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2000 soundtrack album by various artists

O Blood brother, Where Fine art Thou?
Soundtrack album by various artists
Released	December 5, 2000 (2000-12-05)
Recorded	(modern tracks) Leap 1999
Studio	Audio 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 Yard? is the soundtrack album of music from the 2000 American film 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 fix in Mississippi during the Dandy Depression. The soundtrack, produced by T-Os Burnett, uses bluegrass, land, gospel, dejection, and Southern folk music appropriate to the time flow. With the exception of a few vintage tracks (such every bit Harry McClintock'due south 1928 single "Large Rock Candy Mountain"), nigh 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-Os Burnett's O Brother sessions."^[i]

Development and sound [edit]

The soundtrack was conceived every bit a major component of the film, not just every bit a background or support. For this reason it was decided to tape the soundtrack before filming.^[two] T-Bone Burnett and Alan Larman were invited to blueprint collections of music.^[3]

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

"I Am a Man of Constant Sorrow" has five variations: ii are used in the flick, one in the music video, and two in the album. Ii of the variations feature the verses being sung back-to-dorsum, and the other three variations feature additional music between each verse.^[7] The voices of the Soggy Bottom Boys were provided by Dan Tyminski (pb vocal on "I Am a Human of Constant Sorrow"), Nashville songwriter Harley Allen, and the Nashville Bluegrass Band'due south 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	[eleven]
Entertainment Weekly	B+[12]
Pitchfork	eight.3/ten[13]
Q	[14]
Rolling Stone	[xv]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide	[16]
Uncut	[17]

O Brother, Where Art Thou? won the Grammy Award for Album of the Yr in 2002, the Grammy Award for All-time Country Collaboration with Vocals (for vocalizer Dan Tyminski, whose vocalization overdubbed George Clooney's in the film on "I Am a Human of Constant Sorrow", Nashville songwriter Harley Allen, and the Nashville Bluegrass Band's Pat Enright), and the Grammy Accolade for Best Male Country Vocal Functioning for "O, Death" past Ralph Stanley.

The album won the Album of the Yr Award (simply the second soundtrack to ever exercise and then) and Single of the Yr Award for "I Am a Man of Abiding Sorrow" at the Country Music Association Awards.^[18] It likewise won the Anthology of the Year Award at the 37th University of Country Music Awards and took domicile 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 anthology ranked No. 38 on CMT'southward 40 Greatest Albums in Country Music. In 2009, Rhapsody ranked information technology No. 8 on the "State's Best Albums of the Decade" listing.^[20] Engine 145 Country Music Blog ranked it No. v on the "Country'south All-time Albums of the Decade" list.^[21] In 2010, All Songs Considered, a programme on NPR, included the soundtrack anthology on their listing of "The Decade's 50 Virtually 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 picture show, Down from the Mountain.

On August 23, 2011, a tenth ceremony edition was released featuring a bonus disc with 14 new tracks that were not included in the original anthology, all simply two of which were previously unreleased songs from Burnett'due south original sessions.^{[23] [24]}

Commercial operation [edit]

The anthology charted at No. 1 on Billboard 200 In 2001, and spent over 20 weeks on the Billboard Top Country Albums Nautical chart. The soundtrack CD became a best seller; it was first certified Gold by the RIAA on February 9, 2001, and reached 8 times Platinum by October 10, 2007.^[25] It has sold 8,175,800 copies in the Usa every bit of October 2019.^[26]

Track listing [edit]

