DU Album of the Day: "O Brother Where Art Thou" Soundtrack
Produced by the incomparable T-Bone Burnett (Mr. T to you), this soundtrack to the Coen Brothers movie features the hard-scrabble singing and lyrics of American traditional music, transplanted to this country by impoverished immigrants from Europe and the British Isles. Here in the New World, themes such as the hard life of poverty, and the inevitability of death, were leavened by appeals to a sweet afterlife, where there would be peace and comfort and enough for all. New themes arose in the new environment, and trouble with the law became a staple lament as well.
The movie itself, an homage to Homer's Odyssey, is a masterpiece of cinematography, casting, setting and scenery, as the classic tale is itself transplanted from the world of ancient, mythical Greece to the world of modern, Depression-era Mississippi.
1. Po' Lazarus
2. Big Rock Candy Mountain
3. You Are My Sunshine
4. Down to the River to Pray
5. Man of Constant Sorrow (radio station version)
6. Hard Time Killing Floor Blues
7. Man of Constant Sorrow (traditional)
8. Keep on the Sunny Side
9. I'll Fly Away
10. Didn't Leave Nobody but the Baby
11. In the Highways
12. I Am Weary, Let Me Rest
13. Man of Constant Sorrow
14. O Death
15. In the Jailhouse Now
16. Man of Constant Sorrow (with band)
17. Indian War Whoop
18. Lonesome Valley
19. Angel Band
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