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2000 soundtrack album by various artists

O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Soundtrack album by diverse artists
Released	Dec 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 album of music from the 2000 American pic 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 Groovy Depression. The soundtrack, produced by T-Bone Burnett, uses bluegrass, country, gospel, dejection, and Southern folk music appropriate to the time period. With the exception of a few vintage tracks (such every bit Harry McClintock's 1928 single "Big Stone Candy Mountain"), most tracks are modern recordings.

The soundtrack was reissued on Baronial 23, 2011, with xiv new tracks that were not included in the original anthology, "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 film, not merely as a background or back up. For this reason information technology was decided to record the soundtrack before filming.^[two] T-Os Burnett and Alan Larman were invited to design collections of music.^[iii]

Dirges and other macabre songs recurring in Appalachian music,^[4] such equally "O Death", "Lonesome Valley", "Angel Ring", and "I Am Weary", appear in the pic as a contrast to the bright, cheerful songs similar "Go on On the Sunnyside" and "In the Highways". Ralph Stanley of The Stanley Brothers personally recorded the a cappella folk song "O Death".^{[5] [vi]}

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

Reception and legacy [edit]

Professional ratings

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

O Blood brother, Where Art Grand? won the Grammy Award 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'due south in the film on "I Am a Human of Constant Sorrow", Nashville songwriter Harley Allen, and the Nashville Bluegrass Ring's Pat Enright), and the Grammy Award for Best Male Land Vocal Performance for "O, Death" by Ralph Stanley.

The album won the Album of the Year Laurels (merely the second soundtrack to always practice so) and Single of the Year Award for "I Am a Human of Constant Sorrow" at the Country Music Association Awards.^[eighteen] Information technology besides won the Album of the Twelvemonth Award at the 37th Academy of State Music Awards and took home 2 International Bluegrass Music Awards: Album of the Twelvemonth and Gospel Recorded Performance of the Twelvemonth (for Alison Krauss and Gillian Welch on "I'll Fly Away").^[xix]

In 2006, the anthology ranked No. 38 on CMT'south twoscore Greatest Albums in Country Music. In 2009, Rhapsody ranked it No. 8 on the "State'south Best Albums of the Decade" listing.^[20] Engine 145 Country Music Blog ranked it No. five on the "Country's Best 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 Nearly 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, Downward from the Mount.

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 but 2 of which were previously unreleased songs from Burnett'southward original sessions.^{[23] [24]}

Commercial operation [edit]

The anthology charted at No. ane on Billboard 200 In 2001, and spent over twenty weeks on the Billboard Top Country Albums Nautical chart. The soundtrack CD became a all-time seller; it was first certified Gold by the RIAA on Feb 9, 2001, and reached eight times Platinum by Oct 10, 2007.^[25] It has sold 8,175,800 copies in the United States as of October 2019.^[26]

Runway listing [edit]

No.	Championship	Writer(s)	Creative person	Length
i.	"Po' Lazarus"	traditional	James Carter and the Prisoners	4:31
two.	"Big Rock Candy Mountain"	Harry McClintock	Harry McClintock	2:16
3.	"You Are My Sunshine"	Jimmie Davis, Charles Mitchell	Norman Blake	iv:26
four.	"Down to the River to Pray"	traditional	Alison Krauss	2:55
5.	"I Am a Man of Abiding Sorrow" (radio station version)	Dick Burnett	The Soggy Bottom Boys	3:x
half-dozen.	"Hard Time Killing Flooring Blues"	Skip James	Chris Thomas Rex	ii:42
7.	"I Am a Man of Abiding Sorrow" (instrumental)	Burnett	Norman Blake	4:28
8.	"Go along On the Sunny Side"	Ada Blenkhorn, J. Howard Entwisle	The Whites	iii:33
9.	"I'll Fly Away"	Albert East. Brumley	Alison Krauss, Gillian Welch	3:57
10.	"Didn't Get out Nobody but the Baby"	traditional	Emmylou Harris, Alison Krauss, Gillian Welch	i:57
xi.	"In the Highways"	Maybelle Carter	The Peasall Sisters	1:35
12.	"I Am Weary (Allow Me Residue)"	Pete Roberts (Pete Kuykendall)	The Cox Family unit	three:13
13.	"I Am a Homo of Abiding Sorrow" (instrumental)	Ed Haley	John Hartford	2:34
14.	"O Death"	Lloyd Chandler	Ralph Stanley	3:19
15.	"In the Jailhouse Now"	Blind Blake, Jimmie Rodgers	The Soggy Bottom Boys	iii:34
16.	"I Am a Human being of Constant Sorrow" (with ring)	Burnett	The Soggy Bottom Boys	iv:16
17.	"Indian War Whoop" (instrumental)	Hoyt Ming	John Hartford	1:30
18.	"Lonesome Valley"	traditional	The Fairfield Four	4:07
xix.	"Affections Ring"	traditional	The Stanley Brothers	2:15
Full length:				60:18

