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2000 soundtrack album by diverse artists

O Brother, Where Fine art Thou?
Soundtrack album by various artists
Released	Dec 5, 2000 (2000-12-05)
Recorded	(modern tracks) Spring 1999
Studio	Audio 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 1000? is the soundtrack anthology 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 Great Depression. The soundtrack, produced by T-Bone Burnett, uses bluegrass, country, gospel, blues, and Southern folk music appropriate to the fourth dimension flow. With the exception of a few vintage tracks (such as Harry McClintock'southward 1928 single "Big Rock Candy Mount"), most tracks are modernistic 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 Brother sessions."^[i]

Development and audio [edit]

The soundtrack was conceived as a major component of the picture show, non merely equally a groundwork or back up. For this reason information technology 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,^[four] such equally "O Death", "Lonesome Valley", "Angel Band", and "I Am Weary", appear in the motion picture as a dissimilarity to the bright, cheerful songs like "Continue On the Sunnyside" and "In the Highways". Ralph Stanley of The Stanley Brothers personally recorded the a cappella folk song "O Decease".^{[five] [6]}

"I Am a Homo of Abiding Sorrow" has v variations: two are used in the movie, one in the music video, and two in the album. 2 of the variations feature the verses beingness sung back-to-back, and the other three variations feature additional music between each poetry.^[seven] The voices of the Soggy Bottom Boys were provided by Dan Tyminski (lead vocal on "I Am a Man of Abiding Sorrow"), Nashville songwriter Harley Allen, and the Nashville Bluegrass Ring'south 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 Relate	[eleven]
Amusement Weekly	B+[12]
Pitchfork	8.iii/10[thirteen]
Q	[xiv]
Rolling Stone	[xv]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide	[16]
Uncut	[17]

O Brother, Where Art G? won the Grammy Honor for Album of the Year in 2002, the Grammy Award for Best State Collaboration with Vocals (for vocalist Dan Tyminski, whose voice overdubbed George Clooney'southward in the film on "I Am a Human of Constant Sorrow", Nashville songwriter Harley Allen, and the Nashville Bluegrass Band'southward Pat Enright), and the Grammy Award for Best Male person Country Vocal Operation for "O, Death" by Ralph Stanley.

The album won the Album of the Year Award (only the second soundtrack to e'er do so) and Unmarried of the Year Honour for "I Am a Human being of Constant Sorrow" at the Country Music Association Awards.^[eighteen] It also won the Anthology of the Yr Award at the 37th Academy of Country Music Awards and took dwelling 2 International Bluegrass Music Awards: Album of the Year and Gospel Recorded Operation of the Year (for Alison Krauss and Gillian Welch on "I'll Fly Away").^[19]

In 2006, the album ranked No. 38 on CMT's 40 Greatest Albums in Country Music. In 2009, Rhapsody ranked it No. 8 on the "Country'south Best Albums of the Decade" listing.^[twenty] Engine 145 Country Music Weblog ranked information technology No. 5 on the "State's Best Albums of the Decade" list.^[21] In 2010, All Songs Considered, a programme 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, Downward from the Mountain.

On Baronial 23, 2011, a 10th ceremony edition was released featuring a bonus disc with fourteen new tracks that were non included in the original album, all but two of which were previously unreleased songs from Burnett'due south original sessions.^{[23] [24]}

Commercial performance [edit]

The album charted at No. ane 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 commencement certified Gold past the RIAA on February 9, 2001, and reached eight times Platinum past October ten, 2007.^[25] Information technology has sold viii,175,800 copies in the United States equally of October 2019.^[26]

Rails listing [edit]

