| Product Summary | | Label: Uni/mercury Nashville | | UPC: 00008817006925 | | Release Date: 12/5/2000 | | Buy.com Sku: 60450876 | | Item#: M29CSY | | Buy.com Sales Rank: 2060 | Format:  CD |
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Disc 1
| | Song Title | Sample | | 1. Po' Lazarus - James Carter & The Prisoners ~ Original Soundtrack |  | | 2. Big Rock Candy Mountain - Harry McClintock ~ Original Soundtrack | | | 3. You Are My Sunshine - Norman Blake ~ Original Soundtrack | | | 4. Down To The River To Pray - Alison Krauss ~ Original Soundtrack | | | 5. I Am A Man Of Constant Sorrow - The Soggy Bottom Boys/Dan Tyminski (radio version) ~ Original Soundtrack | | | 6. Hard Time Killing Floor Blues - Chris Thomas King ~ Original Soundtrack | | | 7. I Am A Man Of Constant Sorrow - Norman Blake ~ Original Soundtrack | | | 8. Keep On The Sunny Side - The Whites ~ Original Soundtrack | | | 9. I'll Fly Away - Alison Krauss/Gillian Welch ~ Original Soundtrack | | | 10. Didn't Leave Nobody But The Baby - Emmylou Harris/Alison Krauss/Gillian Welch ~ Original Soundtrack | | | 11. In The Highways - Sara, Hanna & Leah Peasall ~ Original Soundtrack | | | 12. I Am Weary (Let Me Rest) - The Cox Family ~ Original Soundtrack | | | 13. I Am A Man Of Constant Sorrow - John Hartford ~ Original Soundtrack | | | 14. O Death - Ralph Stanley ~ Original Soundtrack | | | 15. In The Jailhouse Now - The Soggy Bottom Boys/Tim Blake Nelson ~ Original Soundtrack | | | 16. I Am A Man Of Constant Sorrow - The Soggy Bottom Boys/Dan Tyminski (band version) ~ Original Soundtrack | | | 17. Indian War Whoop - John Hartford ~ Original Soundtrack | | | 18. Lonesome Valley - The Fairfield Four ~ Original Soundtrack | | | 19. Angel Band - The Stanley Brothers ~ Original Soundtrack | |
| 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 a (multi-channel) Super Audio CD playable only on Super Audio CD players. | | 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. | | The critical consensus at the end of 2000 was that it had been one of the weakest film years in recent memory. Which may have been true, despite O Brother, Where Art Thou?, the Coen brothers' delightfully warm and weird Depression-era re-telling of Homer's Odyssey. But for music lovers, 2000 was an amazing year at the movies, and it produced several excellent soundtrack compilations including Almost Famous, Dancer in the Dark, Wonder Boys, and High Fidelity. Even with such steep competition, the soundtrack album for O Brother, Where Art Thou? may be the best of the year. In order to capture the sound of Mississippi circa 1932, the Coens commissioned T-Bone Burnett, a masterful producer whose work with artists like Elvis Costello, Sam Phillips, Joseph Arthur, and Counting Crows has earned him a special place in the folk-rock hall of fame, to research and re-create the country, bluegrass, folk, gospel, and blues of the era. The Coens were so taken with Burnett's discoveries that the film became a unique sort of musical revue. There are no original compositions here (though Burnett is given a "music by" credit usually reserved for composers), and the characters do not generally break into stylized song and dance numbers (as they do in, say, Everyone Says I Love You). But nearly every scene in O Brother is set to a period song, and the music frequently drives and defines the action. With two exceptions -- a stunning 1955 Alan Lomax recording of a black prison chain gang singing "Po Lazarus", and Harry McClintock's "Big Rock Candy Mountain" -- every song was recorded for the film by an impressive assembly of old-time country veterans (Fairfield Four, Ralph Stanley, the Whites) and talented newcomers (Gillian Welch, Alison Krauss, Emmylou Harris). These recordings, which were made without the meddling clarity of digital technology, give the film much of its power and authenticity. A significant segment of the plot hinges on the (utterly plausible) notion that Dan Tyminksi's ebullient rendition of "I Am a Man of Constant Sorrow" could be a runaway hit. A memorable sequence involving three riverside sirens centers around an eerie version of "Didn't Leave Nobody But the Baby." And Stanley's a cappella performance of "O Death" sets a chilling tone for a climactic struggle at a Ku Klux Klan rally. Throughout, Burnett's steady guiding hand is evident. This soundtrack is a powerful tribute not only to the time-honored but commercially ignored genres of bluegrass and mountain music but also to Burnett's remarkable skills as a producer. ~ Evan Cater | | 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." | | 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..." 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..." 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..." 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..." 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". 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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