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2000 soundtrack album by various artists

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Soundtrack album by various artists
Released	December 5, 2000 (2000-12-05)
Recorded	(modernistic tracks) Leap 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 K? is the soundtrack album of music from the 2000 American flick of the same proper noun, written, directed and produced past 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-Bone Burnett, uses bluegrass, country, gospel, blues, and Southern folk music advisable to the time period. With the exception of a few vintage tracks (such every bit Harry McClintock'due south 1928 single "Big Rock Processed Mountain"), most tracks are mod recordings.

The soundtrack was reissued on August 23, 2011, with 14 new tracks that were not included in the original anthology, "including 12 previously unreleased cuts from music producer T-Bone Burnett's O Blood brother sessions."^[one]

Development and sound [edit]

The soundtrack was conceived as a major component of the picture show, not merely every bit a background or support. For this reason it was decided to tape the soundtrack before filming.^[ii] 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 every bit "O Death", "Lonesome Valley", "Angel Band", and "I Am Weary", announced in the moving-picture show as a dissimilarity 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 Death".^{[five] [6]}

"I Am a Man of Constant Sorrow" has five variations: two are used in the film, ane 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 feature boosted music between each poetry.^[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 Band's Pat Enright.^[8]

Reception and legacy [edit]

Professional person ratings

Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	83/100[9]
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[ten]
The Austin Chronicle	[11]
Entertainment Weekly	B+[12]
Pitchfork	eight.3/10[13]
Q	[14]
Rolling Stone	[xv]
The Rolling Stone Anthology Guide	[16]
Uncut	[17]

O Brother, Where Art 1000? won the Grammy Award for Album of the Year in 2002, the Grammy Award for Best State Collaboration with Vocals (for singer Dan Tyminski, whose vocalization overdubbed George Clooney's in the film on "I Am a Man of Constant Sorrow", Nashville songwriter Harley Allen, and the Nashville Bluegrass Ring's Pat Enright), and the Grammy Award for Best Male State Vocal Performance for "O, Expiry" by Ralph Stanley.

The album won the Album of the Twelvemonth Honor (only the second soundtrack to ever exercise so) and Single of the Twelvemonth Award for "I Am a Human of Constant Sorrow" at the Country Music Association Awards.^[eighteen] It besides won the Album of the Year Award at the 37th Academy of Country Music Awards and took home 2 International Bluegrass Music Awards: Album 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 album ranked No. 38 on CMT'due south 40 Greatest Albums in Country Music. In 2009, Rhapsody ranked it No. viii on the "Country's Best Albums of the Decade" list.^[twenty] Engine 145 State Music Blog ranked information technology No. 5 on the "Country's Best Albums of the Decade" list.^[21] In 2010, All Songs Considered, a program on NPR, included the soundtrack album on their listing of "The Decade's fifty 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, Downward from the Mountain.

On August 23, 2011, a tenth anniversary edition was released featuring a bonus disc with xiv new tracks that were non included in the original anthology, all but two of which were previously unreleased songs from Burnett's original sessions.^{[23] [24]}

Commercial performance [edit]

The album charted at No. i on Billboard 200 In 2001, and spent over xx weeks on the Billboard Elevation Country Albums Chart. The soundtrack CD became a all-time seller; information technology was first certified Gilt past the RIAA on February ix, 2001, and reached eight times Platinum by October x, 2007.^[25] It has sold 8,175,800 copies in the United States as of Oct 2019.^[26]

Runway listing [edit]

No.	Title	Author(s)	Artist	Length
1.	"Po' Lazarus"	traditional	James Carter and the Prisoners	four:31
2.	"Large Rock Candy Mountain"	Harry McClintock	Harry McClintock	2:16
3.	"You lot Are My Sunshine"	Jimmie Davis, Charles Mitchell	Norman Blake	iv:26
four.	"Downward 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	iii:10
6.	"Hard Time Killing Floor Dejection"	Skip James	Chris Thomas King	2:42
vii.	"I Am a Man of Constant Sorrow" (instrumental)	Burnett	Norman Blake	4:28
viii.	"Keep On the Sunny Side"	Ada Blenkhorn, J. Howard Entwisle	The Whites	3:33
9.	"I'll Fly Away"	Albert E. Brumley	Alison Krauss, Gillian Welch	iii:57
ten.	"Didn't Leave Nobody but the Baby"	traditional	Emmylou Harris, Alison Krauss, Gillian Welch	one:57
11.	"In the Highways"	Maybelle Carter	The Peasall Sisters	1:35
12.	"I Am Weary (Allow Me Rest)"	Pete Roberts (Pete Kuykendall)	The Cox Family	3:13
13.	"I Am a Man 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	3:34
sixteen.	"I Am a Man of Constant Sorrow" (with ring)	Burnett	The Soggy Lesser Boys	4:xvi
17.	"Indian War Whoop" (instrumental)	Hoyt Ming	John Hartford	1:thirty
18.	"Lonesome Valley"	traditional	The Fairfield 4	4:07
19.	"Angel Band"	traditional	The Stanley Brothers	2:15
Total length:				60:18

