List of Songs From the Movie O Brother Where Art Thou

2000 soundtrack album by diverse artists

O Blood brother, Where Art Thou?
Soundtrack album by various artists
Released	Dec 5, 2000 (2000-12-05)
Recorded	(mod tracks) Spring 1999
Studio	Sound Emporium, Nashville
Genre	Country folk bluegrass blues gospel Americana soundtrack
Length	61:24
Characterization	Lost Highway/Mercury
Producer	T Bone Burnett

O Brother, Where Fine 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 motion-picture show is ready in Mississippi during the Great Low. The soundtrack, produced past T-Os Burnett, uses bluegrass, country, gospel, blues, and Southern folk music advisable to the time period. With the exception of a few vintage tracks (such as Harry McClintock'southward 1928 single "Large Rock Processed Mountain"), most tracks are modern 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 Blood brother sessions."^[1]

Development and sound [edit]

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

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 vivid, 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".^{[v] [6]}

"I Am a Human being of Constant Sorrow" has five variations: two are used in the picture show, one in the music video, and two in the album. Two of the variations feature the verses beingness sung back-to-dorsum, and the other three variations characteristic boosted 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	[ten]
The Austin Chronicle	[11]
Entertainment Weekly	B+[12]
Pitchfork	eight.3/ten[13]
Q	[fourteen]
Rolling Stone	[15]
The Rolling Stone Anthology Guide	[xvi]
Uncut	[17]

O Blood brother, Where Art Thou? won the Grammy Award for Album of the Year in 2002, the Grammy Honor for All-time Land Collaboration with Vocals (for singer Dan Tyminski, whose voice overdubbed George Clooney's in the film on "I Am a Man of Constant Sorrow", Nashville songwriter Harley Allen, and the Nashville Bluegrass Band'south Pat Enright), and the Grammy Award for All-time Male Country Vocal Operation for "O, Death" by Ralph Stanley.

The album won the Album of the Year Award (just the second soundtrack to always do so) and Single of the Year Award for "I Am a Man of Abiding Sorrow" at the Country Music Clan Awards.^[18] Information technology also won the Album of the Yr Honor at the 37th Academy of Country Music Awards and took dwelling house 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").^[19]

In 2006, the anthology ranked No. 38 on CMT's 40 Greatest Albums in Country Music. In 2009, Rhapsody ranked it No. eight on the "Land'due south All-time Albums of the Decade" list.^[20] Engine 145 Country Music Web log ranked it No. 5 on the "Country'due south All-time Albums of the Decade" listing.^[21] In 2010, All Songs Considered, a plan on NPR, included the soundtrack album on their list of "The Decade's 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, Down from the Mount.

On Baronial 23, 2011, a 10th anniversary edition was released featuring a bonus disc with 14 new tracks that were non included in the original anthology, all only two of which were previously unreleased songs from Burnett'due south 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; it was first certified Aureate by the RIAA on February ix, 2001, and reached 8 times Platinum by October 10, 2007.^[25] It has sold 8,175,800 copies in the United States every bit of Oct 2019.^[26]

Runway listing [edit]

No.	Title	Author(s)	Artist	Length
i.	"Po' Lazarus"	traditional	James Carter and the Prisoners	4:31
2.	"Big Rock Candy Mountain"	Harry McClintock	Harry McClintock	2:sixteen
iii.	"You lot Are My Sunshine"	Jimmie Davis, Charles Mitchell	Norman Blake	iv:26
four.	"Down to the River to Pray"	traditional	Alison Krauss	two:55
5.	"I Am a Man of Constant Sorrow" (radio station version)	Dick Burnett	The Soggy Lesser Boys	3:x
6.	"Hard Time Killing Floor Blues"	Skip James	Chris Thomas King	ii:42
7.	"I Am a Man of Abiding Sorrow" (instrumental)	Burnett	Norman Blake	four:28
8.	"Keep On the Sunny Side"	Ada Blenkhorn, J. Howard Entwisle	The Whites	iii:33
nine.	"I'll Fly Away"	Albert E. Brumley	Alison Krauss, Gillian Welch	iii:57
10.	"Didn't Leave Nobody but 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 Balance)"	Pete Roberts (Pete Kuykendall)	The Cox Family	iii:thirteen
13.	"I Am a Man of Constant Sorrow" (instrumental)	Ed Haley	John Hartford	2:34
14.	"O Death"	Lloyd Chandler	Ralph Stanley	iii:xix
15.	"In the Jailhouse At present"	Blind Blake, Jimmie Rodgers	The Soggy Bottom Boys	iii:34
16.	"I Am a Man of Constant Sorrow" (with band)	Burnett	The Soggy Lesser Boys	4:xvi
17.	"Indian War Whoop" (instrumental)	Hoyt Ming	John Hartford	one:30
xviii.	"Lonesome Valley"	traditional	The Fairfield 4	4:07
nineteen.	"Angel Band"	traditional	The Stanley Brothers	ii:15
Total length:				60:18

