O Brother Where Art Thou Chicago Citation of Film

2000 soundtrack anthology by diverse artists

O Brother, Where Fine art Thou?
Soundtrack album by diverse artists
Released	December v, 2000 (2000-12-05)
Recorded	(modern tracks) Spring 1999
Studio	Sound Emporium, Nashville
Genre	Country folk bluegrass dejection gospel Americana soundtrack
Length	61:24
Characterization	Lost Highway/Mercury
Producer	T Bone Burnett

O Blood brother, Where Art G? is the soundtrack album 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 set in Mississippi during the Great Depression. The soundtrack, produced by T-Os Burnett, uses bluegrass, country, gospel, blues, and Southern folk music appropriate to the fourth dimension period. With the exception of a few vintage tracks (such as Harry McClintock's 1928 unmarried "Large Rock Candy Mountain"), well-nigh tracks are mod recordings.

The soundtrack was reissued on Baronial 23, 2011, with fourteen new tracks that were not included in the original album, "including 12 previously unreleased cuts from music producer T-Bone Burnett'due south O Brother sessions."^[1]

Development 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 it was decided to tape the soundtrack earlier filming.^[two] T-Bone 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 Expiry", "Lonesome Valley", "Affections Band", and "I Am Weary", appear in the film every bit a dissimilarity 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 vocal "O Death".^{[5] [6]}

"I Am a Homo of Abiding Sorrow" has five variations: ii are used in the film, one in the music video, and two in the anthology. 2 of the variations characteristic the verses beingness sung back-to-back, and the other iii variations feature additional music between each verse.^[7] The voices of the Soggy Bottom Boys were provided by Dan Tyminski (pb 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 person ratings

Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	83/100[9]
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[10]
The Austin Chronicle	[11]
Entertainment Weekly	B+[12]
Pitchfork	8.3/10[13]
Q	[14]
Rolling Stone	[15]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide	[16]
Uncut	[17]

O Blood brother, Where Fine art Thousand? won the Grammy Accolade for Anthology of the Year in 2002, the Grammy Accolade for Best Country Collaboration with Vocals (for singer Dan Tyminski, whose voice overdubbed George Clooney's in the movie on "I Am a Human of Constant Sorrow", Nashville songwriter Harley Allen, and the Nashville Bluegrass Band's Pat Enright), and the Grammy Award for Best Male person Land Vocal Functioning for "O, Death" by Ralph Stanley.

The album won the Anthology of the Year Honor (only the 2nd soundtrack to ever do so) and Single of the Year Award for "I Am a Man of Constant Sorrow" at the Country Music Clan Awards.^[18] Information technology also won the Anthology of the Yr Honour at the 37th Academy of Country Music Awards and took dwelling 2 International Bluegrass Music Awards: Anthology 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'south xl Greatest Albums in Country Music. In 2009, Rhapsody ranked it No. 8 on the "Country's Best Albums of the Decade" list.^[xx] Engine 145 Country Music Web log ranked information technology No. 5 on the "Country'due south Best Albums of the Decade" listing.^[21] In 2010, All Songs Considered, a program on NPR, included the soundtrack anthology on their list of "The Decade's 50 About 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 pic, Down from the Mountain.

On August 23, 2011, a 10th anniversary edition was released featuring a bonus disc with 14 new tracks that were non included in the original album, all but ii 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 20 weeks on the Billboard Peak Country Albums Chart. The soundtrack CD became a best seller; information technology was first certified Gold by the RIAA on February ix, 2001, and reached 8 times Platinum past October ten, 2007.^[25] Information technology has sold 8,175,800 copies in the Us as of Oct 2019.^[26]

Rails listing [edit]

