It has been a decade since one of the most unlikely successes in music history was released.
"O Brother, Where Art Thou"? is one of the 10 top-selling soundtracks of all time, the No. 1-selling soundtrack and the 17th biggest album of the 21st Century, with more than nine million albums sold.
On August 16, the record will celebrate its 10th Anniversary with an expanded two-CD set, "O Brother, Where Art Thou? – Deluxe Edition," with T Bone Burnett again personally involved in all aspects of this release.
Excerpt from press release:
The album that rocketed bluegrass, roots and even Americana music from the 20th Century into the new millennium features a 17-track bonus disc. Thirteen of these newly-released songs were recorded during original sessions for the film, and all except "Cow Road" and "I’ll Fly Away" went unheard on-screen. This release marks the first time these tracks have been made available in any format.
Produced by 12-time GRAMMY® Award- and Academy Award-winner T Bone Burnett, the original O Brother, Where Art Thou? soundtrack from the 2000 film—written, directed and produced by the Coen Brothers and starring George Clooney—shot to No.1 on the Billboard Top 200 and Country charts and became a bona fide music phenomenon, despite scant radio airplay. Along with ALBUM OF THE YEAR honors, the album won GRAMMYs® for "I Am A Man Of Constant Sorrow" performed by Dan Tyminski, Harley Allen and Pat Enright, and "O Death" by the legendary Dr. Ralph Stanley.
The second disc of the O Brother, Where Art Thou? – Deluxe Edition features artists who appeared on the original album (John Hartford, Norman Blake, the Fairfield Four, the Cox Family and the Peasall Sisters) plus some who did not (Colin Linden, Alan O’Bryant, Ed Lewis and Van Dyke Parks). The disc’s previously recorded tracks are a pair from Duke Ellington, "Tom Devil" by Ed Lewis and the Prisoners, and "I’ll Fly Away" by the Kossoy Sisters.
O Brother, Where Art Thou? – Deluxe Edition
TRACK LISTING
Disc One: The Original O’Brother Where Art Thou
1. "Po’ Lazarus" - James Carter and prisoners
2. "Big Rock Candy Mountain" - Harry McClintock
3. "You Are My Sunshine" - Norman Blake
4. "Down To The River To Pray" - Alison Krauss
5. "I Am A Man Of Constant Sorrow" - The Soggy Bottom Boys
6. "Hard Time Killing Floor Blues" - Chris Thomas King
7. "I Am A Man Of Constant Sorrow" - Norman Blake
8. "Keep On The Sunny Side" - The Whites
9. "I’ll Fly Away" - Alison Krauss & Gillian Welch
10. "Didn’t Leave Nobody But The Baby" - Emmylou Harris, Alison Krauss & Gillian Welch
11. "In The Highways" – Sarah, Hannah, and Leah Peasall
12. "I Am Weary, Let Me Rest" - The Cox Family
13. "I Am A Man Of Constant Sorrow" - John Hartford
14. "O Death" - Ralph Stanley
15. "In The Jailhouse Now" – The Soggy Bottom Boys
16. "I Am A Man Of Constant Sorrow" – The Soggy Bottom Boys
17. "Indian War Whoop"- John Hartford
18. "Lonesome Valley" - Fairfield Four
19. "Angel Band" - The Stanley Brothers
Disc Two: Bonus Disc
* Unreleased Tracks
* 1. "Hard Time Killing Floor Blues" - Colin Linden
* 2. "You Are My Sunshine" - Alan O’Bryant
* 3. "Tishamingo County Blues" - John Hartford
4. "Mood Indigo" - Duke Ellington
* 5. "Cow Road" – T Bone Burnett
6. "I’ll Fly Away" – The Kossoy Sisters
* 7. ‘Big Rock Candy Mountain" - Van Dyke Parks
8. "Admiration" - Duke Ellington
9. "Tom Devil" - Ed Lewis and the Prisoners
* 10. "Keep On The Sunny Side" - The Cox Family
* 11. "Angel Band" – Sarah, Hannah, and Leah Peasall
* 12. "Big Rock Candy Mountain" - Norman Blake
* 13. "Little Sadie" - Norman Blake
* 14. "In The Highways" - The Cox Family
* 15. "That Hog’s Foot Further In The Bed" - John Hartford
* 16. "The Lord Will Make A Way" - Fairfield Four
* 17. "In The Jailhouse Now" - Harley Allen
