[46] 11 Chart (2004) Position United states of america Soundtrack Albums (Billboard)[47] 14 Nautical 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 US Soundtrack Albums (Billboard)[51] 21 Chart (2017) Position U.s.a. Soundtrack Albums (Billboard)[52] 25

Certifications [edit]

See also [edit]

• Downwards from the Mountain

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External links [edit]

• Official website
• BBC News: O Blood brother, why art grand so pop?

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