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2000 soundtrack album by various artists

O Brother, Where Fine art Thou?
Soundtrack album by various artists
Released	December 5, 2000 (2000-12-05)
Recorded	(mod tracks) Jump 1999
Studio	Sound Emporium, Nashville
Genre	Country folk bluegrass blues gospel Americana soundtrack
Length	61:24
Characterization	Lost Highway/Mercury
Producer	T Os Burnett

O Brother, Where Art Thou? is the soundtrack anthology of music from the 2000 American film 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 film is gear up in Mississippi during the Great Depression. 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 every bit Harry McClintock'southward 1928 unmarried "Big Rock Processed Mount"), most tracks are mod recordings.

The soundtrack was reissued on August 23, 2011, with xiv 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]

Evolution and sound [edit]

The soundtrack was conceived as a major component of the moving-picture show, not just equally a background or support. For this reason it was decided to tape the soundtrack earlier 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,^[4] such as "O Decease", "Lonesome Valley", "Angel Band", and "I Am Weary", appear in the film as a contrast 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 Death".^{[five] [6]}

"I Am a Man of Constant Sorrow" has five variations: two are used in the movie, one in the music video, and two in the album. Ii of the variations feature the verses beingness sung back-to-back, and the other three variations characteristic additional music between 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.^[8]

Reception and legacy [edit]

Professional ratings

Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	83/100[ix]
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[x]
The Austin Chronicle	[11]
Entertainment Weekly	B+[12]
Pitchfork	viii.3/10[thirteen]
Q	[14]
Rolling Rock	[15]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide	[16]
Uncut	[17]

O Brother, Where Fine art Grand? won the Grammy Honour for Album of the Year in 2002, the Grammy Award for Best Land Collaboration with Vocals (for vocaliser 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 Honour for Best Male State Vocal Performance for "O, Expiry" past Ralph Stanley.

The anthology won the Album of the Year Accolade (merely the second soundtrack to ever do so) and Single of the Year Award for "I Am a Man of Abiding Sorrow" at the Country Music Association Awards.^[xviii] It also won the Album of the Yr Award at the 37th Academy of Land Music Awards and took home ii International Bluegrass Music Awards: Anthology of the Yr and Gospel Recorded Performance 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 Land Music. In 2009, Rhapsody ranked it No. 8 on the "State'southward Best Albums of the Decade" listing.^[twenty] Engine 145 Land Music Blog ranked information technology No. 5 on the "Country's Best 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 Nearly Of import Recordings".^[22]

Some of the artists on the soundtrack anthology played a concert at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, Tennessee, which was recorded in the 2000 documentary moving picture, Downwards from the Mountain.

On August 23, 2011, a 10th anniversary edition was released featuring a bonus disc with 14 new tracks that were not included in the original album, all merely two of which were previously unreleased songs from Burnett's original sessions.^{[23] [24]}

Commercial functioning [edit]

The album charted at No. 1 on Billboard 200 In 2001, and spent over xx weeks on the Billboard Height Land Albums Chart. The soundtrack CD became a best seller; it was outset certified Gold by the RIAA on Feb ix, 2001, and reached 8 times Platinum past October 10, 2007.^[25] It has sold 8,175,800 copies in the Us as of October 2019.^[26]

Track list [edit]

