Who Actually Sang the Songs of Oh Brother Where Art Thou

2000 soundtrack anthology by diverse artists

O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Soundtrack album past various artists
Released	Dec 5, 2000 (2000-12-05)
Recorded	(modernistic tracks) Spring 1999
Studio	Sound Emporium, Nashville
Genre	Country folk bluegrass dejection gospel Americana soundtrack
Length	61:24
Label	Lost Highway/Mercury
Producer	T Bone Burnett

O Blood brother, Where Fine art G? 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 set in Mississippi during the Not bad Depression. The soundtrack, produced by T-Bone Burnett, uses bluegrass, country, gospel, blues, and Southern folk music appropriate to the time period. With the exception of a few vintage tracks (such equally Harry McClintock's 1928 single "Big Rock Candy Mountain"), most tracks are modern recordings.

The soundtrack was reissued on Baronial 23, 2011, with 14 new tracks that were non included in the original anthology, "including 12 previously unreleased cuts from music producer T-Bone Burnett's O Brother sessions."^[1]

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 information technology was decided to record the soundtrack before filming.^[2] T-Os Burnett and Alan Larman were invited to design collections of music.^[iii]

Dirges and other macabre songs recurring in Appalachian music,^[4] such equally "O Death", "Lonesome Valley", "Angel Band", and "I Am Weary", appear in the film as 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 Expiry".^{[5] [6]}

"I Am a Human of Constant Sorrow" has five variations: 2 are used in the flick, one in the music video, and ii in the album. Ii of the variations characteristic the verses being sung back-to-back, and the other three variations feature additional music between each poesy.^[7] The voices of the Soggy Lesser Boys were provided by Dan Tyminski (lead vocal on "I Am a Man of Constant Sorrow"), Nashville songwriter Harley Allen, and the Nashville Bluegrass Band's Pat Enright.^[eight]

Reception and legacy [edit]

Professional ratings

Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	83/100[ix]
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[10]
The Austin Chronicle	[xi]
Entertainment Weekly	B+[12]
Pitchfork	eight.3/ten[13]
Q	[14]
Rolling Stone	[15]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide	[16]
Uncut	[17]

O Brother, Where Art G? won the Grammy Honor for Album of the Twelvemonth in 2002, the Grammy Award for Best State Collaboration with Vocals (for vocalist Dan Tyminski, whose voice overdubbed George Clooney's in the film on "I Am a Man of Constant Sorrow", Nashville songwriter Harley Allen, and the Nashville Bluegrass Ring's Pat Enright), and the Grammy Honour for All-time Male person Country Vocal Performance for "O, Death" past Ralph Stanley.

The album won the Anthology of the Yr Laurels (merely the 2nd soundtrack to e'er do so) and Single of the Twelvemonth Accolade for "I Am a Man of Constant Sorrow" at the Country Music Clan Awards.^[18] It also won the Album of the Year Award at the 37th Academy of Land Music Awards and took home 2 International Bluegrass Music Awards: Album of the Yr and Gospel Recorded Functioning of the Year (for Alison Krauss and Gillian Welch on "I'll Fly Abroad").^[nineteen]

In 2006, the album ranked No. 38 on CMT'southward twoscore Greatest Albums in Land Music. In 2009, Rhapsody ranked it No. 8 on the "Country's All-time Albums of the Decade" list.^[twenty] Engine 145 Land Music Blog ranked it No. 5 on the "Country'south Best 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 l Well-nigh Of import 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 August 23, 2011, a 10th anniversary edition was released featuring a bonus disc with 14 new tracks that were non included in the original album, all but two of which were previously unreleased songs from Burnett's original sessions.^{[23] [24]}

Commercial performance [edit]

The anthology charted at No. ane 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 Aureate 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 United States as of October 2019.^[26]

Runway listing [edit]

