O Brother, Where Art Thou? [2 LP][Picture Disc]

by Various Artists

Ranked #9 in Rolling Stone's "Top 10 2001".
3.5 stars out of 5 - "...A collection of folk, bluegrass, gospel and hobo country so true to the music's down-home, egalitarian roots that it's hard to distinguish the old tracks from the new and the folk heroes from screen actors..."
Ranked #9 in Rolling Stone's "Top 10 2001".
3.5 stars out of 5 - "...A collection of folk, bluegrass, gospel and hobo country so true to the music's down-home, egalitarian roots that it's hard to distinguish the old tracks from the new and the folk heroes from screen actors..."
Ranked #56 in EW's "100 Best Movie Soundtracks" - "...An unlikely hillbilly smash making 1930s-style string-band music the 1st trend of the 21st-century..."
Ranked #56 in EW's "100 Best Movie Soundtracks" - "...An unlikely hillbilly smash making 1930s-style string-band music the 1st trend of the 21st-century..."
4 stars out of 5 - "...Mostly traditional spirituals and bluegrass numbers....richly evocative of its time and place, and educational too..."
4 stars out of 5 - "...Mostly traditional spirituals and bluegrass numbers....richly evocative of its time and place, and educational too..."
4 stars out of 5 -- "[With] some superb country-blues fiddling from John Hartford and a couple of breezy, close-harmony stunners from the Cox Family."
"...The rarest of contemporary soundtracks: good (old) music, coherently programmed, and masterfully perfromed....an exceptional album..."
"...The rarest of contemporary soundtracks: good (old) music, coherently programmed, and masterfully perfromed....an exceptional album..."
Included in Mojo's "100 Coolest Movie Soundtracks".
Ranked #3 in Mojo's "Best [10] Box Sets & Compilations of 2001".
Included in Mojo's "100 Coolest Movie Soundtracks".
Ranked #3 in Mojo's "Best [10] Box Sets & Compilations of 2001".
Paste (magazine) - "This old-timey country album and most unlikely hit may have signaled the last gasp of alternative country."