Latest 6 Reviews Here is what people are saying about the Various Artists - Soundtrack - O Brother, Where Art Thou
"The Songs Will Haunt You in a Good Way"
2009-10-09
- Reviewed By User: A3RQPCSLSF24KP
This is a wonderful soundtrack. Many of the songs focus on death and dying, albeit sweetly and harmoniously.
"The movie was GOOD; this soundtrack is STELLAR"
2009-09-27
- Reviewed By User: A18OUQEK7IZ2F2
I reviewed the movie itself and gave it three and a half stars, but the soundtrack gets all five!
Some people have jokingly wondered if the Coen Brothers simply loved mountain music and found a way to fit a movie around it!
Anyway the CD comes with a really nice booklet, including extensive liner notes placing the music into the historical context of both the Depression-era South as well as that of Homer's Odyssey.
"so unique and different"
2009-05-21
- Reviewed By User: A1DF3NZ1SQ5D4Y
My husband and I both love this CD. It is so unique and different with wonderful harmonies by wonderful voices. I didn't even know that the female voices I was listening to belonged to Allison Krauss and Emily Lou Harris until weeks later.
"oh brother where art thou?"
2009-05-21
- Reviewed By User: A2YKT7BSZOO5IK
the product was exactly what i wanted and was in the condition the seller said it was thanks!
"A Salute To Mountain Music"
2009-04-11
- Reviewed By User: AGEIT17HENDIS
Sometimes a revival of a musical form, like the "talking blues", that highlighted the urban folk revival of the early 1960's is driven by a social need. In that case it was to provide a format for the "glad tidings" that a new political and social movement was a-bornin'. In the case of the revival several years ago of what is called "mountain music" it was the films "The Song Catcher" and, more importantly, the very popular movie starring George Clooney " O Brother, Where Art Thou?' The CD under review is a compilation of music from that movie, a not unnatural tie-in in the modern entertainment business. The movie deserves a separate review, however, this CD can stand on its own as a very nice cross section of "mountain music", some familiar most not so.
Without straining credulity "mountain music" is the music of the simple folk of Appalachia, those who worked hard in the coal mines, on the hard scrabble farms and in the isolated mills of the region. This was their Saturday night entertainment and with the advent of radio was a unifying cultural experience. The songs "speak" of hard and lonely lives, the beauty of the then pristine countryside, the usual vagaries of love and lost and the mysterious ways of a very personal, if arbitrary, god. Throw in a few upbeat tunes reflecting the love of "corn" liquor, women and the sometimes funny side of coping with life's trials and tribulations and you have the mountain version of the folk experience. Sound familiar? Sure it does, except, it is done with simple guitar, a blazing fiddle and, hopefully a full-bodied mandolin.
Here you have all the above types of songs mentioned above in one spot. The cadence of the work in hard prison life gets a nod in "Po Lazarus". The hobo's national anthem (Great Depression era version) "Big Rock Candy Mountain" is also here. The vagaries of love get spelled out in "Didn't Leave Nobody But The Baby". For uplift try the one everyone knows- "You Are My Sunshine". Norman Blake, worthy of a separate review of his own as a master of mountain music, provides a very rich instrumental "A Man Of Constant Sorrow". Finally, no recent compilation of mountain music is complete without Ralph Stanley's eerie "O Death" and "Angel Band". If you need a primer for learning about mountain music here you are.
Great music brings back favorite scenes from the film. Listening to it over and over, though, can become a bit of a drag, due to the number of melancholy melodies. Exceptional artistry, however.
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