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O Brother, Where Art Thou? (CD)

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Track Listing
DISC 1 for O Brother, Where Art Thou? (CD) Album By Original Soundtrack
1   Po' Lazarus - James Carter & The Prisoners
2   Big Rock Candy Mountain - Harry McClintock
3   You Are My Sunshine - Norman Blake
4   Down To The River To Pray - Alison Krauss
5   I Am A Man Of Constant Sorrow - The Soggy Bottom Boys/Dan Tyminski (radio version)
6   Hard Time Killing Floor Blues - Chris Thomas King
7   I Am A Man Of Constant Sorrow - Norman Blake
8   Keep On The Sunny Side - The Whites
9   I'll Fly Away - Alison Krauss/Gillian Welch
10   Didn't Leave Nobody But The Baby - Emmylou Harris/Alison Krauss/Gillian Welch
11   In The Highways - Sara, Hanna & Leah Peasall
12   I Am Weary (Let Me Rest) - The Cox Family
13   I Am A Man Of Constant Sorrow - John Hartford
14   O Death - Ralph Stanley
15   In The Jailhouse Now - The Soggy Bottom Boys/Tim Blake Nelson
16   I Am A Man Of Constant Sorrow - The Soggy Bottom Boys/Dan Tyminski (band version)
17   Indian War Whoop - John Hartford
18   Lonesome Valley - The Fairfield Four
19   Angel Band - The Stanley Brothers
 
Review

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".

Title Note

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."

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5 out of 5 stars O Brother.., February 6, 2008
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Here art Thou classic cd.

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