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2000 soundtrack album by various artists

O Brother, Where Art One thousand?
Soundtrack album by various artists
Released	December 5, 2000 (2000-12-05)
Recorded	(modern tracks) Spring 1999
Studio	Sound Emporium, Nashville
Genre	State folk bluegrass blues gospel Americana soundtrack
Length	61:24
Characterization	Lost Highway/Mercury
Producer	T Bone Burnett

O Blood brother, Where Art K? is the soundtrack anthology 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 set in Mississippi during the Great Low. 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 equally Harry McClintock'due south 1928 unmarried "Big Rock Candy Mountain"), about 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'south O Blood brother sessions."^[1]

Development and sound [edit]

The soundtrack was conceived as a major component of the motion-picture show, not just as a groundwork or support. For this reason it was decided to record the soundtrack before filming.^[ii] T-Bone Burnett and Alan Larman were invited to blueprint collections of music.^[three]

Dirges and other macabre songs recurring in Appalachian music,^[4] such as "O Death", "Lonesome Valley", "Affections Band", and "I Am Weary", announced in the moving-picture show every bit a dissimilarity to the bright, cheerful songs like "Keep On the Sunnyside" and "In the Highways". Ralph Stanley of The Stanley Brothers personally recorded the a cappella folk vocal "O Death".^{[5] [vi]}

"I Am a Human being of Constant Sorrow" has five variations: two are used in the film, one in the music video, and two in the album. 2 of the variations feature the verses being sung back-to-back, and the other three variations feature additional music betwixt each verse.^[7] The voices of the Soggy Lesser Boys were provided by Dan Tyminski (lead vocal on "I Am a Homo of Constant Sorrow"), Nashville songwriter Harley Allen, and the Nashville Bluegrass Ring's Pat Enright.^[viii]

Reception and legacy [edit]

Professional person ratings

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

O Blood brother, Where Art M? won the Grammy Award for Album of the Yr in 2002, the Grammy Laurels for Best Country Collaboration with Vocals (for vocalist Dan Tyminski, whose vocalization overdubbed George Clooney'due south in the film on "I Am a Homo of Constant Sorrow", Nashville songwriter Harley Allen, and the Nashville Bluegrass Ring'south Pat Enright), and the Grammy Award for Best Male Land Vocal Functioning for "O, Death" past Ralph Stanley.

The album won the Anthology of the Year Accolade (only the second soundtrack to ever exercise then) and Unmarried of the Year Award for "I Am a Man of Abiding Sorrow" at the State Music Association Awards.^[18] Information technology too won the Album of the Year Award at the 37th University of Country Music Awards and took home ii International Bluegrass Music Awards: Anthology of the Year and Gospel Recorded Performance of the Year (for Alison Krauss and Gillian Welch on "I'll Wing Abroad").^[19]

In 2006, the album ranked No. 38 on CMT's twoscore Greatest Albums in State Music. In 2009, Rhapsody ranked it No. eight on the "Land's Best Albums of the Decade" list.^[20] Engine 145 Country Music Web log ranked it No. v on the "Country'due south Best Albums of the Decade" list.^[21] In 2010, All Songs Considered, a programme on NPR, included the soundtrack album on their list of "The Decade'due south l 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 not included in the original album, all but ii of which were previously unreleased songs from Burnett's original sessions.^{[23] [24]}

Commercial performance [edit]

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

Track listing [edit]

