O Brother, Where Art Thou? (soundtrack)
Released December 5, 2000
Genre
Country Folk Bluegrass Gospel Americana Soundtrack
Length 61:24
Label Lost Highway/Mercury
Producer T Bone Burnett
O Brother, Where Art Thou? is the soundtrack album of music from the 2000 American film of the same name, written, directed and produced by the Coen Brothers and starring George Clooney, John Turturro, Tim Blake Nelson, and John Goodman.
With the film set in Mississippi during the Great Depression, the soundtrack, produced by T Bone Burnett, uses bluegrass, country, gospel, blues, and folk music appropriate to the time period. With the exception of a few vintage tracks (such as Harry McClintock’s 1928 single “Big Rock Candy 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’s O Brother sessions.”
Track listing
1. “Po’ Lazarus” traditional James Carter and the Prisoners 4:31
2. “Big Rock Candy Mountain” Harry McClintock Harry McClintock 2:16
3. “You 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 Man of Constant Sorrow” (radio station version) Dick Burnett The Soggy Bottom Boys 3:10
6. “Hard Time Killing Floor Blues” Skip James Chris Thomas King 2:42
7. “I Am a Man of Constant Sorrow” (instrumental) Burnett Norman Blake 4:28
8. “Keep On the Sunny Side” Ada Blenkhorn, J. Howard Entwisle The Whites 3:33
9. “I’ll Fly Away” Albert E. Brumley Alison Krauss, Gillian Welch 3:57
10. “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 (Let Me Rest)” Pete Roberts (Pete Kuykendall) The Cox Family 3:13
13. “I Am a Man of Constant Sorrow” (instrumental) Ed Haley John Hartford 2:34
14. “O Death” traditional Ralph Stanley 3:19
15. “In the Jailhouse Now” Blind Blake, Jimmie Rodgers The Soggy Bottom Boys 3:34
16. “I Am a Man of Constant Sorrow” (with band) Burnett The Soggy Bottom Boys 4:16
17. “Indian War Whoop” (instrumental) Hoyt Ming John Hartford 1:30
18. “Lonesome Valley” traditional The Fairfield Four 4:07
19. “Angel Band” traditional The Stanley Brothers 2:15
Total length: 60:18
10th Anniversary Deluxe Edition bonus disc
Personnel
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 – Fiddle, vocals
The Fairfield Four – 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 – Fiddle
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 K. Oermann – Liner notes
Sam Phillips – Vocals
Gillian Welch – Arranger, vocals
Dub Cornett – Vocals
Chris Thomas King – Guitar, vocals
David Rawlings – Vocals
Gavin Lurssen – Mastering
Mike Piersante – Mixing
Peter Kurland – Location recording
First Baptist Church of Norfolk Choir – Vocals
Chris Sharp – Guitar
Nathaniel Best – Lead
Robert Hamlett – Vocals
Joseph Rice – Vocals
The Peasall Sisters
Sarah Peasall – Vocals, harmony vocals
Hannah Peasall – Vocals
Leah Peasall – Vocals, harmony vocals
The Soggy Bottom Boys – Performer
Tim Blake Nelson – Vocals, performer
Porter McClister – Tenor backup vocals
James Carter and The Prisoners – Performers
Sandy Wilbur – Musicologist
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