10th Anniversary Deluxe Edition bonus disc

No.	Title	Creative person	Length
1.	"Hard Time Killing Floor Blues"	Colin Linden	i:fifteen
2.	"Yous Are My Sunshine"	Alan O'Bryant	iii:29
3.	"Tishomingo Dejection"	John Hartford	2:01
4.	"I'll Fly Away"	The Kossoy Sisters with Erik Darling	ii:32
5.	"Big Rock Candy Mountain"	Van Dyke Parks	1:42
6.	"Tom Devil"	Ed Lewis & The Prisoners	five:19
7.	"Continue On The Sunny Side"	The Cox Family	ii:36
viii.	"Angel Band"	Hannah, Leah, Sarah Peasall and Robert Hamlett	0:58
9.	"Large Rock Candy Mountain"	Norman Blake	ii:xviii
10.	"Petty Sadie"	Norman Blake	one:50
11.	"In the Highways"	The Cox Family	2:12
12.	"Hogfoot"	John Hartford	three:47
13.	"The Lord Will Make A Mode"	The Fairfield Four	2:36
xiv.	"In The Jailhouse At present"	Harley Allen	three:05
Total length:			35:40

Personnel [edit]

Norman Blake – Performer, guitar, vocals Jerry Douglas – Dobro Alison Krauss – Vocals, harmony vocals Chris Precipitous – Rhythm guitar The Stanley Brothers – Performers Ralph Stanley – Performer Sam Bush – Mandolin Emmylou Harris – Performer John Hartford – Fiddle, vocals The Fairfield Iv – 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 Os 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, pb

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 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 – Pb Robert Hamlett – Vocals Joseph Rice – Vocals The Peasall Sisters Sarah Peasall – Alto song, 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) Summit position Australian Albums (ARIA)[27] fifteen Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria)[28] 70 Canadian Albums (Billboard)[29] three French Albums (SNEP)[30] ix German Albums (Offizielle Top 100)[31] 87 New Zealand Albums (RMNZ)[32] fourteen US Billboard 200[33] i United states of america Top Country Albums (Billboard)[34] 1 U.s.a. Soundtrack Albums (Billboard)[35] 1

Yr-end charts [edit] Year-end chart performance for O Brother, Where Art Thou? Chart (2001) Position Canadian Albums (Nilsen Soundscan) [36] 31 Canadian Country Albums (Nielsen Soundscan)[37] two US Billboard 200[38] 23 US Top State Albums (Billboard)[39] 2 US Soundtrack Albums (Billboard)[twoscore] one Chart (2002) Position Canadian Albums (Nielsen Soundscan)[41] 19 Canadian Country Albums (Nielsen Soundscan)[42] 3 Usa Billboard 200[43] vi Us Elevation State Albums (Billboard)[44] 1 The states Soundtrack Albums (Billboard)[45] 1 Chart (2003) Position US Soundtrack Albums (Billboard)[46] 11 Chart (2004) Position U.s. Soundtrack Albums (Billboard)[47] 14 Chart (2013) Position US Soundtrack Albums (Billboard)[48] 25 Chart (2014) Position US Soundtrack Albums (Billboard)[49] 24 Chart (2015) Position US Soundtrack Albums (Billboard)[50] 22 Chart (2016) Position US 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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55. ^ "British anthology certifications – Soundtrack – O Brother, Where Fine art Thou?". British Phonographic Industry. Retrieved 9 July 2019. Select albums in the Format field.Select Platinum in the Certification field.Type O Brother, Where Art Thou? in the "Search BPI Awards" field and and so press Enter.

External links [edit]

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

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