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2000 soundtrack album by various artists

O Brother, Where Fine art Thou?
Soundtrack album by diverse artists
Released	December v, 2000 (2000-12-05)
Recorded	(modern tracks) Leap 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 Blood brother, Where Art Thou? is the soundtrack album of music from the 2000 American pic of the same name, written, directed and produced past the Coen Brothers and starring George Clooney, John Turturro, Tim Blake Nelson, and John Goodman.

The film is fix in Mississippi during the Keen Depression. The soundtrack, produced by T-Bone Burnett, uses bluegrass, country, gospel, dejection, and Southern folk music appropriate to the time flow. With the exception of a few vintage tracks (such as Harry McClintock'due south 1928 single "Big Rock Candy Mountain"), most 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'due south O Blood brother sessions."^[one]

Evolution and audio [edit]

The soundtrack was conceived as a major component of the film, not simply every bit a background or support. For this reason information technology was decided to record the soundtrack earlier filming.^[2] T-Bone Burnett and Alan Larman were invited to pattern collections of music.^[iii]

Dirges and other macabre songs recurring in Appalachian music,^[4] such as "O Decease", "Lonesome Valley", "Affections Band", and "I Am Weary", appear in the film every bit 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 Death".^{[5] [half dozen]}

"I Am a Human of Constant Sorrow" has five variations: two are used in the motion-picture show, one in the music video, and ii in the anthology. Two of the variations feature the verses being sung back-to-back, and the other iii variations feature additional music betwixt each verse.^[7] The voices of the Soggy Bottom Boys were provided past Dan Tyminski (lead vocal on "I Am a Homo 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[9]
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[x]
The Austin Chronicle	[eleven]
Entertainment Weekly	B+[12]
Pitchfork	viii.3/ten[13]
Q	[fourteen]
Rolling Stone	[xv]
The Rolling Stone Anthology Guide	[16]
Uncut	[17]

O Brother, Where Fine art Thou? won the Grammy Honor for Album of the Yr in 2002, the Grammy Award for Best Country Collaboration with Vocals (for vocaliser Dan Tyminski, whose phonation overdubbed George Clooney'southward in the flick 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 All-time Male State Song Performance for "O, Death" by Ralph Stanley.

The anthology won the Anthology of the Year Accolade (only the second soundtrack to ever do so) and Single of the Year Honor for "I Am a Man of Constant Sorrow" at the Country Music Clan Awards.^[xviii] It also won the Album of the Year Honor at the 37th University of Country Music Awards and took home 2 International Bluegrass Music Awards: Album of the Year and Gospel Recorded Performance of the Twelvemonth (for Alison Krauss and Gillian Welch on "I'll Fly Abroad").^[nineteen]

In 2006, the album ranked No. 38 on CMT's twoscore Greatest Albums in Country Music. In 2009, Rhapsody ranked it No. 8 on the "Country'southward Best Albums of the Decade" list.^[20] Engine 145 State Music Blog ranked it No. 5 on the "Country's Best Albums of the Decade" listing.^[21] In 2010, All Songs Considered, a programme on NPR, included the soundtrack album on their list of "The Decade's fifty Nearly Important 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, Down from the Mountain.

On Baronial 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 only ii of which were previously unreleased songs from Burnett's 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 Gold past the RIAA on Feb 9, 2001, and reached 8 times Platinum by Oct 10, 2007.^[25] It has sold 8,175,800 copies in the United States as of October 2019.^[26]

Track list [edit]

