O Brother Where Art Thou? Ill Fly Away Other Recordings of This Song

2000 soundtrack album by various artists

O Brother, Where Art One thousand?
Soundtrack album by diverse artists
Released	December 5, 2000 (2000-12-05)
Recorded	(modern tracks) Leap 1999
Studio	Audio Emporium, Nashville
Genre	Land folk bluegrass dejection gospel Americana soundtrack
Length	61:24
Characterization	Lost Highway/Mercury
Producer	T Os Burnett

O Blood brother, Where Art Thou? is the soundtrack album of music from the 2000 American film of the same proper noun, 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 Depression. The soundtrack, produced by T-Os Burnett, uses bluegrass, country, gospel, blues, and Southern folk music appropriate to the time flow. With the exception of a few vintage tracks (such as Harry McClintock's 1928 single "Big Rock Candy Mountain"), most tracks are modernistic 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 every bit a major component of the moving picture, not just as a background or support. For this reason it was decided to record the soundtrack before filming.^[2] T-Bone Burnett and Alan Larman were invited to blueprint collections of music.^[iii]

Dirges and other macabre songs recurring in Appalachian music,^[4] such as "O Decease", "Lonesome Valley", "Angel Band", and "I Am Weary", appear in the film equally a contrast to the bright, 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 Death".^{[v] [6]}

"I Am a Man of Constant Sorrow" has five variations: two are used in the picture, one in the music video, and two in the anthology. Ii of the variations feature the verses being sung back-to-back, and the other 3 variations characteristic additional music betwixt each poesy.^[7] The voices of the Soggy Bottom Boys were provided by Dan Tyminski (atomic number 82 vocal on "I Am a Human of Constant Sorrow"), Nashville songwriter Harley Allen, and the Nashville Bluegrass Band's 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 Relate	[xi]
Entertainment Weekly	B+[12]
Pitchfork	8.iii/x[xiii]
Q	[14]
Rolling Stone	[xv]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide	[16]
Uncut	[17]

O Blood brother, Where Art K? won the Grammy Award for Anthology of the Year in 2002, the Grammy Award for Best Country Collaboration with Vocals (for singer Dan Tyminski, whose voice overdubbed George Clooney'south in the film on "I Am a Homo of Constant Sorrow", Nashville songwriter Harley Allen, and the Nashville Bluegrass Band's Pat Enright), and the Grammy Award for All-time Male Country Vocal Performance for "O, Death" past Ralph Stanley.

The album won the Album of the Year Award (only the 2d soundtrack to ever practise so) and Single of the Twelvemonth Award for "I Am a Man of Constant Sorrow" at the Land Music Association Awards.^[xviii] It also won the Album of the Twelvemonth Honor at the 37th Academy of State Music Awards and took dwelling house 2 International Bluegrass Music Awards: Album of the Year and Gospel Recorded Operation of the Twelvemonth (for Alison Krauss and Gillian Welch on "I'll Wing Abroad").^[19]

In 2006, the album ranked No. 38 on CMT's 40 Greatest Albums in Country Music. In 2009, Rhapsody ranked it No. 8 on the "Land'south Best Albums of the Decade" list.^[20] Engine 145 Country Music Blog ranked information technology No. five on the "Country'south All-time Albums of the Decade" listing.^[21] In 2010, All Songs Considered, a plan on NPR, included the soundtrack anthology on their list of "The Decade's 50 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, Down from the Mountain.

On Baronial 23, 2011, a tenth anniversary edition was released featuring a bonus disc with 14 new tracks that were non included in the original anthology, all merely ii of which were previously unreleased songs from Burnett'south original sessions.^{[23] [24]}

Commercial performance [edit]

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

Track list [edit]