10th Anniversary Deluxe Edition bonus disc

No.	Title	Creative person	Length
1.	"Hard Time Killing Floor Blues"	Colin Linden	1:fifteen
2.	"You lot Are My Sunshine"	Alan O'Bryant	3:29
3.	"Tishomingo Blues"	John Hartford	2:01
iv.	"I'll Wing 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	five:19
7.	"Go on On The Sunny Side"	The Cox Family	2:36
8.	"Angel Band"	Hannah, Leah, Sarah Peasall and Robert Hamlett	0:58
9.	"Big Rock Candy Mountain"	Norman Blake	2:xviii
10.	"Little Sadie"	Norman Blake	ane:50
eleven.	"In the Highways"	The Cox Family	two:12
12.	"Hogfoot"	John Hartford	3:47
13.	"The Lord Will Make A Way"	The Fairfield Four	2:36
14.	"In The Jailhouse Now"	Harley Allen	3:05
Full length:			35:xl

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-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 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 Sharp – Guitar Nathaniel Best – Atomic number 82 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 backup vocals James Carter and The Prisoners – Performers Alan Larman – Musicologist

Chart performance [edit]

Weekly charts [edit] Chart (2000–2002) Superlative position Australian Albums (ARIA)[27] 15 Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria)[28] 70 Canadian Albums (Billboard)[29] 3 French Albums (SNEP)[30] nine High german Albums (Offizielle Meridian 100)[31] 87 New Zealand Albums (RMNZ)[32] 14 US Billboard 200[33] one US Meridian Country Albums (Billboard)[34] 1 US Soundtrack Albums (Billboard)[35] 1

Year-end charts [edit] Year-end nautical chart performance for O Blood brother, Where Art Chiliad? Chart (2001) Position Canadian Albums (Nilsen Soundscan) [36] 31 Canadian Country Albums (Nielsen Soundscan)[37] 2 United states of america Billboard 200[38] 23 US Acme State Albums (Billboard)[39] two US Soundtrack Albums (Billboard)[40] 1 Nautical chart (2002) Position Canadian Albums (Nielsen Soundscan)[41] nineteen Canadian Country Albums (Nielsen Soundscan)[42] 3 US Billboard 200[43] 6 US Elevation State Albums (Billboard)[44] 1 US Soundtrack Albums (Billboard)[45] ane Chart (2003) Position US Soundtrack Albums (Billboard)[46] 11 Chart (2004) Position US Soundtrack Albums (Billboard)[47] xiv Chart (2013) Position U.s.a. Soundtrack Albums (Billboard)[48] 25 Chart (2014) Position US Soundtrack Albums (Billboard)[49] 24 Chart (2015) Position US Soundtrack Albums (Billboard)[l] 22 Chart (2016) Position US Soundtrack Albums (Billboard)[51] 21 Chart (2017) Position U.s. Soundtrack Albums (Billboard)[52] 25

Certifications [edit]

See besides [edit]

• Down from the Mountain

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External links [edit]

• Official website
• BBC News: O Blood brother, why art thou so pop?

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