No.	Championship	Writer(s)	Artist	Length
1.	"Po' Lazarus"	traditional	James Carter and the Prisoners	iv:31
2.	"Big Rock Processed Mountain"	Harry McClintock	Harry McClintock	2:16
3.	"You Are My Sunshine"	Jimmie Davis, Charles Mitchell	Norman Blake	4:26
4.	"Downwards to the River to Pray"	traditional	Alison Krauss	ii:55
v.	"I Am a Man of Constant Sorrow" (radio station version)	Dick Burnett	The Soggy Bottom Boys	3:10
6.	"Hard Fourth dimension Killing Floor Dejection"	Skip James	Chris Thomas King	2:42
7.	"I Am a Man of Constant Sorrow" (instrumental)	Burnett	Norman Blake	4:28
8.	"Keep On the Sunny Side"	Ada Blenkhorn, J. Howard Entwisle	The Whites	3:33
9.	"I'll Wing Abroad"	Albert E. Brumley	Alison Krauss, Gillian Welch	3:57
10.	"Didn't Leave Nobody just the Baby"	traditional	Emmylou Harris, Alison Krauss, Gillian Welch	i:57
eleven.	"In the Highways"	Maybelle Carter	The Peasall Sisters	1:35
12.	"I Am Weary (Let Me Residuum)"	Pete Roberts (Pete Kuykendall)	The Cox Family	3:13
13.	"I Am a Man of Constant Sorrow" (instrumental)	Ed Haley	John Hartford	2:34
fourteen.	"O Death"	Lloyd Chandler	Ralph Stanley	3:19
15.	"In the Jailhouse Now"	Bullheaded Blake, Jimmie Rodgers	The Soggy Bottom Boys	3:34
16.	"I Am a Man of Constant Sorrow" (with ring)	Burnett	The Soggy Bottom Boys	4:16
17.	"Indian War Whoop" (instrumental)	Hoyt Ming	John Hartford	1:xxx
18.	"Lonesome Valley"	traditional	The Fairfield Four	iv:07
19.	"Affections Band"	traditional	The Stanley Brothers	2:15
Total length:				lx:18

10th Ceremony Deluxe Edition bonus disc

No.	Title	Artist	Length
1.	"Hard Time Killing Floor Dejection"	Colin Linden	1:fifteen
2.	"You lot Are My Sunshine"	Alan O'Bryant	three:29
3.	"Tishomingo Dejection"	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	5:19
seven.	"Continue On The Sunny Side"	The Cox Family	2:36
8.	"Angel Ring"	Hannah, Leah, Sarah Peasall and Robert Hamlett	0:58
9.	"Big Rock Processed Mountain"	Norman Blake	ii:18
ten.	"Trivial Sadie"	Norman Blake	1:50
11.	"In the Highways"	The Cox Family unit	2:12
12.	"Hogfoot"	John Hartford	iii:47
13.	"The Lord Will Make A Way"	The Fairfield Iv	two:36
14.	"In The Jailhouse Now"	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 Iv – 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, 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 Abrupt – Guitar Nathaniel Best – Lead Robert Hamlett – Vocals Joseph Rice – Vocals The Peasall Sisters Sarah Peasall – Alto vocal, guitar, harmony vocals Hannah Peasall – Soprano vocal, mandolin Leah Peasall – Tenor song, 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] xv Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria)[28] 70 Canadian Albums (Billboard)[29] 3 French Albums (SNEP)[30] 9 German language Albums (Offizielle Peak 100)[31] 87 New Zealand Albums (RMNZ)[32] 14 US Billboard 200[33] i US Top State Albums (Billboard)[34] 1 US Soundtrack Albums (Billboard)[35] 1

Year-end charts [edit] Year-cease chart performance for O Brother, Where Art Thou? Chart (2001) Position Canadian Albums (Nilsen Soundscan) [36] 31 Canadian Country Albums (Nielsen Soundscan)[37] 2 US Billboard 200[38] 23 US Acme Country Albums (Billboard)[39] 2 Usa Soundtrack Albums (Billboard)[twoscore] ane Chart (2002) Position Canadian Albums (Nielsen Soundscan)[41] nineteen Canadian Country Albums (Nielsen Soundscan)[42] 3 US Billboard 200[43] half dozen Usa Pinnacle Land Albums (Billboard)[44] one US Soundtrack Albums (Billboard)[45] i Nautical chart (2003) Position US Soundtrack Albums (Billboard)[46] 11 Chart (2004) Position US Soundtrack Albums (Billboard)[47] xiv Chart (2013) Position US Soundtrack Albums (Billboard)[48] 25 Nautical chart (2014) Position United states of america Soundtrack Albums (Billboard)[49] 24 Nautical chart (2015) Position Usa Soundtrack Albums (Billboard)[50] 22 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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External links [edit]

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

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