Editorial Reviews

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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 McLeese

Track Listing

1. Po Lazarus - J. Carter & Prisoners
2. Big Rock Candy Mountain - Harry McLintock
3. You Are My Sunshine - Norman Blake
4. Down In The River To Pray - Alison Krauss
5. I Am A Man Of Constant Sorrow - The Soggy Bottom Boys featuring Dan Tyminski
6. Hard Time Killing Floor Blues - Chris Thomas King
7. Man Of Constant Sorrow (Instrumental) - Norman Blake
8. Keep On The Sunny Side - The Whites
9. I'll Fly Away - Gillian Welch & Alison Krauss
10. Didn't Leave Nobody But The Baby - Gillian Welch, Alison Krauss & Emmylou Harris
11. In The Highways - The Peasall Sisters
12. I Am Weary - The Cox Family
13. I Am A Man Of Constant Sorrow (Instrumental) - John Hartford
14. O Death - Ralph Stanley
15. In The Jailhouse Now - The Soggy Bottom Boys featuring Tim Blake Nelson
16. I Am A Man Of Constant Sorrow (With band) - The Soggy Bottom Boys featuring Dan Tyminski
17. Indian War Whoop (Instrumental) - John Hartford
18. Lonesome Valley - The Fairfield Four
19. Angel Band - The Stanley Brothers
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O BROTHER, WHERE ART THOU? I-TUNES

The Soggy Bottom Boys - O Brother, Where Art Thou?- - I Am a Man of Constant Sorrow (USA) The Soggy Bottom Boys - O Brother, Where Art Thou? - I Am a Man of Constant Sorrow

Alison Krauss - O Brother, Where Art Thou? - Down to the River to Pray (USA) Alison Krauss - O Brother, Where Art Thou? - Down to the River to Pray

Alison Krauss & Gillian Welch - O Brother, Where Art Thou? - I'll Fly Away (USA) Alison Krauss & Gillian Welch - O Brother, Where Art Thou? - I'll Fly Away

Ralph Stanley - O Brother, Where Art Thou? - O Death (USA) Ralph Stanley - O Brother, Where Art Thou? - O Death

Alison Krauss, Emmylou Harris & Gillian Welch - O Brother, Where Art Thou? - Didn't Leave Nobody but the Baby (USA) Alison Krauss, Emmylou Harris & Gillian Welch - O Brother, Where Art Thou? - Didn't Leave Nobody but the Baby

The Soggy Bottom Boys - O Brother, Where Art Thou? - In the Jailhouse Now (USA) The Soggy Bottom Boys - O Brother, Where Art Thou? - In the Jailhouse Now

Norman Blake - O Brother, Where Art Thou? - You Are My Sunshine (USA) Norman Blake - O Brother, Where Art Thou? - You Are My Sunshine

Chris Thomas King - O Brother, Where Art Thou? - Hard Time Killing Floor Blues (USA) Chris Thomas King - O Brother, Where Art Thou? - Hard Time Killing Floor Blues

The Stanley Brothers - O Brother, Where Art Thou? - Angel Band (USA) The Stanley Brothers - O Brother, Where Art Thou? - Angel Band

The Whites - O Brother, Where Art Thou? - Keep On the Sunny Side (USA) The Whites - O Brother, Where Art Thou? - Keep On the Sunny Side

The Cox Family - O Brother, Where Art Thou? - I Am Weary (Let Me Rest) (USA) The Cox Family - O Brother, Where Art Thou? - I Am Weary (Let Me Rest)

Norman Blake - O Brother, Where Art Thou? - I Am a Man of Constant Sorrow (USA) Norman Blake - O Brother, Where Art Thou? - I Am a Man of Constant Sorrow

Fairfield Four - O Brother, Where Art Thou? - Lonesome Valley (USA) Fairfield Four - O Brother, Where Art Thou? - Lonesome Valley

The Peasall Sisters - O Brother, Where Art Thou? - In the Highways (USA) The Peasall Sisters - O Brother, Where Art Thou? - In the Highways

John Hartford - O Brother, Where Art Thou? - I Am a Man of Constant Sorrow (USA) John Hartford - O Brother, Where Art Thou? - I Am a Man of Constant Sorrow

John Hartford - O Brother, Where Art Thou? - Indian War Whoop (USA) John Hartford - O Brother, Where Art Thou? - Indian War Whoop

James Carter - The Alan Lomax Collection: Southern Journey, Vol. 5 - Bad Man Ballads - Po' Lazarus (USA) James Carter - The Alan Lomax Collection: Southern Journey, Vol. 5 - Bad Man Ballads - Po' Lazarus

O Brother, Where Art Thou Soundtrack Tribute Band - An Acoustic Tribute to O Brother, Where Art Thou? - Big Rock Candy Mountain (USA) O Brother, Where Art Thou Soundtrack Tribute Band - An Acoustic Tribute to O Brother, Where Art Thou? - Big Rock Candy Mountain

O Brother, Where Art Thou?-Movie (USA) O Brother, Where Art Thou?