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2000 soundtrack album past various artists

O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Soundtrack album by various artists
Released	December five, 2000 (2000-12-05)
Recorded	(mod tracks) Spring 1999
Studio	Audio 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 Grand? is the soundtrack album of music from the 2000 American motion-picture show of the aforementioned name, written, directed and produced by the Coen Brothers and starring George Clooney, John Turturro, Tim Blake Nelson, and John Goodman.

The flick is ready in Mississippi during the Great Depression. The soundtrack, produced past T-Bone Burnett, uses bluegrass, state, gospel, blues, 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 Rock Candy Mountain"), almost tracks are modern recordings.

The soundtrack was reissued on August 23, 2011, with 14 new tracks that were non included in the original anthology, "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 but as a groundwork or support. For this reason it was decided to record the soundtrack before filming.^[2] T-Os Burnett and Alan Larman were invited to design collections of music.^[3]

Dirges and other macabre songs recurring in Appalachian music,^[iv] such as "O Death", "Lonesome Valley", "Angel Band", and "I Am Weary", appear in the motion picture as a dissimilarity 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 song "O Decease".^{[v] [6]}

"I Am a Man of Constant Sorrow" has v variations: two are used in the moving-picture show, one in the music video, and 2 in the album. Two of the variations feature the verses being sung back-to-dorsum, and the other three variations characteristic additional music betwixt each verse.^[7] 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.^[viii]

Reception and legacy [edit]

Professional ratings

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

O Brother, Where Art Thou? won the Grammy Award for Anthology of the Year in 2002, the Grammy Laurels for Best Land 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 Award for Best Male Country Vocal Functioning for "O, Expiry" by Ralph Stanley.

The anthology won the Album of the Yr Honour (but 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 Association Awards.^[18] Information technology besides won the Album of the Year Honour at the 37th Academy of Country Music Awards and took dwelling house 2 International Bluegrass Music Awards: Album of the Yr and Gospel Recorded Functioning of the Year (for Alison Krauss and Gillian Welch on "I'll Wing Away").^[19]

In 2006, the anthology ranked No. 38 on CMT'south 40 Greatest Albums in State Music. In 2009, Rhapsody ranked it No. eight on the "Country's Best Albums of the Decade" list.^[20] Engine 145 Country Music Blog ranked it No. 5 on the "Country's All-time Albums of the Decade" listing.^[21] In 2010, All Songs Considered, a program 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 Mountain.

On August 23, 2011, a 10th anniversary edition was released featuring a bonus disc with fourteen new tracks that were non included in the original album, all simply 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 Peak Country Albums Nautical chart. The soundtrack CD became a best seller; it was first certified Gold by the RIAA on Feb 9, 2001, and reached eight times Platinum by October 10, 2007.^[25] Information technology has sold 8,175,800 copies in the Us as of Oct 2019.^[26]

Track listing [edit]

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Artist	Length
ane.	"Po' Lazarus"	traditional	James Carter and the Prisoners	4:31
2.	"Big Rock Processed Mount"	Harry McClintock	Harry McClintock	2:xvi
iii.	"You Are My Sunshine"	Jimmie Davis, Charles Mitchell	Norman Blake	iv:26
four.	"Downwardly to the River to Pray"	traditional	Alison Krauss	2:55
5.	"I Am a Man of Abiding Sorrow" (radio station version)	Dick Burnett	The Soggy Bottom Boys	3:10
6.	"Hard Time Killing Floor Dejection"	Skip James	Chris Thomas King	2:42
7.	"I Am a Homo of Constant Sorrow" (instrumental)	Burnett	Norman Blake	iv:28
eight.	"Proceed On the Sunny Side"	Ada Blenkhorn, J. Howard Entwisle	The Whites	3:33
nine.	"I'll Wing Away"	Albert E. Brumley	Alison Krauss, Gillian Welch	3:57
10.	"Didn't Leave Nobody but the Babe"	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 Rest)"	Pete Roberts (Pete Kuykendall)	The Cox Family unit	iii:thirteen
xiii.	"I Am a Man of Constant Sorrow" (instrumental)	Ed Haley	John Hartford	two:34
fourteen.	"O Expiry"	Lloyd Chandler	Ralph Stanley	three:nineteen
xv.	"In the Jailhouse At present"	Blind Blake, Jimmie Rodgers	The Soggy Bottom Boys	3:34
sixteen.	"I Am a Human being of Constant Sorrow" (with band)	Burnett	The Soggy Bottom Boys	4:16
17.	"Indian War Whoop" (instrumental)	Hoyt Ming	John Hartford	one:30
18.	"Lonesome Valley"	traditional	The Fairfield 4	4:07
19.	"Angel Band"	traditional	The Stanley Brothers	ii:xv
Full length:				60:18

