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2000 soundtrack album past various artists

O Blood brother, Where Art Thou?
Soundtrack anthology 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 Fine art Thou? is the soundtrack album of music from the 2000 American motion picture of the same proper name, written, directed and produced by the Coen Brothers and starring George Clooney, John Turturro, Tim Blake Nelson, and John Goodman.

The motion picture is set in Mississippi during the Great Depression. The soundtrack, produced by T-Bone Burnett, uses bluegrass, land, 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 "Big Stone Candy Mountain"), nigh tracks are mod 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-Os Burnett'southward O Brother sessions."^[1]

Development and audio [edit]

The soundtrack was conceived every bit a major component of the moving-picture show, non merely as a background or support. For this reason it was decided to record the soundtrack before 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 equally "O Death", "Lonesome Valley", "Angel Band", and "I Am Weary", announced in the flick as a contrast to the vivid, 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] [vi]}

"I Am a Human of Constant Sorrow" has five variations: ii are used in the film, one in the music video, and two in the anthology. 2 of the variations feature the verses being sung dorsum-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 (lead vocal on "I Am a Man of Abiding Sorrow"), Nashville songwriter Harley Allen, and the Nashville Bluegrass Ring's Pat Enright.^[8]

Reception and legacy [edit]

Professional ratings

Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	83/100[9]
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[10]
The Austin Chronicle	[xi]
Amusement Weekly	B+[12]
Pitchfork	8.3/10[13]
Q	[fourteen]
Rolling Rock	[15]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide	[xvi]
Uncut	[17]

O Brother, Where Art Thou? won the Grammy Laurels for Album of the Twelvemonth in 2002, the Grammy Award for Best Country Collaboration with Vocals (for vocaliser Dan Tyminski, whose voice overdubbed George Clooney'southward in the moving-picture show on "I Am a Man of Constant Sorrow", Nashville songwriter Harley Allen, and the Nashville Bluegrass Band's Pat Enright), and the Grammy Accolade for Best Male State Vocal Performance for "O, Death" by Ralph Stanley.

The album won the Album of the Twelvemonth Award (only the 2nd soundtrack to ever do then) and Single of the Year Award for "I Am a Man of Abiding Sorrow" at the Land Music Association Awards.^[xviii] It too won the Album of the Year Honour at the 37th University of Country Music Awards and took dwelling house two International Bluegrass Music Awards: Album of the Year and Gospel Recorded Functioning of the Year (for Alison Krauss and Gillian Welch on "I'll Fly Away").^[19]

In 2006, the album ranked No. 38 on CMT'south 40 Greatest Albums in Land Music. In 2009, Rhapsody ranked it No. eight on the "Country's Best Albums of the Decade" list.^[20] Engine 145 Country Music Blog ranked it No. v 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'southward 50 Most 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 tenth anniversary edition was released featuring a bonus disc with 14 new tracks that were non included in the original anthology, all but ii of which were previously unreleased songs from Burnett's original sessions.^{[23] [24]}

Commercial performance [edit]

The anthology 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 showtime certified Gilded by the RIAA on February ix, 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	Author(s)	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.	"Yous Are My Sunshine"	Jimmie Davis, Charles Mitchell	Norman Blake	4:26
iv.	"Downwardly to the River to Pray"	traditional	Alison Krauss	2:55
five.	"I Am a Human of Constant Sorrow" (radio station version)	Dick Burnett	The Soggy Bottom Boys	3:10
6.	"Difficult Time Killing Floor Blues"	Skip James	Chris Thomas Rex	2:42
seven.	"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	3:33
9.	"I'll Wing Away"	Albert E. Brumley	Alison Krauss, Gillian Welch	3:57
10.	"Didn't Leave Nobody simply the Infant"	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 Residuum)"	Pete Roberts (Pete Kuykendall)	The Cox Family	iii:13
xiii.	"I Am a Man of Constant Sorrow" (instrumental)	Ed Haley	John Hartford	2:34
xiv.	"O Expiry"	Lloyd Chandler	Ralph Stanley	iii:19
fifteen.	"In the Jailhouse Now"	Blind Blake, Jimmie Rodgers	The Soggy Bottom Boys	3:34
xvi.	"I Am a Man of Abiding Sorrow" (with band)	Burnett	The Soggy Lesser Boys	four:16
17.	"Indian War Whoop" (instrumental)	Hoyt Ming	John Hartford	ane:xxx
eighteen.	"Lonesome Valley"	traditional	The Fairfield Four	4:07
nineteen.	"Angel Band"	traditional	The Stanley Brothers	two:15
Total length:				60:18