tenth Ceremony Deluxe Edition bonus disc

No.	Title	Artist	Length
ane.	"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
four.	"I'll Fly Abroad"	The Kossoy Sisters with Erik Darling	2:32
5.	"Big Rock Candy Mountain"	Van Dyke Parks	1:42
6.	"Tom Devil"	Ed Lewis & The Prisoners	5:19
seven.	"Go along On The Sunny Side"	The Cox Family unit	ii:36
8.	"Angel Band"	Hannah, Leah, Sarah Peasall and Robert Hamlett	0:58
9.	"Big Rock Processed Mountain"	Norman Blake	2:18
10.	"Little Sadie"	Norman Blake	1:50
11.	"In the Highways"	The Cox Family	2:12
12.	"Hogfoot"	John Hartford	3:47
xiii.	"The Lord Will Make A Way"	The Fairfield Four	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 Sharp – Rhythm guitar The Stanley Brothers – Performers Ralph Stanley – Performer Sam Bush-league – Mandolin Emmylou Harris – Performer John Hartford – Fiddle, 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, pb

James Colina – 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 M. 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 Start Baptist Church of Norfolk Choir – Vocals Chris Sharp – Guitar Nathaniel All-time – Atomic number 82 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 operation [edit]

Weekly charts [edit] Chart (2000–2002) Peak position Australian Albums (ARIA)[27] 15 Austrian Albums (Ö3 Republic of austria)[28] 70 Canadian Albums (Billboard)[29] three French Albums (SNEP)[xxx] 9 German Albums (Offizielle Peak 100)[31] 87 New Zealand Albums (RMNZ)[32] xiv Usa Billboard 200[33] 1 US Top State Albums (Billboard)[34] 1 Usa Soundtrack Albums (Billboard)[35] 1

Year-end charts [edit] Year-end nautical chart performance for O Brother, Where Fine art K? Nautical chart (2001) Position Canadian Albums (Nilsen Soundscan) [36] 31 Canadian Land Albums (Nielsen Soundscan)[37] 2 US Billboard 200[38] 23 U.s. Top Country Albums (Billboard)[39] two U.s.a. Soundtrack Albums (Billboard)[40] 1 Chart (2002) Position Canadian Albums (Nielsen Soundscan)[41] 19 Canadian Country Albums (Nielsen Soundscan)[42] three U.s. Billboard 200[43] 6 US Tiptop Land Albums (Billboard)[44] 1 United states Soundtrack Albums (Billboard)[45] 1 Chart (2003) Position US Soundtrack Albums (Billboard)[46] 11 Nautical chart (2004) Position US Soundtrack Albums (Billboard)[47] 14 Chart (2013) Position U.s. Soundtrack Albums (Billboard)[48] 25 Chart (2014) Position US Soundtrack Albums (Billboard)[49] 24 Nautical chart (2015) Position U.s. Soundtrack Albums (Billboard)[l] 22 Nautical chart (2016) Position US Soundtrack Albums (Billboard)[51] 21 Chart (2017) Position US Soundtrack Albums (Billboard)[52] 25

Certifications [edit]

See also [edit]

• Downwards from the Mountain

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

External links [edit]

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

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