No.	Title	Writer(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	2:55
five.	"I Am a Man of Constant Sorrow" (radio station version)	Dick Burnett	The Soggy Bottom Boys	3:x
6.	"Hard Fourth dimension Killing Floor Blues"	Skip James	Chris Thomas King	two:42
7.	"I Am a Man of Constant Sorrow" (instrumental)	Burnett	Norman Blake	4:28
8.	"Keep On the Sunny Side"	Ada Blenkhorn, J. Howard Entwisle	The Whites	3:33
9.	"I'll Wing Abroad"	Albert Due east. Brumley	Alison Krauss, Gillian Welch	three:57
10.	"Didn't Go out Nobody but the Infant"	traditional	Emmylou Harris, Alison Krauss, Gillian Welch	1:57
11.	"In the Highways"	Maybelle Carter	The Peasall Sisters	one:35
12.	"I Am Weary (Permit Me Rest)"	Pete Roberts (Pete Kuykendall)	The Cox Family	3:xiii
13.	"I Am a Man of Constant Sorrow" (instrumental)	Ed Haley	John Hartford	two:34
fourteen.	"O Death"	Lloyd Chandler	Ralph Stanley	three:nineteen
fifteen.	"In the Jailhouse Now"	Blind Blake, Jimmie Rodgers	The Soggy Bottom Boys	iii:34
sixteen.	"I Am a Man of Abiding Sorrow" (with band)	Burnett	The Soggy Bottom Boys	4:xvi
17.	"Indian War Whoop" (instrumental)	Hoyt Ming	John Hartford	ane:thirty
18.	"Lonesome Valley"	traditional	The Fairfield Four	four:07
19.	"Angel Band"	traditional	The Stanley Brothers	2:xv
Total length:				60:18

10th Ceremony Deluxe Edition bonus disc

No.	Championship	Artist	Length
1.	"Hard Time Killing Floor Blues"	Colin Linden	1:15
2.	"Y'all Are My Sunshine"	Alan O'Bryant	iii:29
3.	"Tishomingo Blues"	John Hartford	2:01
iv.	"I'll Fly Away"	The Kossoy Sisters with Erik Darling	ii:32
5.	"Large Rock Processed Mountain"	Van Dyke Parks	1:42
6.	"Tom Devil"	Ed Lewis & The Prisoners	5:19
7.	"Keep On The Sunny Side"	The Cox Family	2:36
eight.	"Angel Band"	Hannah, Leah, Sarah Peasall and Robert Hamlett	0:58
9.	"Large Rock Processed Mountain"	Norman Blake	two:eighteen
10.	"Little Sadie"	Norman Blake	i:50
11.	"In the Highways"	The Cox Family	ii:12
12.	"Hogfoot"	John Hartford	3:47
xiii.	"The Lord Will Make A Mode"	The Fairfield Four	2:36
14.	"In The Jailhouse Now"	Harley Allen	three: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 – Mandolin Emmylou Harris – Performer John Hartford – Fiddle, vocals The Fairfield 4 – 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, 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 1000. 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 Showtime 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] 15 Austrian Albums (Ö3 Republic of austria)[28] 70 Canadian Albums (Billboard)[29] 3 French Albums (SNEP)[xxx] 9 German Albums (Offizielle Superlative 100)[31] 87 New Zealand Albums (RMNZ)[32] 14 US Billboard 200[33] 1 United states Top Country Albums (Billboard)[34] 1 US Soundtrack Albums (Billboard)[35] 1

Yr-end charts [edit] Year-cease nautical chart performance for O Brother, Where Art Grand? Nautical chart (2001) Position Canadian Albums (Nilsen Soundscan) [36] 31 Canadian Land Albums (Nielsen Soundscan)[37] 2 US Billboard 200[38] 23 U.s.a. Top 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] iii U.s.a. Billboard 200[43] 6 US Top Country Albums (Billboard)[44] 1 US Soundtrack Albums (Billboard)[45] 1 Nautical chart (2003) Position US Soundtrack Albums (Billboard)[46] eleven Chart (2004) Position US Soundtrack Albums (Billboard)[47] 14 Nautical chart (2013) Position United states Soundtrack Albums (Billboard)[48] 25 Chart (2014) Position US Soundtrack Albums (Billboard)[49] 24 Chart (2015) Position US Soundtrack Albums (Billboard)[fifty] 22 Chart (2016) Position Us Soundtrack Albums (Billboard)[51] 21 Chart (2017) Position Us Soundtrack Albums (Billboard)[52] 25

Certifications [edit]

See too [edit]

• Down from the Mount

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External links [edit]

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

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