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2000 soundtrack album by diverse artists

O Brother, Where Fine art Grand?
Soundtrack anthology by various artists
Released	December 5, 2000 (2000-12-05)
Recorded	(modernistic tracks) Spring 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 anthology of music from the 2000 American movie of the same proper 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 Nifty Depression. The soundtrack, produced by T-Bone Burnett, uses bluegrass, country, gospel, dejection, and Southern folk music appropriate to the time period. With the exception of a few vintage tracks (such as Harry McClintock's 1928 single "Big Stone Candy Mountain"), most tracks are modern recordings.

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

Evolution and sound [edit]

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

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 as a contrast to the bright, cheerful songs like "Go on On the Sunnyside" and "In the Highways". Ralph Stanley of The Stanley Brothers personally recorded the a cappella folk song "O Death".^{[5] [six]}

"I Am a Human of Constant Sorrow" has v variations: two are used in the film, one in the music video, and two in the album. 2 of the variations feature the verses being sung back-to-back, and the other iii variations feature additional music betwixt each verse.^[7] The voices of the Soggy Bottom Boys were provided past Dan Tyminski (lead vocal on "I Am a Human of Constant Sorrow"), Nashville songwriter Harley Allen, and the Nashville Bluegrass Band's Pat Enright.^[eight]

Reception and legacy [edit]

Professional ratings

Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	83/100[9]
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[ten]
The Austin Chronicle	[eleven]
Entertainment Weekly	B+[12]
Pitchfork	8.3/10[13]
Q	[fourteen]
Rolling Stone	[15]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide	[16]
Uncut	[17]

O Brother, Where Art Thou? won the Grammy Award for Anthology of the Year in 2002, the Grammy Award for All-time Country Collaboration with Vocals (for singer Dan Tyminski, whose voice overdubbed George Clooney'southward 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 Laurels for Best Male State Vocal Functioning for "O, Decease" by Ralph Stanley.

The anthology won the Anthology of the Year Award (just the 2d soundtrack to ever practise so) and Unmarried of the Year Award for "I Am a Man of Constant Sorrow" at the State Music Association Awards.^[18] Information technology also won the Album of the Year Award at the 37th Academy of Country Music Awards and took domicile 2 International Bluegrass Music Awards: Album of the Year and Gospel Recorded Performance of the Twelvemonth (for Alison Krauss and Gillian Welch on "I'll Wing Abroad").^[19]

In 2006, the album ranked No. 38 on CMT'due south 40 Greatest Albums in Land Music. In 2009, Rhapsody ranked it No. 8 on the "Country'southward Best Albums of the Decade" list.^[twenty] Engine 145 State Music Blog ranked it No. 5 on the "Country'south All-time Albums of the Decade" list.^[21] In 2010, All Songs Considered, a program on NPR, included the soundtrack album on their list of "The Decade's 50 Almost 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 moving-picture show, Down from the Mountain.

On Baronial 23, 2011, a tenth ceremony edition was released featuring a bonus disc with 14 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 Chart. The soundtrack CD became a best seller; information technology was first certified Gilt by the RIAA on Feb nine, 2001, and reached 8 times Platinum by Oct 10, 2007.^[25] It has sold eight,175,800 copies in the U.s.a. as of Oct 2019.^[26]

Track listing [edit]

No.	Championship	Author(south)	Artist	Length
1.	"Po' Lazarus"	traditional	James Carter and the Prisoners	4:31
two.	"Big Rock Candy Mountain"	Harry McClintock	Harry McClintock	2:sixteen
3.	"Yous Are My Sunshine"	Jimmie Davis, Charles Mitchell	Norman Blake	4:26
4.	"Downwardly to the River to Pray"	traditional	Alison Krauss	2:55
five.	"I Am a Homo of Constant Sorrow" (radio station version)	Dick Burnett	The Soggy Bottom Boys	3:10
vi.	"Difficult Time Killing Floor Blues"	Skip James	Chris Thomas King	ii:42
seven.	"I Am a Man of Constant Sorrow" (instrumental)	Burnett	Norman Blake	iv:28
8.	"Keep On the Sunny Side"	Ada Blenkhorn, J. Howard Entwisle	The Whites	3:33
nine.	"I'll Fly Away"	Albert E. Brumley	Alison Krauss, Gillian Welch	3:57
10.	"Didn't Leave Nobody simply the Infant"	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 Residue)"	Pete Roberts (Pete Kuykendall)	The Cox Family	3:13
13.	"I Am a Homo of Abiding Sorrow" (instrumental)	Ed Haley	John Hartford	ii:34
fourteen.	"O Death"	Lloyd Chandler	Ralph Stanley	3:nineteen
xv.	"In the Jailhouse Now"	Blind Blake, Jimmie Rodgers	The Soggy Bottom Boys	3:34
sixteen.	"I Am a Man of Abiding Sorrow" (with band)	Burnett	The Soggy Bottom Boys	4:xvi
17.	"Indian War Whoop" (instrumental)	Hoyt Ming	John Hartford	1:thirty
xviii.	"Lonesome Valley"	traditional	The Fairfield Four	4:07
19.	"Angel Ring"	traditional	The Stanley Brothers	2:15
Full length:				60:xviii

