O Brother, Where Art Thou?
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Composer: Various Artists - SoundtrackEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Soundtrack
CD Release Date: 2000-12-05
Music Label: Lost Highway
Soundtracks:
- Po Lazarus - J. Carter & Prisoners
- Big Rock Candy Mountain - Harry McLintock
- You Are My Sunshine - Norman Blake
- Down In The River To Pray - Alison Krauss
- I Am A Man Of Constant Sorrow - The Soggy Bottom Boys featuring Dan Tyminski
- Hard Time Killing Floor Blues - Chris Thomas King
- Man Of Constant Sorrow (Instrumental) - Norman Blake
- Keep On The Sunny Side - The Whites
- I'll Fly Away - Gillian Welch & Alison Krauss
- Didn't Leave Nobody But The Baby - Gillian Welch, Alison Krauss & Emmylou Harris
- In The Highways - The Peasall Sisters
- I Am Weary - The Cox Family
- I Am A Man Of Constant Sorrow (Instrumental) - John Hartford
- O Death - Ralph Stanley
- In The Jailhouse Now - The Soggy Bottom Boys featuring Tim Blake Nelson
- I Am A Man Of Constant Sorrow (With band) - The Soggy Bottom Boys featuring Dan Tyminski
- Indian War Whoop (Instrumental) - John Hartford
- Lonesome Valley - The Fairfield Four
- Angel Band - The Stanley Brothers
Music reviews of O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Music Review: A Salute To Mountain Music
Rating: 5 Stars
Sometimes a revival of a musical form, like the "talking blues", that highlighted the urban folk revival of the early 1960's is driven by a social need. In that case it was to provide a format for the "glad tidings" that a new political and social movement was a-bornin'. In the case of the revival several years ago of what is called "mountain music" it was the films "The Song Catcher" and, more importantly, the very popular movie starring George Clooney " O Brother, Where Art Thou?' The CD under review is a compilation of music from that movie, a not unnatural tie-in in the modern entertainment business. The movie deserves a separate review, however, this CD can stand on its own as a very nice cross section of "mountain music", some familiar most not so.
Without straining credulity "mountain music" is the music of the simple folk of Appalachia, those who worked hard in the coal mines, on the hard scrabble farms and in the isolated mills of the region. This was their Saturday night entertainment and with the advent of radio was a unifying cultural experience. The songs "speak" of hard and lonely lives, the beauty of the then pristine countryside, the usual vagaries of love and lost and the mysterious ways of a very personal, if arbitrary, god. Throw in a few upbeat tunes reflecting the love of "corn" liquor, women and the sometimes funny side of coping with life's trials and tribulations and you have the mountain version of the folk experience. Sound familiar? Sure it does, except, it is done with simple guitar, a blazing fiddle and, hopefully a full-bodied mandolin.
Here you have all the above types of songs mentioned above in one spot. The cadence of the work in hard prison life gets a nod in "Po Lazarus". The hobo's national anthem (Great Depression era version) "Big Rock Candy Mountain" is also here. The vagaries of love get spelled out in "Didn't Leave Nobody But The Baby". For uplift try the one everyone knows- "You Are My Sunshine". Norman Blake, worthy of a separate review of his own as a master of mountain music, provides a very rich instrumental "A Man Of Constant Sorrow". Finally, no recent compilation of mountain music is complete without Ralph Stanley's eerie "O Death" and "Angel Band". If you need a primer for learning about mountain music here you are.
Description of O Brother, Where Art Thou?
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 McLeeseGeneral CDs
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