tenth Anniversary Deluxe Edition bonus disc

No.	Title	Creative person	Length
one.	"Hard Time Killing Floor Blues"	Colin Linden	1:15
2.	"You Are My Sunshine"	Alan O'Bryant	3:29
3.	"Tishomingo Blues"	John Hartford	two:01
4.	"I'll Fly Away"	The Kossoy Sisters with Erik Darling	ii:32
5.	"Large Rock Candy Mountain"	Van Dyke Parks	1:42
six.	"Tom Devil"	Ed Lewis & The Prisoners	v:xix
7.	"Continue On The Sunny Side"	The Cox Family unit	two:36
viii.	"Affections Ring"	Hannah, Leah, Sarah Peasall and Robert Hamlett	0:58
9.	"Large Rock Candy Mountain"	Norman Blake	2:18
x.	"Picayune Sadie"	Norman Blake	one:fifty
11.	"In the Highways"	The Cox Family unit	2:12
12.	"Hogfoot"	John Hartford	3:47
13.	"The Lord Will Brand A Fashion"	The Fairfield Four	2:36
14.	"In The Jailhouse Now"	Harley Allen	three:05
Total length:			35:xl

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 Four – Performer Ed Haley – Arranger The Whites: Cadet 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 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 King – Guitar, vocals David Rawlings – Vocals Gavin Lurssen – Mastering Mike Piersante – Mixing Peter Kurland – Location recording Outset Baptist Church of Norfolk Choir – Vocals Chris Abrupt – 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 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] Nautical chart (2000–2002) Peak position Australian Albums (ARIA)[27] fifteen Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria)[28] 70 Canadian Albums (Billboard)[29] 3 French Albums (SNEP)[30] ix German Albums (Offizielle Top 100)[31] 87 New Zealand Albums (RMNZ)[32] 14 US Billboard 200[33] 1 The states Top State Albums (Billboard)[34] 1 US Soundtrack Albums (Billboard)[35] 1

Twelvemonth-end charts [edit] Year-end chart performance for O Brother, Where Art Thousand? Nautical chart (2001) Position Canadian Albums (Nilsen Soundscan) [36] 31 Canadian State Albums (Nielsen Soundscan)[37] 2 United states Billboard 200[38] 23 US Top Country Albums (Billboard)[39] ii US Soundtrack Albums (Billboard)[40] 1 Chart (2002) Position Canadian Albums (Nielsen Soundscan)[41] 19 Canadian Country Albums (Nielsen Soundscan)[42] iii US Billboard 200[43] 6 US Top Country Albums (Billboard)[44] 1 US Soundtrack Albums (Billboard)[45] 1 Nautical chart (2003) Position U.s.a. Soundtrack Albums (Billboard)[46] 11 Nautical chart (2004) Position US Soundtrack Albums (Billboard)[47] xiv Chart (2013) Position U.s. Soundtrack Albums (Billboard)[48] 25 Nautical chart (2014) Position U.s.a. Soundtrack Albums (Billboard)[49] 24 Nautical chart (2015) Position Usa Soundtrack Albums (Billboard)[50] 22 Nautical chart (2016) Position The states Soundtrack Albums (Billboard)[51] 21 Chart (2017) Position US Soundtrack Albums (Billboard)[52] 25

Certifications [edit]

Run across also [edit]

• Downwardly from the Mountain

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External links [edit]

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

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