There Are Stars in the Southern Sky Oh Brother Where Art Thou

2000 soundtrack album by diverse artists

O Brother, Where Fine art Thou?
Soundtrack album by various artists
Released	December five, 2000 (2000-12-05)
Recorded	(modern tracks) Spring 1999
Studio	Sound Emporium, Nashville
Genre	Country folk bluegrass blues gospel Americana soundtrack
Length	61:24
Label	Lost Highway/Mercury
Producer	T Os Burnett

O Brother, Where Art Thou? is the soundtrack album of music from the 2000 American moving-picture show of the same proper noun, written, directed and produced by the Coen Brothers and starring George Clooney, John Turturro, Tim Blake Nelson, and John Goodman.

The film is prepare in Mississippi during the Slap-up Low. 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's 1928 unmarried "Large Stone Processed Mountain"), most 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'south O Brother sessions."^[1]

Development and sound [edit]

The soundtrack was conceived equally a major component of the film, not merely as a background or support. For this reason it was decided to record the soundtrack before filming.^[2] T-Bone Burnett and Alan Larman were invited to blueprint collections of music.^[3]

Dirges and other macabre songs recurring in Appalachian music,^[iv] such every bit "O Death", "Lonesome Valley", "Angel Band", and "I Am Weary", appear in the film as a dissimilarity to the bright, cheerful songs like "Keep On the Sunnyside" and "In the Highways". Ralph Stanley of The Stanley Brothers personally recorded the a cappella folk song "O Death".^{[five] [vi]}

"I Am a Man of Constant Sorrow" has five variations: two are used in the picture, one in the music video, and two in the album. Ii of the variations characteristic the verses being sung back-to-back, and the other three variations characteristic additional music between each verse.^[7] The voices of the Soggy Lesser Boys were provided by Dan Tyminski (pb vocal on "I Am a Man of Constant Sorrow"), Nashville songwriter Harley Allen, and the Nashville Bluegrass Band's Pat Enright.^[8]

Reception and legacy [edit]

Professional ratings

Amass scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	83/100[9]
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[x]
The Austin Chronicle	[eleven]
Entertainment Weekly	B+[12]
Pitchfork	viii.3/10[13]
Q	[fourteen]
Rolling Stone	[15]
The Rolling Rock Album Guide	[xvi]
Uncut	[17]

O Blood brother, Where Art One thousand? won the Grammy Award for Anthology of the Year in 2002, the Grammy Award for Best Country Collaboration with Vocals (for vocalist Dan Tyminski, whose vocalization overdubbed George Clooney's in the film on "I Am a Man of Constant Sorrow", Nashville songwriter Harley Allen, and the Nashville Bluegrass Band's Pat Enright), and the Grammy Accolade for Best Male Land Song Performance for "O, Death" by Ralph Stanley.

The album won the Album of the Twelvemonth Accolade (only the 2nd soundtrack to always do so) and Unmarried of the Year Laurels for "I Am a Homo of Constant Sorrow" at the Country Music Clan Awards.^[18] It also won the Anthology of the Twelvemonth Award at the 37th University of Country Music Awards and took home two International Bluegrass Music Awards: Album of the Year and Gospel Recorded Performance of the Year (for Alison Krauss and Gillian Welch on "I'll Fly Away").^[19]

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's All-time Albums of the Decade" listing.^[20] Engine 145 Land Music Blog ranked it No. 5 on the "State'southward Best Albums of the Decade" list.^[21] In 2010, All Songs Considered, a program on NPR, included the soundtrack album on their list of "The Decade'due south 50 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 2 of which were previously unreleased songs from Burnett's original sessions.^{[23] [24]}

Commercial operation [edit]

The album 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 Golden 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]

Rail list [edit]

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Creative person	Length
1.	"Po' Lazarus"	traditional	James Carter and the Prisoners	4:31
ii.	"Big Rock Processed Mountain"	Harry McClintock	Harry McClintock	two:sixteen
3.	"Yous Are My Sunshine"	Jimmie Davis, Charles Mitchell	Norman Blake	4:26
4.	"Down 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 Bottom Boys	three:10
vi.	"Hard Time Killing Floor Blues"	Skip James	Chris Thomas King	2:42
7.	"I Am a Man of Constant Sorrow" (instrumental)	Burnett	Norman Blake	four:28
8.	"Keep On the Sunny Side"	Ada Blenkhorn, J. Howard Entwisle	The Whites	3:33
ix.	"I'll Fly Away"	Albert E. Brumley	Alison Krauss, Gillian Welch	3:57
ten.	"Didn't Leave Nobody but the Baby"	traditional	Emmylou Harris, Alison Krauss, Gillian Welch	1:57
11.	"In the Highways"	Maybelle Carter	The Peasall Sisters	1:35
12.	"I Am Weary (Permit Me Rest)"	Pete Roberts (Pete Kuykendall)	The Cox Family unit	3:13
13.	"I Am a Man of Constant Sorrow" (instrumental)	Ed Haley	John Hartford	ii:34
14.	"O Death"	Lloyd Chandler	Ralph Stanley	3:nineteen
15.	"In the Jailhouse At present"	Blind Blake, Jimmie Rodgers	The Soggy Bottom Boys	3:34
sixteen.	"I Am a Human being of Constant Sorrow" (with ring)	Burnett	The Soggy Bottom Boys	4:sixteen
17.	"Indian War Whoop" (instrumental)	Hoyt Ming	John Hartford	1:thirty
18.	"Lonesome Valley"	traditional	The Fairfield Four	4:07
xix.	"Angel Band"	traditional	The Stanley Brothers	2:xv
Total length:				60:18

