Track Listing
1. Po' Lazarus - Carter, J. & The Prisoners
2. Big Rock Candy Mountain - McLintock, Harry
3. You Are My Sunshine - Blake, Norman
4. Down In The River To Pray - Blake, Norman
5. I Am A Man Of Constant Sorrow (radio version) - Soggy Bottom Boys
6. Hard Time Killing Floor Blues - King, Chris Thomas
7. I Am A Man Of Constant Sorrow (instrumental) - Blake, Norman
8. Keep On The Sunny Side Of Life - Whites
9. I'll Fly Away - Welch, Gillian & Alison Krauss
10. He Didn't Leave Nobody But The Baby - Welch, Gillian & Alison Krauss/Emmylou Harris
11. In The Highways - Peasall Sisters
12. I Am Weary (Let Me Rest) - Cox Family
13. I Am A Man Of Constant Sorrow (instrumental) - Hartford, John
14. O'Death - Stanley, Ralph
15. In The Jailhouse Now - Soggy Bottom Boys
16. I Am A Man Of Constant Sorrow (with band) - Soggy Bottom Boys
17. Indian War Hoop - Hartford, John
18. Lonesome Valley - Fairfield Four
19. Angel Band - Stanley Brothers
| Details | | Number of CDs: | 1 | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Distributor: | Universal Music | | Recording Mode: | Mixed |
Album Notes
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.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."
Editorial Reviews
4 stars out of 5 - ...Mostly traditional spirituals and bluegrass numbers....richly evocative of its time and place, and educational too...
Q (12/01/2000)
Included in Mojo's 100 Coolest Movie Soundtracks.
Mojo (06/01/2002)
...The rarest of contemporary soundtracks: good (old) music, coherently programmed, and masterfully perfromed....an exceptional album...
No Depression (01/01/2001)
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 (01/18/2001)
Ranked #3 in Mojo's Best [10] Box Sets & Compilations of 2001.
Mojo (01/01/2002)
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 (10/12/2001)
Ranked #9 in Rolling Stone's Top 10 2001.
Rolling Stone (01/03/2002)
Ranked #9 in Rolling Stone's Top 10 2001.Mojo (6/02, p.68) - Included in Mojo's 100 Coolest Movie Soundtracks.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...Mojo (1/02, p.70) - Ranked #3 in Mojo's Best [10] Box Sets & Compilations of 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...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...
Rolling Stone (01/03/2002)
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...Mojo (6/02, p.68) - Included in Mojo's 100 Coolest Movie Soundtracks.Mojo (1/02, p.70) - Ranked #3 in Mojo's Best [10] Box Sets & Compilations of 2001.No Depression (1-2/01, p.90) - ...The rarest of contemporary soundtracks: good (old) music, coherently programmed, and masterfully perfromed....an exceptional album...
Rolling Stone (01/03/2002)
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