| Product Summary | | Label: Uni/mercury Nashville | | UPC: 00008817006925 | | Release Date: 12/5/2000 | | Buy.com Sku: 60450876 | | Item#: M29CSY | | Buy.com Sales Rank: 52680 | Format:  CD |
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| Hillbilly and bluegrass sounds underscore T-Bone Burnett's soundtrack to the award-winning Coen brothers film. Burnett researched into the type of music that was popular in 1937 to give added musical element to the movie. Among the musical legends T Bone called on to be part of the soundtrack are Ralph Stanley, Gillian Welch, John Hartford, Alison Krauss, Emmylou Harris, the Fairfield Four, and Norman Blake. There are 19 tracks on this soundtrack.
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Notes & Personnel Info | | This is an Enhanced CD, which contains regular audio tracks and multimedia computer files. | | Includes a 24-page booklet with liner notes by Robert K. Oermann. | | O BROTHER, WHERE ART THOU? won the 2002 Grammy Awards for Album Of The Year and for Best Compilation Soundtrack Album For A Motion Picture, Television Or Other Visual Media. "O Death" won the 2002 Grammy Award for Best Male Country Vocal Performance. "I Am A Man Of Constant Sorrow" won the 2002 Grammy Award for Best Country Collaboration With Vocals. | | This is an Enhanced CD, which contains both regular audio tracks and multimedia computer files. | | Those kings of cinematic quirkiness, the Coen brothers, fashioned their film O BROTHER, WHERE ART THOU? as a contemporary adaption of Homer's Odyssey, centering around a group of American chain-gang prisoners. The film's earthy Southern setting makes it a natural for a bluegrass-oriented soundtrack, for which producer T-Bone Burnett picked the cream of the country crop. | | "Didn't Leave Nobody But the Baby," for example, is a summit meeting of some of the finest contemporary female country vocalists (Gillian Welch, Emmylou Harris, and Alison Krauss). The old school isn't forgotten either, as evidenced by a chilling a cappella rendering of "O Death," courtesy of Ralph Stanley, and by the closing cut, where the Stanley Brothers issue an elegant plea to heaven with "Angel Band." |
| | Artist Overview | | T-Bone Burnett is an artist of broad skills. Known primarily for his work as a producer (Counting Crows, Elvis Costello), he's also a skilled singer-songwriter whose writing is insightful and impassioned, while his singing is committed and honest and his guitar playing inventive while rooted in tradition. His biggest commercial success came with his overseeing of the O BROTHER WHERE ART THOU? soundtrack in 2000, a multi-platinum seller that helped kickstart a bluegrass revival. |
| | Technical Info | | Release Date : 12/05/2000 | | Original Release Date : 2000 | | Catalog ID : 170 069 | | Label : Mercury Nashville | | Number of Discs : 1 | | Studio/Live : Studio | | Mono/Stereo : Mixed | | SPAR Code : n/a | | UPC : 00008817006925 |
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| | Professional Reviews | | Rolling Stone (1/03/02, p.119)
- Ranked #9 in Rolling Stone's "Top 10 2001".Rolling Stone (1/18/01, pp.56-7)
- 3.5 stars out of 5 - "...A collection of folk, bluegrass, gospel and hobo country so true to the music's down-home, egalitarian roots that it's hard to distinguish the old tracks from the new and the folk heroes from screen actors..." Entertainment Weekly (10/12/01, p.38)
- Ranked #56 in EW's "100 Best Movie Soundtracks" - "...An unlikely hillbilly smash making 1930s-style string-band music the 1st trend of the 21st-century..." Q (12/00, p.139)
- 4 stars out of 5 - "...Mostly traditional spirituals and bluegrass numbers....richly evocative of its time and place, and educational too..." No Depression (1-2/01, p.90)
- "...The rarest of contemporary soundtracks: good (old)
music, coherently programmed, and masterfully perfromed....an exceptional album..." Mojo (Publisher)
(6/02, p.68)
- Included in Mojo's "100 Coolest Movie Soundtracks". Mojo (Publisher)
(1/02, p.70)
- Ranked #3 in Mojo's "Best [10] Box Sets & Compilations of 2001". |
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| Customer Reviews | ![]() | | Production |  5 | | Performance | 5 | | Composition | 5 | | Overall Satisfaction | 5 |
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5 of 5 Review of O Brother Where Art There? Tuesday, August 05, 2008
LyricontheLake from Arnoldsville, GA
This CD is the sound tract of the movie. The music is different and enjoyable. If you enjoyed the movie, you will enjoy the sound tract. Was this review helpful?  
5 of 5 Eastside Highschool Newspaper Review Friday, September 27, 2002
Davey Morgan - daveymorgan@justspies.com from Greenville, South Carolina
O Brother, Where Art Thou?" is the soundtrack produced by T Bone Burnett to go along with the movie "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" produced by the Coen Brothers. T Bone Burnett produced albums for well know artists and groups such as Counting Crows, Elvis Costello, and The Wallflowers. It has such a diverse range of music that accompanies the storyline perfectly. The
soundtrack ranges from southern gospel, blues, folk, and plain old country. Each song adds to the quirkiness of the story (which is loosely based on Homer's Odyssey". Gillian Welch, Alison Krauss and Norman Blake all perform on this album, which adds great talent to the soundtrack. The soundtrack is a great collection of talent, artistry and musician-ship. Songs as You Are My Sunshine is used in other TV shows and movies, such
as Star Trek (an unusual combination). Alison Krauss has been at the top of Billboard Charts and other types of country charts. Some of the other artists and groups on the soundtrack have also been on high spots on music charts. Any lover of great country music and who liked the movie should have this soundtrack. Was this review helpful?
5 of 5 Captures the texture of the film Friday, October 12, 2001
George from Las Vegas, NV
The music in this movie plays such a huge part in creating that depression-era southern texture. If you liked the quirky freshness of the film, you will enjoy listening to the soundtrack. Was this review helpful?
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