tenth Anniversary Palatial Edition bonus disc

No.	Title	Artist	Length
1.	"Hard Time Killing Flooring Dejection"	Colin Linden	ane:15
2.	"You lot Are My Sunshine"	Alan O'Bryant	3:29
three.	"Tishomingo Blues"	John Hartford	2:01
4.	"I'll Fly Away"	The Kossoy Sisters with Erik Darling	two:32
5.	"Big Stone Processed Mount"	Van Dyke Parks	i:42
6.	"Tom Devil"	Ed Lewis & The Prisoners	v:19
7.	"Keep On The Sunny Side"	The Cox Family	2:36
8.	"Affections Band"	Hannah, Leah, Sarah Peasall and Robert Hamlett	0:58
9.	"Big Rock Candy Mountain"	Norman Blake	2:18
10.	"Fiddling Sadie"	Norman Blake	1:50
11.	"In the Highways"	The Cox Family	ii:12
12.	"Hogfoot"	John Hartford	3:47
xiii.	"The Lord Will Make A Fashion"	The Fairfield 4	two:36
xiv.	"In The Jailhouse Now"	Harley Allen	iii: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-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, atomic number 82

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 King – Guitar, vocals David Rawlings – Vocals Gavin Lurssen – Mastering Mike Piersante – Mixing Peter Kurland – Location recording First Baptist Church of Norfolk Choir – Vocals Chris Precipitous – 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 performance [edit]

Weekly charts [edit] Chart (2000–2002) Tiptop position Australian Albums (ARIA)[27] xv Austrian Albums (Ö3 Republic of austria)[28] lxx Canadian Albums (Billboard)[29] 3 French Albums (SNEP)[thirty] 9 German Albums (Offizielle Top 100)[31] 87 New Zealand Albums (RMNZ)[32] 14 U.s. Billboard 200[33] i US Top Country Albums (Billboard)[34] 1 The states Soundtrack Albums (Billboard)[35] i

Year-end charts [edit] Year-end chart performance for O Brother, Where Art G? Chart (2001) Position Canadian Albums (Nilsen Soundscan) [36] 31 Canadian Country Albums (Nielsen Soundscan)[37] 2 U.s.a. Billboard 200[38] 23 US Elevation Country Albums (Billboard)[39] 2 US Soundtrack Albums (Billboard)[40] 1 Chart (2002) Position Canadian Albums (Nielsen Soundscan)[41] nineteen Canadian Country Albums (Nielsen Soundscan)[42] 3 US Billboard 200[43] vi US Pinnacle Country Albums (Billboard)[44] 1 Usa Soundtrack Albums (Billboard)[45] 1 Chart (2003) Position The states Soundtrack Albums (Billboard)[46] 11 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 US Soundtrack Albums (Billboard)[l] 22 Nautical chart (2016) Position US Soundtrack Albums (Billboard)[51] 21 Chart (2017) Position U.s.a. Soundtrack Albums (Billboard)[52] 25

Certifications [edit]

Encounter also [edit]

• Down from the Mountain

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External links [edit]

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

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