No.	Title	Author(southward)	Artist	Length
1.	"Po' Lazarus"	traditional	James Carter and the Prisoners	4:31
2.	"Big Rock Candy Mountain"	Harry McClintock	Harry McClintock	2:sixteen
3.	"You Are My Sunshine"	Jimmie Davis, Charles Mitchell	Norman Blake	four:26
4.	"Down to the River to Pray"	traditional	Alison Krauss	ii:55
5.	"I Am a Man of Constant Sorrow" (radio station version)	Dick Burnett	The Soggy Bottom Boys	3:x
six.	"Hard Time Killing Floor Blues"	Skip James	Chris Thomas King	2:42
7.	"I Am a Man of Constant Sorrow" (instrumental)	Burnett	Norman Blake	4:28
8.	"Proceed On the Sunny Side"	Ada Blenkhorn, J. Howard Entwisle	The Whites	iii:33
ix.	"I'll Fly Away"	Albert E. Brumley	Alison Krauss, Gillian Welch	3:57
10.	"Didn't Leave Nobody simply the Baby"	traditional	Emmylou Harris, Alison Krauss, Gillian Welch	1:57
11.	"In the Highways"	Maybelle Carter	The Peasall Sisters	i:35
12.	"I Am Weary (Let Me Rest)"	Pete Roberts (Pete Kuykendall)	The Cox Family unit	3:13
xiii.	"I Am a Human of Constant Sorrow" (instrumental)	Ed Haley	John Hartford	2:34
14.	"O Death"	Lloyd Chandler	Ralph Stanley	iii:xix
15.	"In the Jailhouse Now"	Blind Blake, Jimmie Rodgers	The Soggy Bottom Boys	3:34
16.	"I Am a Man of Constant Sorrow" (with band)	Burnett	The Soggy Bottom Boys	4:16
17.	"Indian State of war Whoop" (instrumental)	Hoyt Ming	John Hartford	1:thirty
18.	"Lonesome Valley"	traditional	The Fairfield Four	iv:07
nineteen.	"Affections Band"	traditional	The Stanley Brothers	ii:15
Total length:				60:xviii

tenth Anniversary Palatial Edition bonus disc

No.	Title	Creative person	Length
ane.	"Hard Time Killing Floor Dejection"	Colin Linden	1:fifteen
2.	"You Are My Sunshine"	Alan O'Bryant	3:29
3.	"Tishomingo Dejection"	John Hartford	two:01
4.	"I'll Fly Away"	The Kossoy Sisters with Erik Darling	ii:32
five.	"Big Stone Candy Mountain"	Van Dyke Parks	1:42
half dozen.	"Tom Devil"	Ed Lewis & The Prisoners	five:nineteen
7.	"Continue On The Sunny Side"	The Cox Family	2:36
8.	"Angel Band"	Hannah, Leah, Sarah Peasall and Robert Hamlett	0:58
9.	"Big Rock Processed Mount"	Norman Blake	ii:18
10.	"Fiddling Sadie"	Norman Blake	1:50
11.	"In the Highways"	The Cox Family	2:12
12.	"Hogfoot"	John Hartford	3:47
13.	"The Lord Volition Make A Way"	The Fairfield Four	2:36
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 Precipitous – 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 Block – Banjo Curtis Burch – Dobro T Bone 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 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 K. 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 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 Lesser 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 Republic of austria)[28] 70 Canadian Albums (Billboard)[29] iii French Albums (SNEP)[30] 9 German language Albums (Offizielle Height 100)[31] 87 New Zealand Albums (RMNZ)[32] xiv United states of america Billboard 200[33] 1 US Summit State Albums (Billboard)[34] one The states Soundtrack Albums (Billboard)[35] one

Year-end charts [edit] Year-cease chart performance 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 US Superlative Country Albums (Billboard)[39] 2 US Soundtrack Albums (Billboard)[40] 1 Chart (2002) Position Canadian Albums (Nielsen Soundscan)[41] 19 Canadian Land Albums (Nielsen Soundscan)[42] three United states of america Billboard 200[43] six Us Top Country Albums (Billboard)[44] 1 Us Soundtrack Albums (Billboard)[45] 1 Chart (2003) Position US Soundtrack Albums (Billboard)[46] eleven Chart (2004) Position US Soundtrack Albums (Billboard)[47] 14 Nautical 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)[fifty] 22 Chart (2016) Position U.s.a. Soundtrack Albums (Billboard)[51] 21 Chart (2017) Position US Soundtrack Albums (Billboard)[52] 25

Certifications [edit]

See likewise [edit]

• Downwardly from the Mount

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

External links [edit]

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

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