A triple Grammy-winning report that ranks among the many greatest soundtrack discs of all time reached No. 1 in America on March 23, 2002. The O Brother, The place Artwork Thou? album, produced by T-Bone Burnett, was a heady mixture of bluegrass, nation, gospel, blues, and people music that accompanied, and really undoubtedly enhanced, Joel and Ethan Coen’s film of the identical title. The exceptional chart achievement adopted its wonderful Grammy evening of February 27.
From the very begin, the soundtrack was conceived as integral to the movie, and it was because of this that it was recorded earlier than filming started. Burnett’s concepts are designed to tell the filming and to present form to the cinematography, and it really works splendidly.
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Whereas nearly all of the soundtrack consists of latest recordings, there are a couple of classic tracks, together with Harry McClintock’s 78 rpm of 1928, “Big Rock Candy Mountain.” Ralph Stanley, one of many two Stanley Brothers who’re bluegrass icons, recorded an a cappella model of the usual, “O Death.”
One of many standout songs on the report, and the best-known, is “I Am A Man Of Constant Sorrow,” written by the partially blind fiddle participant, Dick Burnett. On the soundtrack, John Hartford covers it, whereas the Soggy Backside Boys do one other model. Different standouts embrace “I’ll Fly Away” by Alison Krauss and Gillian Welch, Chris Thomas King’s tremendous model of Skip James’s “Hard Time Killing Floor” and the Soggy Backside Boys’ revival of Blind Blake and Jimmie Rodgers’ “In The Jailhouse Now.”
The album’s success was helped by the Soggy Backside Boys’ model of “I am A Man of Constant Sorrow,” which made No. 35 on the Scorching 100. However simply who’re the Soggy Backside Boys? They’re really the group shaped by the principal characters within the film, and their title pays homage to the Foggy Mountain Boys, the real-life bluegrass band led by Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs. Within the movie, the actors lip-synch the songs credited to the band, though Tim Blake Nelson does sing his personal vocals on “In the Jailhouse Now.” The true musicians are Dan Tyminski, from Krauss’ Union Station (guitar and lead vocals), Harley Allen, and Pat Enright.
After the movie’s success, the fictional band turned so standard that most of the musicians who’re featured within the movie — together with Ralph Stanley, John Hartford, Alison Krauss, Emmylou Harris, Gillian Welch, and Chris Sharp — received collectively and carried out the music from the movie in a Down From The Mountain live performance tour.
The O Brother, The place Artwork Thou? soundtrack may be purchased right here.
