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2000 soundtrack album by diverse artists

O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Soundtrack album by various artists
Released	December five, 2000 (2000-12-05)
Recorded	(modern tracks) Bound 1999
Studio	Audio Emporium, Nashville
Genre	Country folk bluegrass blues gospel Americana soundtrack
Length	61:24
Label	Lost Highway/Mercury
Producer	T Bone Burnett

O Brother, Where Art Thousand? is the soundtrack album of music from the 2000 American film of the same proper noun, written, directed and produced by the Coen Brothers and starring George Clooney, John Turturro, Tim Blake Nelson, and John Goodman.

The film is gear up in Mississippi during the Corking 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 as Harry McClintock's 1928 single "Large Rock Candy Mount"), almost tracks are modern recordings.

The soundtrack was reissued on August 23, 2011, with 14 new tracks that were non 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 picture show, not merely as a background or support. For this reason it was decided to record the soundtrack earlier filming.^[two] T-Bone Burnett and Alan Larman were invited to design collections of music.^[iii]

Dirges and other macabre songs recurring in Appalachian music,^[four] such equally "O Decease", "Lonesome Valley", "Affections Ring", and "I Am Weary", appear in the film as 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 song "O Expiry".^{[five] [6]}

"I Am a Human being of Constant Sorrow" has v variations: two are used in the film, one in the music video, and two in the album. Two of the variations feature the verses being sung back-to-dorsum, and the other three variations feature additional music between each poetry.^[7] The voices of the Soggy Bottom Boys were provided by Dan Tyminski (lead song on "I Am a Man of Abiding Sorrow"), Nashville songwriter Harley Allen, and the Nashville Bluegrass Ring'due south Pat Enright.^[8]

Reception and legacy [edit]

Professional ratings

Amass scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	83/100[9]
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[10]
The Austin Relate	[11]
Entertainment Weekly	B+[12]
Pitchfork	8.3/10[13]
Q	[14]
Rolling Rock	[xv]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide	[16]
Uncut	[17]

O Brother, Where Fine art One thousand? won the Grammy Accolade for Album of the Year in 2002, the Grammy Laurels for Best Country Collaboration with Vocals (for vocaliser Dan Tyminski, whose vocalisation overdubbed George Clooney'southward in the pic 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 person Country Song Performance for "O, Decease" by Ralph Stanley.

The album won the Album of the Year Accolade (only the second soundtrack to always do so) and Unmarried of the Year Honour for "I Am a Man of Constant Sorrow" at the Country Music Clan Awards.^[18] It 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 Year (for Alison Krauss and Gillian Welch on "I'll Wing Abroad").^[19]

In 2006, the anthology ranked No. 38 on CMT's 40 Greatest Albums in Country Music. In 2009, Rhapsody ranked information technology No. 8 on the "State's Best Albums of the Decade" list.^[twenty] Engine 145 Country Music Blog ranked information technology No. 5 on the "Land'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 l Near Of import 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 tenth anniversary edition was released featuring a bonus disc with 14 new tracks that were not included in the original album, all but ii of which were previously unreleased songs from Burnett'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 starting time certified Gold by the RIAA on February 9, 2001, and reached 8 times Platinum by October ten, 2007.^[25] It has sold 8,175,800 copies in the United States as of Oct 2019.^[26]

Track list [edit]

