Song Tommy Sings in Oh Brother Where Art Thou

2000 soundtrack album by diverse artists

O Blood brother, Where Art K?
Soundtrack album past various artists
Released	December five, 2000 (2000-12-05)
Recorded	(modern tracks) Spring 1999
Studio	Audio Emporium, Nashville
Genre	Land folk bluegrass blues gospel Americana soundtrack
Length	61:24
Label	Lost Highway/Mercury
Producer	T Bone Burnett

O Blood brother, Where Art 1000? is the soundtrack album of music from the 2000 American pic 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 Depression. The soundtrack, produced by T-Bone Burnett, uses bluegrass, country, gospel, blues, and Southern folk music appropriate to the fourth dimension period. With the exception of a few vintage tracks (such as Harry McClintock'southward 1928 single "Big Stone Candy Mountain"), nearly tracks are modern 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-Bone Burnett'due south O Brother sessions."^[1]

Evolution and sound [edit]

The soundtrack was conceived every bit a major component of the film, not just equally a background or support. For this reason information technology was decided to tape the soundtrack before filming.^[2] T-Bone Burnett and Alan Larman were invited to pattern collections of music.^[iii]

Dirges and other macabre songs recurring in Appalachian music,^[4] such as "O Death", "Lonesome Valley", "Affections Ring", and "I Am Weary", appear in the film equally a contrast to the bright, cheerful songs like "Go along On the Sunnyside" and "In the Highways". Ralph Stanley of The Stanley Brothers personally recorded the a cappella folk song "O Death".^{[v] [half-dozen]}

"I Am a Man of Constant Sorrow" has v variations: 2 are used in the film, one in the music video, and two in the album. Two of the variations feature the verses being sung back-to-dorsum, and the other three variations characteristic additional music between each verse.^[7] The voices of the Soggy Bottom 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'due south Pat Enright.^[8]

Reception and legacy [edit]

Professional ratings

Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	83/100[9]
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[ten]
The Austin Chronicle	[eleven]
Entertainment Weekly	B+[12]
Pitchfork	8.3/10[xiii]
Q	[14]
Rolling Stone	[xv]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide	[16]
Uncut	[17]

O Brother, Where Art Thou? won the Grammy Award for Album of the Yr in 2002, the Grammy Laurels for Best Land Collaboration with Vocals (for vocalist Dan Tyminski, whose vox overdubbed George Clooney's in the picture show on "I Am a Man of Constant Sorrow", Nashville songwriter Harley Allen, and the Nashville Bluegrass Band'due south Pat Enright), and the Grammy Laurels for Best Male person Country Vocal Functioning for "O, Death" by Ralph Stanley.

The album won the Anthology of the Year Laurels (only the second soundtrack to e'er practise so) and Single of the Year Award for "I Am a Homo of Constant Sorrow" at the Country Music Association Awards.^[18] It also won the Album of the Year Award at the 37th Academy of Country Music Awards and took domicile 2 International Bluegrass Music Awards: Anthology of the Year and Gospel Recorded Performance of the Year (for Alison Krauss and Gillian Welch on "I'll Fly Away").^[nineteen]

In 2006, the album ranked No. 38 on CMT's 40 Greatest Albums in Country Music. In 2009, Rhapsody ranked information technology No. 8 on the "Country'south Best Albums of the Decade" list.^[xx] Engine 145 Country Music Weblog ranked it No. 5 on the "Country's Best Albums of the Decade" list.^[21] In 2010, All Songs Considered, a plan on NPR, included the soundtrack album 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 picture show, Downward from the Mount.

On August 23, 2011, a 10th anniversary edition was released featuring a bonus disc with 14 new tracks that were not included in the original album, all but 2 of which were previously unreleased songs from Burnett'due south original sessions.^{[23] [24]}

Commercial performance [edit]

The anthology charted at No. 1 on Billboard 200 In 2001, and spent over 20 weeks on the Billboard Top Country Albums Chart. The soundtrack CD became a best seller; it was first certified Gilt past the RIAA on February 9, 2001, and reached 8 times Platinum past October x, 2007.^[25] It has sold eight,175,800 copies in the United States equally of October 2019.^[26]

Track listing [edit]

