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O Brother, Where Art Thou?

Artist: Various
Genre: Soundtrack
Label: Lost Highway
Release: Jan 2000
# of Discs: 1
Rating: 4.5 (469 votes)
UPC: 0008817006925
Disc ID: 090e2e13
ASIN: B00004XQ83
Personal Details
Date Added: 15 Jan 2007
Price: $13.98
Tracks
James Carter & The Prisoners
Po Lazarus (4:29)
Harry McClintock
Big Rock Candy Mountain (2:16)
Norman Blake
You Are My Sunshine (4:27)
Alison Krauss
Down To The River To Pray (2:55)
Soggy Bottom Boys Feat. Dan Tyminski
I Am A Man Of Constant Sorrow (Radio Station Version) (3:10)
Chris Thomas King
Hard Time Killing Floor Blues (2:42)
Norman Blake
I Am A Man Of Constant Sorrow (Instrumental) (4:29)
The Whites
Keep On The Sunny Side (3:34)
Gillian Welch & Alison Krauss
I'll Fly Away (3:57)
Gillian Welch, Alison Krauss & Emmylou Harris
Didn't Leave Nobody But The Baby (1:57)
Sarah, Hannah And Leah Peasall
In The Highways (1:36)
The Cox Family
I Am Weary (Let Me Rest) (3:14)
John Hartford
I Am A Man Of Constant Sorrow (Instrumental) (2:34)
Ralph Stanley
O Death (3:19)
Soggy Bottom Boys Feat. Tim Blake Nelson
In The Jailhouse Now (3:36)
Soggy Bottom Boys Feat. Dan Tyminski
I Am A Man Of Constant Sorrow(With Band) (4:16)
John Hartford
Indian War Whoop (1:30)
Fairfield Four
Lonesome Valley (4:07)
The Stanley Brothers
Angel Band (2:14)
Comments
\nYEAR: 2001 ID3G: 17
Summary
The best soundtracks are like movies for the ears, and "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" joins the likes of "Saturday Night Fever" and "The Harder They Come" as cinematic pinnacles of song. The music from the Coen brothers' Depression-era film taps into the source from which the purest strains of country, blues, bluegrass, folk, and gospel music flow. Producer T Bone Burnett enlists the voices of Alison Krauss, Gillian Welch, Emmylou Harris, Ralph Stanley, and kindred spirits for performances of traditional material, in arrangements that are either a cappella or feature bare-bones accompaniment. Highlights range from the aching purity of Krauss's "Down to the River to Pray" to the plainspoken faith of the Whites' "Keep on the Sunny Side" to Stanley's chillingly plaintive "O Death." The album's spiritual centerpiece finds Krauss, Welch, and Harris harmonizing on "Didn't Leave Nobody but the Baby," a gospel lullaby that sounds like a chorus of Appalachian angels. "--Don McLeese"