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Artist	Length
i.	"Po' Lazarus"	traditional	James Carter and the Prisoners	4:31
ii.	"Big Stone Candy Mountain"	Harry McClintock	Harry McClintock	2:16
3.	"You Are My Sunshine"	Jimmie Davis, Charles Mitchell	Norman Blake	4:26
iv.	"Downwardly to the River to Pray"	traditional	Alison Krauss	2:55
5.	"I Am a Man of Constant Sorrow" (radio station version)	Dick Burnett	The Soggy Bottom Boys	3:10
half-dozen.	"Hard Time Killing Floor Dejection"	Skip James	Chris Thomas Rex	two:42
7.	"I Am a Man of Constant Sorrow" (instrumental)	Burnett	Norman Blake	4:28
8.	"Continue On the Sunny Side"	Ada Blenkhorn, J. Howard Entwisle	The Whites	3:33
nine.	"I'll Fly Away"	Albert E. Brumley	Alison Krauss, Gillian Welch	3:57
10.	"Didn't Leave Nobody but the Infant"	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:thirteen
13.	"I Am a Human of Constant Sorrow" (instrumental)	Ed Haley	John Hartford	two:34
14.	"O Expiry"	Lloyd Chandler	Ralph Stanley	3:xix
xv.	"In the Jailhouse Now"	Blind Blake, Jimmie Rodgers	The Soggy Bottom Boys	3:34
sixteen.	"I Am a Man of Constant Sorrow" (with band)	Burnett	The Soggy Bottom Boys	4:sixteen
17.	"Indian War Whoop" (instrumental)	Hoyt Ming	John Hartford	1:30
xviii.	"Lonesome Valley"	traditional	The Fairfield Four	iv:07
19.	"Affections Band"	traditional	The Stanley Brothers	2:15
Total length:				60:18

10th Anniversary Palatial Edition bonus disc

No.	Title	Artist	Length
1.	"Hard Time Killing Floor Blues"	Colin Linden	ane:15
ii.	"You lot 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.	"Big Rock Candy Mountain"	Van Dyke Parks	1:42
6.	"Tom Devil"	Ed Lewis & The Prisoners	five:19
7.	"Keep On The Sunny Side"	The Cox Family unit	2:36
8.	"Angel Band"	Hannah, Leah, Sarah Peasall and Robert Hamlett	0:58
9.	"Large Rock Candy Mount"	Norman Blake	2:18
10.	"Little Sadie"	Norman Blake	1:50
xi.	"In the Highways"	The Cox Family	2:12
12.	"Hogfoot"	John Hartford	3:47
13.	"The Lord Will Brand A Way"	The Fairfield Four	2:36
14.	"In The Jailhouse Now"	Harley Allen	3:05
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 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 – Atomic number 82 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 fill-in vocals James Carter and The Prisoners – Performers Alan Larman – Musicologist

Chart operation [edit]

Weekly charts [edit] Nautical chart (2000–2002) Peak position Australian Albums (ARIA)[27] fifteen Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria)[28] lxx Canadian Albums (Billboard)[29] 3 French Albums (SNEP)[thirty] 9 German language Albums (Offizielle Top 100)[31] 87 New Zealand Albums (RMNZ)[32] 14 Usa Billboard 200[33] ane US Top Country Albums (Billboard)[34] ane U.s. Soundtrack Albums (Billboard)[35] i

Year-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] 2 The states Billboard 200[38] 23 Us Top Country Albums (Billboard)[39] two The states Soundtrack Albums (Billboard)[40] 1 Nautical chart (2002) Position Canadian Albums (Nielsen Soundscan)[41] 19 Canadian Country Albums (Nielsen Soundscan)[42] 3 US Billboard 200[43] 6 US Summit Country Albums (Billboard)[44] one US Soundtrack Albums (Billboard)[45] 1 Chart (2003) Position US Soundtrack Albums (Billboard)[46] 11 Chart (2004) Position US Soundtrack Albums (Billboard)[47] 14 Chart (2013) Position Usa Soundtrack Albums (Billboard)[48] 25 Chart (2014) Position US Soundtrack Albums (Billboard)[49] 24 Nautical chart (2015) Position U.s. Soundtrack Albums (Billboard)[50] 22 Nautical chart (2016) Position US Soundtrack Albums (Billboard)[51] 21 Chart (2017) Position US Soundtrack Albums (Billboard)[52] 25

Certifications [edit]

See also [edit]

• Down from the Mountain

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55. ^ "British album certifications – Soundtrack – O Brother, Where Art One thousand?". British Phonographic Industry. Retrieved ix July 2019. Select albums in the Format field.Select Platinum in the Certification field.Type O Brother, Where Art G? in the "Search BPI Awards" field and and then press Enter.

External links [edit]

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

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