What Songs Arr on the Movie Soundtrack O Brother Where Art Thou

2000 soundtrack anthology by various artists

O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Soundtrack album past various artists
Released	December 5, 2000 (2000-12-05)
Recorded	(modern tracks) Spring 1999
Studio	Sound 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 Thou? is the soundtrack anthology of music from the 2000 American movie of the same 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 advisable to the time period. With the exception of a few vintage tracks (such as Harry McClintock's 1928 single "Large Rock Processed Mountain"), about tracks are modern recordings.

The soundtrack was reissued on August 23, 2011, with 14 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]

Evolution and sound [edit]

The soundtrack was conceived as a major component of the film, not merely equally a background or support. For this reason it was decided to tape the soundtrack before filming.^[2] T-Bone Burnett and Alan Larman were invited to design collections of music.^[three]

Dirges and other macabre songs recurring in Appalachian music,^[four] such as "O Death", "Lonesome Valley", "Angel Band", and "I Am Weary", appear in the film as a contrast to the brilliant, 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 Decease".^{[5] [6]}

"I Am a Human of Constant Sorrow" has 5 variations: two are used in the film, one in the music video, and two in the album. 2 of the variations characteristic the verses being sung back-to-back, and the other three variations feature additional music betwixt each verse.^[seven] 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	[10]
The Austin Chronicle	[11]
Amusement Weekly	B+[12]
Pitchfork	8.3/ten[thirteen]
Q	[fourteen]
Rolling Rock	[15]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide	[16]
Uncut	[17]

O Brother, Where Fine art Thou? won the Grammy Award for Anthology of the Year in 2002, the Grammy Award for Best Land Collaboration with Vocals (for singer Dan Tyminski, whose voice overdubbed George Clooney's in the pic on "I Am a Human of Abiding Sorrow", Nashville songwriter Harley Allen, and the Nashville Bluegrass Ring's Pat Enright), and the Grammy Accolade for All-time Male Country Vocal Performance for "O, Expiry" by Ralph Stanley.

The anthology won the Album of the Twelvemonth Award (simply the 2nd soundtrack to ever do and then) and Single of the Year Award for "I Am a Man of Constant Sorrow" at the Land Music Clan Awards.^[18] It besides won the Album of the Yr Honor at the 37th Academy of Country Music Awards and took domicile 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").^[nineteen]

In 2006, the album ranked No. 38 on CMT'southward 40 Greatest Albums in Country Music. In 2009, Rhapsody ranked information technology No. eight on the "Country's Best Albums of the Decade" list.^[xx] Engine 145 State Music Blog ranked it No. v on the "Country'southward 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 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 film, Downwardly from the Mountain.

On August 23, 2011, a 10th ceremony edition was released featuring a bonus disc with fourteen new tracks that were not included in the original anthology, all just two 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 Pinnacle Country Albums Chart. The soundtrack CD became a best seller; it was first certified Gold by the RIAA on Feb 9, 2001, and reached 8 times Platinum past Oct x, 2007.^[25] It has sold 8,175,800 copies in the United States as of October 2019.^[26]

Runway list [edit]

No.	Championship	Writer(south)	Artist	Length
1.	"Po' Lazarus"	traditional	James Carter and the Prisoners	4:31
2.	"Big Rock Candy Mountain"	Harry McClintock	Harry McClintock	2:16
3.	"You lot Are My Sunshine"	Jimmie Davis, Charles Mitchell	Norman Blake	4:26
4.	"Downwardly 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:ten
6.	"Difficult Time Killing Floor Dejection"	Skip James	Chris Thomas Rex	2:42
7.	"I Am a Homo of Abiding Sorrow" (instrumental)	Burnett	Norman Blake	4:28
8.	"Proceed On the Sunny Side"	Ada Blenkhorn, J. Howard Entwisle	The Whites	3:33
ix.	"I'll Fly Away"	Albert E. Brumley	Alison Krauss, Gillian Welch	iii: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	1:35
12.	"I Am Weary (Let Me Residue)"	Pete Roberts (Pete Kuykendall)	The Cox Family	3:13
13.	"I Am a Human being of Constant Sorrow" (instrumental)	Ed Haley	John Hartford	2:34
fourteen.	"O Decease"	Lloyd Chandler	Ralph Stanley	3:xix
15.	"In the Jailhouse Now"	Blind Blake, Jimmie Rodgers	The Soggy Lesser Boys	iii:34
16.	"I Am a Human being 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	4:07
nineteen.	"Angel Band"	traditional	The Stanley Brothers	two:xv
Full length:				60:eighteen

