All vikisO Brother, Where Art Thou? Soundtrack
Release details: Music Row
The O Brother, Where Art Thou? soundtrack (2000) in full, all 19 tracks from Po Lazarus to Angel Band, 1 hour, each playing from its first second, under two measured highlights. Certified 8 times Platinum, it won the Grammy for Album of the Year and reached No. 1 in its 63rd week on the chart.
We rate the O Brother, Where Art Thou? soundtrack A tier, and we think it is the most surprising success of the ten song-led albums here: a record of old-time, gospel, blues and bluegrass that took more than a year to reach No. 1 and then won Album of the Year. It is A under our rule because its songs are still staged as a show: the Grand Ole Opry marked the album's 25th anniversary with a concert of it at the Opry House in Nashville on Feb 28, 2026, with Alison Krauss, Emmylou Harris, the Whites, Chris Thomas King, Dan Tyminski and Tim Blake Nelson, all heard on the original album, among the performers (Relix, Feb 3, 2026). Sales keep it from S: 8 times Platinum, the level reached on Oct 10, 2007, is two steps below Diamond (RIAA, read Nov 11, 2026).
This is I Am a Man of Constant Sorrow, credited to the Soggy Bottom Boys. Lost Highway Records marked the 25th anniversary with a vinyl edition on Feb 20, 2026, in black, gold and red (Music Row, Dec 8, 2025). Played straight through, the 19 tracks take 1 hour and 37 seconds.
No. 1 in its 63rd week
It crept onto the Billboard 200 at No. 192 on Jan 13, 2001, near the bottom of the list, and got to No. 1 on the chart dated Mar 23, 2002, its 63rd week on the chart, and was still there a week later. At the Grammys the same year it won Album of the Year and the award for compilation soundtrack, Ralph Stanley's O Death won the male country vocal award, and I Am a Man of Constant Sorrow, sung by Dan Tyminski with Harley Allen and Pat Enright, won the country collaboration award (grammy.com).
One song four times
I Am a Man of Constant Sorrow is on the album four times: the Soggy Bottom Boys' radio edit, two instrumentals, by Norman Blake and by John Hartford, and the Soggy Bottom Boys again with a band. Together they run 14 minutes 30 seconds, nearly a quarter of the album. Po Lazarus by James Carter and the Prisoners opens it and is the longest track at 4:33; John Hartford's Indian War Whoop is the shortest at 1:30.
Highlights
Two climaxes, both measured from the uploads by Vi.ki on Nov 11, 2026 rather than picked by ear (how we measure). The classifier did report banjo, guitar, mandolin and fiddle entries on this mostly acoustic album, but every one was too faint to trust; the two kept moments are where a track's loudest eight seconds stand at least 6 decibels above the rest, Lonesome Valley's by 7.1.
| Track | Play | Title | Highlight |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | Hard Time Killing Floor Blues | The climax | |
| 18 | Lonesome Valley | The climax, the biggest swell of the album |
All tracks
In the album's order. Universal Music Group provided seventeen of the uploads. Its copies of the first two tracks play nowhere now, so those rows use uploads The Orchard Enterprises provided of the same performers' songs on other releases: Po' Lazarus on the channel James Carter - Topic, which YouTube does not list for the United States, and Big Rock Candy Mountain on Harry McClintock - Topic. One video per track, each played from 0:00.
Sources
- Grand Ole Opry to celebrate 25 years of O Brother, Where Art Thou?, Relix, Feb 3, 2026
- Gold and Platinum: O Brother, Where Art Thou?, RIAA, read Nov 11, 2026
- O Brother, Where Art Thou? soundtrack celebrates 25th anniversary, Music Row, Dec 8, 2025
- Billboard 200, Billboard, chart dated Mar 23, 2002
- 44th Annual Grammy Awards, Recording Academy
- O Brother, Where Art Thou? (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack), YouTube Music, read Nov 11, 2026
Moments
I Am A Man Of Constant Sorrow (Radio Edit)
The Soggy Bottom Boys - Topic
Hard Time Killing Floor Blues
Chris Thomas King
Lonesome Valley
The Fairfield Four - Topic
Po' Lazarus
James Carter - Topic
Big Rock Candy Mountain
Harry McClintock - Topic
You Are My Sunshine
Norman Blake
Down To The River To Pray
Alison Krauss
I Am A Man Of Constant Sorrow (Instrumental)
Norman Blake
Keep On The Sunny Side
The Whites - Topic
I'll Fly Away
Gillian Welch
Didn't Leave Nobody But The Baby
EmmyLouharris
In The Highways
The Peasall Sisters - Topic
I Am Weary (Let Me Rest)
The Cox Family
I Am A Man Of Constant Sorrow (Instrumental)
John Hartford - Topic
O Death
Ralph Stanley - Topic
In The Jailhouse Now
The Soggy Bottom Boys - Topic
I Am A Man Of Constant Sorrow (With Band)
The Soggy Bottom Boys - Topic
Indian War Whoop
John Hartford - Topic
Angel Band
The Stanley Brothers - Topic
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