Customer Reviews:

Avg. Customer Rating: 4.7 / 5.0

Another Coen Brothers Masterpiece:

The music from this masterwork of the Coen Brother's imagination is eye-opening to say the least. I find it difficult to separate the movie from the music, so in this review I review both.

Only the Coen Brothers, the team behind hits like The Big Lebowski and Fargo and masters of quirky and ultra-stylish genre subversion, would parody the plot line of Homer's Odyssey. The movie takes place in 1930s Mississippi. After the trio escapes from a work-farm, George Clooney, talks his chain-gang buddies John... more info

"O Brother, Where Art Thou?":

WOW! What a thrill to write a review about my favorite movie, "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" This film playfully and respectfully salutes an era from long ago, the 1930's.......in the Gulf region of Mississippi..... loosely based on Homer's "Odessey", OBWAT is full of adventure, mystery and laughs, but the very best part of the movie is the music! Tastefully produced by T-Bone Burnett, classic hobo tunes like "The Big Rock Candy Mtn", "Keep on the Sunny Side" are beautifully captured by some of the best roots... more info

Music the way is should be:

This is perhaps the best soundtrack ever made. It is a stunning mix of mostly acoustic tracks by most of the best bluegrass artists ever. There is work on here from Ralph Stanely, Allison Kraus, and Emmelou Harris, to name a few. This CD won a lot of Grammys the year that it came out, and that is because it was the best CD of that year.

Highlights include the Big Rock Candy Mountains, Man of Constant Sorrow, In the Jailhouse Now and O Death. If you have ever wondered what bluegrass sounded like but have... more info

Tracks:

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

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