No.	Championship	Writer(s)	Artist	Length
1.	"Po' Lazarus"	traditional	James Carter and the Prisoners	iv:31
2.	"Big Stone Candy Mountain"	Harry McClintock	Harry McClintock	2:16
3.	"You Are My Sunshine"	Jimmie Davis, Charles Mitchell	Norman Blake	4:26
4.	"Down to the River to Pray"	traditional	Alison Krauss	ii:55
5.	"I Am a Man of Constant Sorrow" (radio station version)	Dick Burnett	The Soggy Lesser Boys	3:x
6.	"Hard Fourth dimension Killing Floor Blues"	Skip James	Chris Thomas King	two:42
7.	"I Am a Human being of Constant Sorrow" (instrumental)	Burnett	Norman Blake	4:28
8.	"Keep On the Sunny Side"	Ada Blenkhorn, J. Howard Entwisle	The Whites	three:33
ix.	"I'll Wing Away"	Albert Due east. Brumley	Alison Krauss, Gillian Welch	3:57
ten.	"Didn't Get out Nobody but the Infant"	traditional	Emmylou Harris, Alison Krauss, Gillian Welch	1:57
11.	"In the Highways"	Maybelle Carter	The Peasall Sisters	one:35
12.	"I Am Weary (Allow Me Rest)"	Pete Roberts (Pete Kuykendall)	The Cox Family	iii:13
13.	"I Am a Human of Constant Sorrow" (instrumental)	Ed Haley	John Hartford	2:34
fourteen.	"O Death"	Lloyd Chandler	Ralph Stanley	three:19
xv.	"In the Jailhouse Now"	Bullheaded Blake, Jimmie Rodgers	The Soggy Bottom Boys	3:34
16.	"I Am a Man of Constant Sorrow" (with band)	Burnett	The Soggy Bottom Boys	iv:16
17.	"Indian War Whoop" (instrumental)	Hoyt Ming	John Hartford	one:30
eighteen.	"Lonesome Valley"	traditional	The Fairfield 4	4:07
xix.	"Angel Ring"	traditional	The Stanley Brothers	ii:xv
Total length:				60:xviii

tenth Anniversary Deluxe Edition bonus disc

No.	Title	Artist	Length
1.	"Hard Time Killing Floor Blues"	Colin Linden	1:15
2.	"You lot Are My Sunshine"	Alan O'Bryant	3:29
iii.	"Tishomingo Blues"	John Hartford	2:01
four.	"I'll Wing Away"	The Kossoy Sisters with Erik Darling	2:32
five.	"Big Stone Candy Mountain"	Van Dyke Parks	i:42
6.	"Tom Devil"	Ed Lewis & The Prisoners	5:19
7.	"Keep On The Sunny Side"	The Cox Family	2:36
8.	"Angel Band"	Hannah, Leah, Sarah Peasall and Robert Hamlett	0:58
nine.	"Big Rock Candy Mountain"	Norman Blake	2:18
10.	"Little Sadie"	Norman Blake	1:50
11.	"In the Highways"	The Cox Family unit	2:12
12.	"Hogfoot"	John Hartford	3:47
xiii.	"The Lord Volition Make A Manner"	The Fairfield Four	two:36
fourteen.	"In The Jailhouse Now"	Harley Allen	iii: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 – Mandolin Emmylou Harris – Performer John Hartford – Dabble, 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, lead

James Colina – 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 1000. 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 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

Nautical chart performance [edit]

Weekly charts [edit] Chart (2000–2002) Peak position Australian Albums (ARIA)[27] 15 Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria)[28] 70 Canadian Albums (Billboard)[29] iii French Albums (SNEP)[30] nine German Albums (Offizielle Top 100)[31] 87 New Zealand Albums (RMNZ)[32] 14 US Billboard 200[33] 1 United states Top Country Albums (Billboard)[34] one US Soundtrack Albums (Billboard)[35] 1

Year-stop charts [edit] Twelvemonth-end chart performance for O Brother, Where Fine art Thou? Chart (2001) Position Canadian Albums (Nilsen Soundscan) [36] 31 Canadian Country Albums (Nielsen Soundscan)[37] 2 U.s.a. Billboard 200[38] 23 Us Top Country Albums (Billboard)[39] two US Soundtrack Albums (Billboard)[twoscore] i Chart (2002) Position Canadian Albums (Nielsen Soundscan)[41] xix Canadian Country Albums (Nielsen Soundscan)[42] 3 US Billboard 200[43] 6 Us Top State Albums (Billboard)[44] one US Soundtrack Albums (Billboard)[45] ane Chart (2003) Position U.s. Soundtrack Albums (Billboard)[46] 11 Chart (2004) Position US Soundtrack Albums (Billboard)[47] 14 Nautical chart (2013) Position U.s. Soundtrack Albums (Billboard)[48] 25 Nautical chart (2014) Position The states Soundtrack Albums (Billboard)[49] 24 Chart (2015) Position The states Soundtrack Albums (Billboard)[50] 22 Chart (2016) Position United states of america Soundtrack Albums (Billboard)[51] 21 Chart (2017) Position US Soundtrack Albums (Billboard)[52] 25

Certifications [edit]

See also [edit]

• Down from the Mount

References [edit]

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55. ^ "British anthology certifications – Soundtrack – O Brother, Where Art Thousand?". British Phonographic Industry. Retrieved 9 July 2019. Select albums in the Format field.Select Platinum in the Certification field.Type O Blood brother, Where Art Thou? in the "Search BPI Awards" field then printing Enter.

External links [edit]

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

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