tenth Ceremony Deluxe Edition bonus disc

No.	Championship	Artist	Length
1.	"Hard Time 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 Abroad"	The Kossoy Sisters with Erik Darling	2:32
5.	"Large Rock Processed Mount"	Van Dyke Parks	1:42
6.	"Tom Devil"	Ed Lewis & The Prisoners	5:xix
vii.	"Keep On The Sunny Side"	The Cox Family unit	ii:36
8.	"Angel Band"	Hannah, Leah, Sarah Peasall and Robert Hamlett	0:58
nine.	"Big Rock Candy Mountain"	Norman Blake	2:xviii
ten.	"Picayune Sadie"	Norman Blake	1:50
eleven.	"In the Highways"	The Cox Family	2:12
12.	"Hogfoot"	John Hartford	three:47
13.	"The Lord Will Make A Way"	The Fairfield Iv	2:36
fourteen.	"In The Jailhouse At present"	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 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 Rex – Guitar, vocals David Rawlings – Vocals Gavin Lurssen – Mastering Mike Piersante – Mixing Peter Kurland – Location recording Get-go Baptist Church building of Norfolk Choir – Vocals Chris Sharp – Guitar Nathaniel Best – Lead Robert Hamlett – Vocals Joseph Rice – Vocals The Peasall Sisters Sarah Peasall – Alto song, guitar, harmony vocals Hannah Peasall – Soprano vocal, mandolin Leah Peasall – Tenor song, 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] 3 French Albums (SNEP)[30] 9 High german Albums (Offizielle Height 100)[31] 87 New Zealand Albums (RMNZ)[32] 14 US Billboard 200[33] 1 U.s.a. Elevation Land Albums (Billboard)[34] 1 US Soundtrack Albums (Billboard)[35] 1

Twelvemonth-end charts [edit] Year-end chart functioning for O Brother, Where Art G? Chart (2001) Position Canadian Albums (Nilsen Soundscan) [36] 31 Canadian Country Albums (Nielsen Soundscan)[37] 2 US Billboard 200[38] 23 United states Top Country Albums (Billboard)[39] 2 U.s.a. Soundtrack Albums (Billboard)[40] ane Nautical chart (2002) Position Canadian Albums (Nielsen Soundscan)[41] 19 Canadian Country Albums (Nielsen Soundscan)[42] three US Billboard 200[43] six Us Top State Albums (Billboard)[44] 1 US Soundtrack Albums (Billboard)[45] 1 Chart (2003) Position United states of america Soundtrack Albums (Billboard)[46] 11 Chart (2004) Position U.s.a. Soundtrack Albums (Billboard)[47] 14 Chart (2013) Position US Soundtrack Albums (Billboard)[48] 25 Chart (2014) Position United states of america Soundtrack Albums (Billboard)[49] 24 Chart (2015) Position US Soundtrack Albums (Billboard)[50] 22 Nautical chart (2016) Position U.s.a. Soundtrack Albums (Billboard)[51] 21 Chart (2017) Position The states Soundtrack Albums (Billboard)[52] 25

Certifications [edit]

See also [edit]

• Down from the Mountain

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External links [edit]

• Official website
• BBC News: O Brother, why art k and then pop?

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