O Brother, Where Art Thou?
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Free Music Notes for O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Free Music Review: Decent all around collection of music
Hit: 5 Stars
Though I admit I'm not really a big fan of country/bluegrass/old-time spiritual music, there's just something about this album that I really enjoy and gets me in a happy mood whenever I listen to it. Now I will admit that some songs are quite boring and get tiresome very quickly, but a few songs not only give this album its well-deserved 5-star rating but also makes it whole-heartedly worth buying. You Are My Sunshine, I Am a Man of Constant Sorrow, I Am Weary (Let Me Rest), In the Jailhouse Now, and especially Angel Band are the best songs on this whole collection and give it its down-home feel-good country feel to it. If you are even a slight fan of this kind of old-time music you should definitely give it a shot or even if you're just like me and you want to know what all the fuss is about and why in the world it won the best album Grammy (which by the way was well-deserved considering the lackluster competition it was up against), then I dare you to pick this one up and listen to it thoroughly all the way through. Sure the above mentioned songs make it worthy in every sense of the word, but the other songs aren't really slouches either and strengthen the album as a whole. This is one collection of music that everyone should definitely own. All I have left to say is to just buy this album and prepare to be blown away.Free Music Review: The Music In This Film Completely Altered My CD Colection
Hit: 5 Stars
My CD collection, pre-O Brother, consisted of the likes of U2, REM, Smashing Pumpkins, Rage Against The Machine and other mainstream acts. The result of my watching this film was, apart from buying the soundtrack, purchasing Emmylou Harris' 'Red Dirt Girl', Allison Kraus + Union Station's 'New Favourite', Gillian Welch's 'Time The Revelator' and The Best Of Leadbelly. All this does is confirm exactly what everyone says about this soundtrack, it changes you. It makes you realise that the music you currently listen to - as artistic and forward thinking as it may be - can never be as powerful as strong lyrics sung with the right voice and/or harmonies. Indeed, the majority of these tracks have only 1 instrument in the background (if any at all).
Have you ever seen a gospel choir and thought 'I wish I could get hold of collection of that music'? You can see how much they love what they are doing and its contagious. This compilation is just that type of album. You feel priveleged, even special when you listen to it. It makes you smile and it makes you wish that you could reproduce it. You could probably reproduce the music, but I bet that the thought of feeling a part of this music would render any average person unable to create the vocals - they would be grinning far too much to sing.
Free Music Review: A time when music played more of a role in peoples' lives
Hit: 5 Stars
The music of this soundtrack helps us to remember that there was a time when music played more of a role in peoples' lives. People relied on themselves for their own entertainment and, by so doing, experienced an enjoyment unkown to many in today's America. In the movie, notice the many scenes where common folk expressed themselves musically, such as the chain gang working on the railroad, the church congregation at the river, and the the political rally at the town square. Music was everywhere!Today, we rent out our entertainment to others. We have abdicated our own personal musical experiences to the numerous media-entertainment outlets that churn out electronically created sounds. We are missing out on many wonderful experiences.
My mother remembers her family going to sing-a-longs in rural Arkansas. Everyone would have such a good time singing together and enjoying everyone's company. Of course, it was a time when music was easy to sing. Fortunatley, sountracks and CDs such as this awaken a spirit of song that is difficult to resist. I have found myself humming and singing some of the songs on this soundtrack, much to my own personal enjoyment. In particular, "I am a Man of Constant Sorrow" is my favorite! Listen to this soundtrack!
Free Music Review: Changed the Perception of Country Music
Hit: 5 Stars
Until the release of this soundtrack, most peopled gauged country music by the likes of Vince Gill, Clint Black, and all of the other modern country music deconstructionists. These guys ain't country! In terms of bluegrass, non-country folk typically eschew it as "hokey." Then this movie and soundtrack came out.This is a wonderful collection of traditional bluegrass/early country music put together to introduce the non-bluegrass traditionalist to come and discover the wonderful sound of appalachia. Some of country/bluegrass music's best-known traditionalists are assembled on this album: Ralph Stanley, Gillian Welch, Alison Krauss, and Emmylou Harris.
I highly recommend this to get a taste of music you may be discovering for the first time. And no, the music on this CD does not sound like the horrid "country music" you hear on the radio. If you like this music, from here you may want to look at music CDs from artists that are an extension (or the originals) of this type of music:
* Nancy Griffith - (her music pre-1990; afterwards, she turned modernist and punky)
* Iris DeMent - Infamous Angel CD
* Little Jimmy Dickens
* Patsy Cline
* Flatt & Scruggs
* Bill Monroe
* The Carter Family
Free Music Review: In the great tradition of the South, Pull up a porch.
Hit: 5 Stars
Grab some lemons and some Jack Daniels and make some Lynchburg Lemonade, pull up a swinging chair, and bring back the tradition of everybody gathering in the hot Southern night...crowded around the band, who subtly plays from the steps.I'll tell you -- it is a great movie and a great soundtrack. Grab your phillie and do a little hop...
Back to my normal, cynical, Northeast perspective...Even for a guy that likes techno and every other kind of esoteric piece of music -- you can't get a way from our roots. I am part Irish and I look at it this way...this gives to me the same visions of our musical and social roots, as hearing the Chieftains reminds me of a small, cozy Irish pub that is way too small on space, but still has room enough to fit the band, a dartboard, and a couple of kegs of Guinness. (And no I don't drink that much ;) )
Plus, I can't get George Cloony out of my head, with the boys and their beards in toe, sining I Am A Man of Constant Sorrow. And yes I do know that George didn't sing it and can't sing like his auntie...
So how can you go wrong -- off beat humor, Cloony with an accent from deep Kentucky, Homer and the Odessey, Gulliver, and bluegrass. If you don't like or get this -- you shouldn't vote in Florida. :)