'O Brother, Where Art Thou?' Original Soundtrack 2LP

'O Brother, Where Art Thou?' Original Soundtrack 2LP

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Format: 2LP

Label: Lost Highway/Universal

Released: 2003

Country: EU

Those kings of cinematic quirkiness, the Coen brothers, fashioned their film O BROTHER, WHERE ART THOU? as a contemporary adaption of Homer's Odyssey, centering around a group of American chain-gang prisoners. The film's earthy Southern setting makes it a natural for a bluegrass-oriented soundtrack, for which producer T-Bone Burnett picked the cream of the country crop.

"Didn't Leave Nobody But the Baby," for example, is a summit meeting of some of the finest contemporary female country vocalists (Gillian Welch, Emmylou Harris, and Alison Krauss). The old school isn't forgotten either, as evidenced by a chilling a cappella rendering of "O Death," courtesy of Ralph Stanley, and by the closing cut, where the Stanley Brothers issue an elegant plea to heaven with "Angel Band."

Tracklisting

  1. James Carter & The Prisoners ‘Po Lazarus’
  2. Harry McClintock ‘Big Rock Candy Mountain’
  3. Norman Blake ‘You Are My Sunshine’
  4. Alison Krauss ‘Down To The River To Pray’
  5. The Soggy Bottom Boys ‘I Am A Man Of Constant Sorrow’
  6. Chris Thomas King ‘Hard Time Killing Floor Blues’
  7. Norman Blake ‘I Am A Man Of Constant Sorrow’
  8. The Whites ‘Keep On The Sunny Side’
  9. Alison Krauss And Gillian Welch ‘I'll Fly Away’
  10. Emmylou Harris, Alison Krauss And Gillian Welch ‘Didn't Leave Nobody But The Baby’
  11. Sarah, Hannah & Leah Peasall ‘In The Highways’
  12. The Cox Family ‘I Am Weary (Let Me Rest)’
  13. John Hartford ‘I Am A Man Of Constant Sorrow’
  14. Ralph Stanley ‘O Death’
  15. The Soggy Bottom Boys ‘In The Jailhouse Now’
  16. The Soggy Bottom Boys ‘I Am A Man Of Constant Sorrow’
  17. John Hartford ‘Indian War Whoop’
  18. Fairfield Four ‘Lonesome Valley’
  19. The Stanley Brothers ‘Angel Band’
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