No.	Title	Writer(southward)	Artist	Length
1.	"Po' Lazarus"	traditional	James Carter and the Prisoners	4:31
2.	"Large Rock Candy Mountain"	Harry McClintock	Harry McClintock	ii:sixteen
3.	"You Are My Sunshine"	Jimmie Davis, Charles Mitchell	Norman Blake	iv:26
iv.	"Downwardly to the River to Pray"	traditional	Alison Krauss	2:55
five.	"I Am a Human of Constant Sorrow" (radio station version)	Dick Burnett	The Soggy Bottom Boys	iii:10
6.	"Hard Fourth dimension Killing Floor Blues"	Skip James	Chris Thomas King	2:42
vii.	"I Am a Man of Constant Sorrow" (instrumental)	Burnett	Norman Blake	4:28
8.	"Go along On the Sunny Side"	Ada Blenkhorn, J. Howard Entwisle	The Whites	3:33
ix.	"I'll Wing Away"	Albert E. Brumley	Alison Krauss, Gillian Welch	3:57
10.	"Didn't Leave Nobody only the Babe"	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 Residual)"	Pete Roberts (Pete Kuykendall)	The Cox Family unit	iii:13
13.	"I Am a Homo of Constant Sorrow" (instrumental)	Ed Haley	John Hartford	2:34
14.	"O Death"	Lloyd Chandler	Ralph Stanley	3:19
15.	"In the Jailhouse Now"	Bullheaded Blake, Jimmie Rodgers	The Soggy Bottom Boys	iii:34
xvi.	"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:thirty
eighteen.	"Lonesome Valley"	traditional	The Fairfield Four	4:07
19.	"Angel Band"	traditional	The Stanley Brothers	2:15
Full length:				sixty:18

tenth Ceremony Palatial Edition bonus disc

No.	Title	Creative person	Length
ane.	"Hard Time Killing Floor Blues"	Colin Linden	ane:fifteen
2.	"You Are My Sunshine"	Alan O'Bryant	three:29
3.	"Tishomingo Blues"	John Hartford	2:01
4.	"I'll Fly Away"	The Kossoy Sisters with Erik Darling	ii:32
5.	"Big Rock Candy Mount"	Van Dyke Parks	i:42
half dozen.	"Tom Devil"	Ed Lewis & The Prisoners	5:19
seven.	"Keep On The Sunny Side"	The Cox Family	ii:36
eight.	"Affections Band"	Hannah, Leah, Sarah Peasall and Robert Hamlett	0:58
9.	"Large Rock Processed Mountain"	Norman Blake	ii:18
10.	"Trivial Sadie"	Norman Blake	1:50
xi.	"In the Highways"	The Cox Family	2:12
12.	"Hogfoot"	John Hartford	3:47
13.	"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 Abrupt – Rhythm guitar The Stanley Brothers – Performers Ralph Stanley – Performer Sam Bush – 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 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 – 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 M. 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 Commencement Baptist Church of Norfolk Choir – Vocals Chris Sharp – Guitar Nathaniel Best – Pb 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 performance [edit]

Weekly charts [edit] Chart (2000–2002) Peak position Australian Albums (ARIA)[27] xv Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria)[28] seventy Canadian Albums (Billboard)[29] 3 French Albums (SNEP)[xxx] 9 German Albums (Offizielle Summit 100)[31] 87 New Zealand Albums (RMNZ)[32] 14 US Billboard 200[33] 1 US Tiptop Country Albums (Billboard)[34] ane US Soundtrack Albums (Billboard)[35] 1

Year-end charts [edit] Year-end chart performance for O Blood brother, Where Art Thou? Nautical chart (2001) Position Canadian Albums (Nilsen Soundscan) [36] 31 Canadian Country Albums (Nielsen Soundscan)[37] 2 Usa Billboard 200[38] 23 US Acme Country Albums (Billboard)[39] ii US Soundtrack Albums (Billboard)[twoscore] 1 Nautical chart (2002) Position Canadian Albums (Nielsen Soundscan)[41] 19 Canadian Country Albums (Nielsen Soundscan)[42] 3 United states of america Billboard 200[43] vi US Top Country Albums (Billboard)[44] 1 US Soundtrack Albums (Billboard)[45] 1 Chart (2003) Position US Soundtrack Albums (Billboard)[46] eleven Nautical chart (2004) Position US Soundtrack Albums (Billboard)[47] fourteen Chart (2013) Position United states of america Soundtrack Albums (Billboard)[48] 25 Chart (2014) Position US Soundtrack Albums (Billboard)[49] 24 Chart (2015) Position U.s. Soundtrack Albums (Billboard)[fifty] 22 Chart (2016) Position The states 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 Brother, why art thou so popular?

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