10th Anniversary Deluxe Edition bonus disc

No.	Championship	Creative person	Length
1.	"Hard Fourth dimension Killing Floor Dejection"	Colin Linden	ane:15
ii.	"Y'all Are My Sunshine"	Alan O'Bryant	3:29
3.	"Tishomingo Blues"	John Hartford	2:01
4.	"I'll Fly Away"	The Kossoy Sisters with Erik Darling	two:32
5.	"Big Rock Candy Mount"	Van Dyke Parks	1:42
6.	"Tom Devil"	Ed Lewis & The Prisoners	5:19
vii.	"Keep On The Sunny Side"	The Cox Family unit	two:36
eight.	"Angel Band"	Hannah, Leah, Sarah Peasall and Robert Hamlett	0:58
nine.	"Big Rock Processed Mount"	Norman Blake	two:18
10.	"Niggling Sadie"	Norman Blake	one:50
11.	"In the Highways"	The Cox Family	2:12
12.	"Hogfoot"	John Hartford	3:47
13.	"The Lord Volition Make A Fashion"	The Fairfield Four	2:36
14.	"In The Jailhouse Now"	Harley Allen	three:05
Total length:			35:forty

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 – Mandolin Emmylou Harris – Performer John Hartford – Dabble, vocals The Fairfield 4 – 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 – Dabble Pat Enright – Vocals, harmony vocals, yodeling Isaac Freeman – Bass, vocals, lead

James Hill – 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 Thousand. Oermann – Liner notes Sam Phillips – Vocals Gillian Welch – Arranger, vocals Dub Cornett – Vocals Chris Thomas Male monarch – Guitar, vocals David Rawlings – Vocals Gavin Lurssen – Mastering Mike Piersante – Mixing Peter Kurland – Location recording Commencement Baptist Church of Norfolk Choir – Vocals Chris Sharp – Guitar Nathaniel Best – Lead 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 fill-in vocals James Carter and The Prisoners – Performers Alan Larman – Musicologist

Nautical chart performance [edit]

Weekly charts [edit] Chart (2000–2002) Tiptop position Australian Albums (ARIA)[27] 15 Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria)[28] 70 Canadian Albums (Billboard)[29] 3 French Albums (SNEP)[30] 9 German Albums (Offizielle Top 100)[31] 87 New Zealand Albums (RMNZ)[32] 14 US Billboard 200[33] 1 The states Top State Albums (Billboard)[34] one US Soundtrack Albums (Billboard)[35] i

Year-cease charts [edit] Twelvemonth-end chart functioning for O Brother, Where Art Thou? Chart (2001) Position Canadian Albums (Nilsen Soundscan) [36] 31 Canadian Country Albums (Nielsen Soundscan)[37] 2 Us Billboard 200[38] 23 Usa Top Country Albums (Billboard)[39] ii The states Soundtrack Albums (Billboard)[40] 1 Nautical chart (2002) Position Canadian Albums (Nielsen Soundscan)[41] 19 Canadian Country Albums (Nielsen Soundscan)[42] three U.s.a. Billboard 200[43] half-dozen US Top Land Albums (Billboard)[44] 1 U.s. Soundtrack Albums (Billboard)[45] 1 Chart (2003) Position U.s. Soundtrack Albums (Billboard)[46] 11 Chart (2004) Position US Soundtrack Albums (Billboard)[47] fourteen Nautical chart (2013) Position US Soundtrack Albums (Billboard)[48] 25 Nautical chart (2014) Position US Soundtrack Albums (Billboard)[49] 24 Chart (2015) Position US Soundtrack Albums (Billboard)[l] 22 Chart (2016) Position US Soundtrack Albums (Billboard)[51] 21 Chart (2017) Position US Soundtrack Albums (Billboard)[52] 25

Certifications [edit]

Run into also [edit]

• Down from the Mount

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External links [edit]

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

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