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Creative person	Length
1.	"Po' Lazarus"	traditional	James Carter and the Prisoners	4:31
2.	"Big Rock Candy Mount"	Harry McClintock	Harry McClintock	2:16
3.	"Yous Are My Sunshine"	Jimmie Davis, Charles Mitchell	Norman Blake	iv:26
4.	"Down to the River to Pray"	traditional	Alison Krauss	ii:55
v.	"I Am a Homo of Abiding Sorrow" (radio station version)	Dick Burnett	The Soggy Bottom Boys	3:10
vi.	"Hard Fourth dimension Killing Floor Blues"	Skip James	Chris Thomas King	two: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
nine.	"I'll Wing Away"	Albert East. Brumley	Alison Krauss, Gillian Welch	3:57
10.	"Didn't Leave Nobody but 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 Rest)"	Pete Roberts (Pete Kuykendall)	The Cox Family	3:13
thirteen.	"I Am a Human being of Constant Sorrow" (instrumental)	Ed Haley	John Hartford	2:34
14.	"O Death"	Lloyd Chandler	Ralph Stanley	3:19
15.	"In the Jailhouse Now"	Blind 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:xvi
17.	"Indian War Whoop" (instrumental)	Hoyt Ming	John Hartford	1:30
18.	"Lonesome Valley"	traditional	The Fairfield Four	4:07
19.	"Angel Band"	traditional	The Stanley Brothers	2:xv
Total length:				60:18

10th Anniversary Deluxe Edition bonus disc

No.	Title	Artist	Length
1.	"Hard Time Killing Floor Blues"	Colin Linden	one:fifteen
two.	"You Are My Sunshine"	Alan O'Bryant	iii:29
iii.	"Tishomingo Dejection"	John Hartford	2:01
4.	"I'll Fly Abroad"	The Kossoy Sisters with Erik Darling	2:32
5.	"Large Rock Candy Mountain"	Van Dyke Parks	ane:42
six.	"Tom Devil"	Ed Lewis & The Prisoners	v:19
7.	"Proceed On The Sunny Side"	The Cox Family	2:36
eight.	"Angel Band"	Hannah, Leah, Sarah Peasall and Robert Hamlett	0:58
9.	"Big Stone Processed Mountain"	Norman Blake	2:18
x.	"Little Sadie"	Norman Blake	1:50
11.	"In the Highways"	The Cox Family	two:12
12.	"Hogfoot"	John Hartford	3:47
xiii.	"The Lord Will Brand A Way"	The Fairfield 4	two:36
xiv.	"In The Jailhouse Now"	Harley Allen	iii:05
Total length:			35:xl

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 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 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 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 One thousand. 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 Best – Atomic number 82 Robert Hamlett – Vocals Joseph Rice – Vocals The Peasall Sisters Sarah Peasall – Alto vocal, guitar, harmony vocals Hannah Peasall – Soprano song, 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

Nautical chart functioning [edit]

Weekly charts [edit] Nautical chart (2000–2002) Top position Australian Albums (ARIA)[27] 15 Austrian Albums (Ö3 Republic of austria)[28] seventy Canadian Albums (Billboard)[29] 3 French Albums (SNEP)[30] 9 German Albums (Offizielle Acme 100)[31] 87 New Zealand Albums (RMNZ)[32] 14 Us Billboard 200[33] 1 US Summit Country Albums (Billboard)[34] 1 The states Soundtrack Albums (Billboard)[35] ane

Year-end charts [edit] Year-finish chart operation for O Blood brother, Where Fine art M? Chart (2001) Position Canadian Albums (Nilsen Soundscan) [36] 31 Canadian Country Albums (Nielsen Soundscan)[37] two United states of america Billboard 200[38] 23 The states Summit Country Albums (Billboard)[39] 2 United states of america Soundtrack Albums (Billboard)[xl] 1 Nautical chart (2002) Position Canadian Albums (Nielsen Soundscan)[41] 19 Canadian Country Albums (Nielsen Soundscan)[42] 3 US Billboard 200[43] 6 US Summit Country Albums (Billboard)[44] i Us Soundtrack Albums (Billboard)[45] one Chart (2003) Position Us Soundtrack Albums (Billboard)[46] eleven Chart (2004) Position Usa Soundtrack Albums (Billboard)[47] 14 Chart (2013) Position US Soundtrack Albums (Billboard)[48] 25 Chart (2014) Position US Soundtrack Albums (Billboard)[49] 24 Chart (2015) Position US Soundtrack Albums (Billboard)[50] 22 Chart (2016) Position Usa Soundtrack Albums (Billboard)[51] 21 Nautical chart (2017) Position The states Soundtrack Albums (Billboard)[52] 25

Certifications [edit]

See likewise [edit]

• Down from the Mountain

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External links [edit]

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

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