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Artist	Length
1.	"Po' Lazarus"	traditional	James Carter and the Prisoners	4:31
two.	"Big Rock Candy Mount"	Harry McClintock	Harry McClintock	ii:sixteen
iii.	"Y'all Are My Sunshine"	Jimmie Davis, Charles Mitchell	Norman Blake	four:26
4.	"Down to the River to Pray"	traditional	Alison Krauss	2:55
v.	"I Am a Human being of Constant Sorrow" (radio station version)	Dick Burnett	The Soggy Lesser Boys	iii:10
half-dozen.	"Hard Time Killing Floor Blues"	Skip James	Chris Thomas King	2:42
7.	"I Am a Homo of Constant Sorrow" (instrumental)	Burnett	Norman Blake	4:28
8.	"Keep On the Sunny Side"	Ada Blenkhorn, J. Howard Entwisle	The Whites	three:33
9.	"I'll Fly Abroad"	Albert Due east. Brumley	Alison Krauss, Gillian Welch	three: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	ane:35
12.	"I Am Weary (Let Me Rest)"	Pete Roberts (Pete Kuykendall)	The Cox Family	3:13
13.	"I Am a Human of Constant Sorrow" (instrumental)	Ed Haley	John Hartford	ii:34
14.	"O Death"	Lloyd Chandler	Ralph Stanley	iii:19
xv.	"In the Jailhouse At present"	Bullheaded Blake, Jimmie Rodgers	The Soggy Lesser Boys	3:34
16.	"I Am a Human being of Constant Sorrow" (with band)	Burnett	The Soggy Bottom Boys	iv:16
17.	"Indian War Whoop" (instrumental)	Hoyt Ming	John Hartford	i:30
18.	"Lonesome Valley"	traditional	The Fairfield Four	4:07
19.	"Angel Band"	traditional	The Stanley Brothers	two:15
Full length:				60:18

10th Anniversary Deluxe Edition bonus disc

No.	Championship	Artist	Length
1.	"Hard Fourth dimension Killing Floor Dejection"	Colin Linden	1:15
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	2:32
5.	"Big Rock Candy Mountain"	Van Dyke Parks	1:42
half-dozen.	"Tom Devil"	Ed Lewis & The Prisoners	v:19
seven.	"Keep On The Sunny Side"	The Cox Family	two:36
8.	"Angel Band"	Hannah, Leah, Sarah Peasall and Robert Hamlett	0:58
9.	"Big Stone Processed Mount"	Norman Blake	2:eighteen
ten.	"Footling Sadie"	Norman Blake	1:50
11.	"In the Highways"	The Cox Family	ii:12
12.	"Hogfoot"	John Hartford	3:47
13.	"The Lord Will Brand A Fashion"	The Fairfield Four	2:36
xiv.	"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 Block – 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, 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 Chiliad. 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 Best – Lead 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 fill-in vocals James Carter and The Prisoners – Performers Alan Larman – Musicologist

Nautical chart operation [edit]

Weekly charts [edit] Chart (2000–2002) Top position Australian Albums (ARIA)[27] 15 Austrian Albums (Ö3 Republic of austria)[28] seventy Canadian Albums (Billboard)[29] 3 French Albums (SNEP)[30] 9 German Albums (Offizielle Top 100)[31] 87 New Zealand Albums (RMNZ)[32] fourteen US Billboard 200[33] 1 U.s. Meridian Country Albums (Billboard)[34] one U.s. Soundtrack Albums (Billboard)[35] 1

Twelvemonth-finish charts [edit] Year-stop chart operation 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 Top State Albums (Billboard)[39] ii U.s.a. Soundtrack Albums (Billboard)[twoscore] 1 Nautical chart (2002) Position Canadian Albums (Nielsen Soundscan)[41] nineteen Canadian State Albums (Nielsen Soundscan)[42] 3 US Billboard 200[43] six US Top Country Albums (Billboard)[44] one US Soundtrack Albums (Billboard)[45] 1 Chart (2003) Position U.s.a. Soundtrack Albums (Billboard)[46] eleven Nautical chart (2004) Position United states Soundtrack Albums (Billboard)[47] 14 Chart (2013) Position United states of america Soundtrack Albums (Billboard)[48] 25 Nautical chart (2014) Position US Soundtrack Albums (Billboard)[49] 24 Chart (2015) Position Us Soundtrack Albums (Billboard)[l] 22 Nautical chart (2016) Position US Soundtrack Albums (Billboard)[51] 21 Nautical chart (2017) Position U.s.a. Soundtrack Albums (Billboard)[52] 25

Certifications [edit]

See also [edit]

• Down from the Mount

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External links [edit]

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

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