10th Ceremony Palatial Edition bonus disc

No.	Championship	Artist	Length
i.	"Difficult Time Killing Floor Blues"	Colin Linden	1:15
2.	"You lot Are My Sunshine"	Alan O'Bryant	3:29
three.	"Tishomingo Blues"	John Hartford	two:01
4.	"I'll Wing Away"	The Kossoy Sisters with Erik Darling	2:32
5.	"Big Rock Processed Mountain"	Van Dyke Parks	1:42
half-dozen.	"Tom Devil"	Ed Lewis & The Prisoners	5:19
vii.	"Keep On The Sunny Side"	The Cox Family	2:36
8.	"Angel Band"	Hannah, Leah, Sarah Peasall and Robert Hamlett	0:58
9.	"Big Stone Processed Mountain"	Norman Blake	2:18
10.	"Little Sadie"	Norman Blake	one:50
eleven.	"In the Highways"	The Cox Family	two:12
12.	"Hogfoot"	John Hartford	iii:47
13.	"The Lord Volition Make A Way"	The Fairfield Iv	ii:36
14.	"In The Jailhouse Now"	Harley Allen	iii:05
Full length:			35:40

Personnel [edit]

Norman Blake – Performer, guitar, vocals Jerry Douglas – Dobro Alison Krauss – Vocals, harmony vocals Chris Abrupt – 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 Block – Banjo Curtis Burch – Dobro T Os Burnett – Arranger, producer The Cox Family unit: 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 Loma – 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 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 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) Elevation position Australian Albums (ARIA)[27] xv Austrian Albums (Ö3 Republic of austria)[28] 70 Canadian Albums (Billboard)[29] three French Albums (SNEP)[30] ix German Albums (Offizielle Top 100)[31] 87 New Zealand Albums (RMNZ)[32] 14 Us Billboard 200[33] 1 US Top Country Albums (Billboard)[34] 1 United states of america Soundtrack Albums (Billboard)[35] ane

Year-terminate charts [edit] Year-cease chart functioning for O Brother, Where Art Thou? Chart (2001) Position Canadian Albums (Nilsen Soundscan) [36] 31 Canadian Country Albums (Nielsen Soundscan)[37] 2 US Billboard 200[38] 23 The states Top Country Albums (Billboard)[39] two US Soundtrack Albums (Billboard)[40] 1 Chart (2002) Position Canadian Albums (Nielsen Soundscan)[41] nineteen Canadian Country Albums (Nielsen Soundscan)[42] 3 Usa Billboard 200[43] vi The states Top Land Albums (Billboard)[44] 1 US Soundtrack Albums (Billboard)[45] 1 Nautical chart (2003) Position United states of america Soundtrack Albums (Billboard)[46] 11 Chart (2004) Position US Soundtrack Albums (Billboard)[47] 14 Chart (2013) Position U.s.a. Soundtrack Albums (Billboard)[48] 25 Chart (2014) Position US Soundtrack Albums (Billboard)[49] 24 Chart (2015) Position Usa Soundtrack Albums (Billboard)[50] 22 Chart (2016) Position United states of america Soundtrack Albums (Billboard)[51] 21 Nautical chart (2017) Position U.s. Soundtrack Albums (Billboard)[52] 25

Certifications [edit]

See likewise [edit]

• Downward from the Mountain

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External links [edit]

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

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