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Artist	Length
i.	"Po' Lazarus"	traditional	James Carter and the Prisoners	4:31
ii.	"Large Stone Candy Mountain"	Harry McClintock	Harry McClintock	2:16
3.	"Yous Are My Sunshine"	Jimmie Davis, Charles Mitchell	Norman Blake	four:26
iv.	"Downwardly to the River to Pray"	traditional	Alison Krauss	2:55
5.	"I Am a Human of Constant Sorrow" (radio station version)	Dick Burnett	The Soggy Lesser Boys	3:x
6.	"Difficult Time Killing Floor Dejection"	Skip James	Chris Thomas King	2:42
vii.	"I Am a Human of Constant Sorrow" (instrumental)	Burnett	Norman Blake	4:28
viii.	"Keep On the Sunny Side"	Ada Blenkhorn, J. Howard Entwisle	The Whites	3:33
nine.	"I'll Wing Away"	Albert E. Brumley	Alison Krauss, Gillian Welch	three:57
10.	"Didn't Leave Nobody but the Infant"	traditional	Emmylou Harris, Alison Krauss, Gillian Welch	1:57
xi.	"In the Highways"	Maybelle Carter	The Peasall Sisters	one:35
12.	"I Am Weary (Allow Me Rest)"	Pete Roberts (Pete Kuykendall)	The Cox Family unit	3:13
13.	"I Am a Homo of Abiding Sorrow" (instrumental)	Ed Haley	John Hartford	2:34
xiv.	"O Death"	Lloyd Chandler	Ralph Stanley	iii:xix
fifteen.	"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	four:16
17.	"Indian War Whoop" (instrumental)	Hoyt Ming	John Hartford	i:thirty
18.	"Lonesome Valley"	traditional	The Fairfield 4	4:07
19.	"Angel Band"	traditional	The Stanley Brothers	2:15
Total length:				60:xviii

tenth Ceremony Deluxe Edition bonus disc

No.	Championship	Artist	Length
ane.	"Difficult Time Killing Floor Blues"	Colin Linden	1:fifteen
2.	"You Are My Sunshine"	Alan O'Bryant	three:29
3.	"Tishomingo Blues"	John Hartford	2:01
four.	"I'll Fly Away"	The Kossoy Sisters with Erik Darling	2:32
5.	"Big Rock 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
9.	"Big Rock Candy Mountain"	Norman Blake	ii:18
ten.	"Piffling Sadie"	Norman Blake	1:50
11.	"In the Highways"	The Cox Family	ii:12
12.	"Hogfoot"	John Hartford	three:47
13.	"The Lord Will Make A Way"	The Fairfield Iv	2:36
14.	"In The Jailhouse Now"	Harley Allen	3:05
Total length:			35:forty

Personnel [edit]

Norman Blake – Performer, guitar, vocals Jerry Douglas – Dobro Alison Krauss – Vocals, harmony vocals Chris Abrupt – 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: 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 Cake – Banjo Curtis Burch – Dobro T Bone Burnett – Arranger, producer The Cox Family unit: 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 Loma – 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 All-time – Atomic number 82 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 operation [edit]

Weekly charts [edit] Nautical chart (2000–2002) Tiptop position Australian Albums (ARIA)[27] 15 Austrian Albums (Ö3 Republic of austria)[28] 70 Canadian Albums (Billboard)[29] 3 French Albums (SNEP)[30] 9 High german Albums (Offizielle Superlative 100)[31] 87 New Zealand Albums (RMNZ)[32] 14 US Billboard 200[33] 1 US Superlative Country Albums (Billboard)[34] 1 U.s.a. Soundtrack Albums (Billboard)[35] 1

Year-finish charts [edit] Twelvemonth-end chart performance for O Brother, Where Fine art 1000? Chart (2001) Position Canadian Albums (Nilsen Soundscan) [36] 31 Canadian Country Albums (Nielsen Soundscan)[37] ii U.s.a. Billboard 200[38] 23 The states Acme Country Albums (Billboard)[39] ii US Soundtrack Albums (Billboard)[40] 1 Chart (2002) Position Canadian Albums (Nielsen Soundscan)[41] nineteen Canadian Country Albums (Nielsen Soundscan)[42] 3 US Billboard 200[43] 6 US Top Country Albums (Billboard)[44] 1 United states of america 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 US Soundtrack Albums (Billboard)[48] 25 Chart (2014) Position United states of america Soundtrack Albums (Billboard)[49] 24 Chart (2015) Position U.s.a. 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]

Run across also [edit]

• Downwardly from the Mountain

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External links [edit]

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

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