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Artist	Length
1.	"Po' Lazarus"	traditional	James Carter and the Prisoners	four:31
2.	"Big Stone Candy Mountain"	Harry McClintock	Harry McClintock	two:16
iii.	"Yous 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 Man of Constant Sorrow" (radio station version)	Dick Burnett	The Soggy Lesser Boys	three:10
vi.	"Difficult Fourth dimension Killing Floor Blues"	Skip James	Chris Thomas King	two:42
7.	"I Am a Human being of Abiding Sorrow" (instrumental)	Burnett	Norman Blake	4:28
eight.	"Keep On the Sunny Side"	Ada Blenkhorn, J. Howard Entwisle	The Whites	three:33
nine.	"I'll Fly Away"	Albert E. Brumley	Alison Krauss, Gillian Welch	3:57
10.	"Didn't Leave Nobody but 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 Rest)"	Pete Roberts (Pete Kuykendall)	The Cox Family unit	3:thirteen
13.	"I Am a Homo of Constant Sorrow" (instrumental)	Ed Haley	John Hartford	2:34
14.	"O Death"	Lloyd Chandler	Ralph Stanley	three:19
15.	"In the Jailhouse Now"	Bullheaded Blake, Jimmie Rodgers	The Soggy Bottom Boys	3:34
xvi.	"I Am a Man of Abiding Sorrow" (with band)	Burnett	The Soggy Bottom Boys	4:16
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	2:15
Total length:				60:18

10th Ceremony Deluxe Edition bonus disc

No.	Title	Artist	Length
1.	"Hard Time Killing Floor Blues"	Colin Linden	1:15
2.	"You Are My Sunshine"	Alan O'Bryant	3:29
3.	"Tishomingo Blues"	John Hartford	2:01
iv.	"I'll Fly Away"	The Kossoy Sisters with Erik Darling	ii:32
five.	"Large Rock Processed Mountain"	Van Dyke Parks	i:42
vi.	"Tom Devil"	Ed Lewis & The Prisoners	5:19
seven.	"Keep On The Sunny Side"	The Cox Family	2:36
viii.	"Affections Ring"	Hannah, Leah, Sarah Peasall and Robert Hamlett	0:58
9.	"Big Stone Processed Mountain"	Norman Blake	2:18
10.	"Piddling Sadie"	Norman Blake	1:50
11.	"In the Highways"	The Cox Family	2:12
12.	"Hogfoot"	John Hartford	3:47
13.	"The Lord Volition Brand A Way"	The Fairfield Four	two:36
14.	"In The Jailhouse Now"	Harley Allen	three:05
Full 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 – 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 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, 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 Beginning 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 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) Peak position Australian Albums (ARIA)[27] 15 Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria)[28] 70 Canadian Albums (Billboard)[29] three French Albums (SNEP)[30] 9 German Albums (Offizielle Tiptop 100)[31] 87 New Zealand Albums (RMNZ)[32] fourteen US Billboard 200[33] 1 Usa Top Country Albums (Billboard)[34] 1 US Soundtrack Albums (Billboard)[35] 1

Year-terminate charts [edit] Year-cease chart performance for O Brother, Where Art Thou? Chart (2001) Position Canadian Albums (Nilsen Soundscan) [36] 31 Canadian Land Albums (Nielsen Soundscan)[37] 2 US Billboard 200[38] 23 US Top Land Albums (Billboard)[39] two U.s. Soundtrack Albums (Billboard)[twoscore] ane Chart (2002) Position Canadian Albums (Nielsen Soundscan)[41] xix Canadian Country Albums (Nielsen Soundscan)[42] three U.s.a. Billboard 200[43] 6 The states Height Country Albums (Billboard)[44] 1 United states Soundtrack Albums (Billboard)[45] 1 Chart (2003) Position United states Soundtrack Albums (Billboard)[46] eleven Chart (2004) Position US Soundtrack Albums (Billboard)[47] 14 Nautical chart (2013) Position U.s.a. Soundtrack Albums (Billboard)[48] 25 Chart (2014) Position US Soundtrack Albums (Billboard)[49] 24 Nautical chart (2015) Position U.s. Soundtrack Albums (Billboard)[50] 22 Chart (2016) Position U.s. Soundtrack Albums (Billboard)[51] 21 Chart (2017) Position Us Soundtrack Albums (Billboard)[52] 25

Certifications [edit]

See also [edit]

• Downwardly from the Mountain

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External links [edit]

• Official website
• BBC News: O Blood brother, why art thou so popular?

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