T Bone Burnett Reflects on 'O Brother Where Art Thou' Soundtrack

Lots of films have soundtracks that exceed the critical success of the movie, however the album for 'O Brother Where Art Thou' would be a entirely unique monster. Not just did the record sell a lot more than eight million copies worldwide, it won the 2001 Grammy Award for Album of the season. Lately, music producer/archivist T Bone Burnett sitting lower with HuffPost Culture to go over his role in picking the background music for that film, the entire process of recording it and, most of all, whether George Clooney includes a good voice. A couple of of Burnett's choice quotes are below. If you're a large 'O Brother' fan (from the film or movie), mind on to HuffPost Culture to see the whole piece. What it really was like focusing on the film 'O Brother, Where Art Thou?' grew to become much greater than a killer gig. It had been a fulfillment of the existence of chasing after lower that old music without ever knowing where it had been leading me. I was making use of an attractive and effective musical stream. What's frequently known as Bluegrass might have been in the center of this stream, but it is a part of a lengthy history which includes everybody from Duke Ellington to Lefty Frizzell, from Billie Holiday to Elvis, and perhaps first and foremost, to Louis Remedy. This stream we investigated may be the remarkable music from the 20th century -- an amazing treasure that involves us from a time when music is made by everybody. It had been analogue. It had been made prior to the rise from the machines. On selecting the movie's top song, 'Man of Constant Sorrow' We recorded the background music prior to the movie. The very first song we needed to get was "Guy Of Constant Sorrow." The song is, obviously, a typical -- you will find most likely fifty versions from it. The version we employed for our template was the version the Stanley Siblings tried with two performers responding to the final type of every verse -- that is, obviously, comedy and peculiar because the tune is all about a tore-lower, blown-out cat with one of these other voices proclaiming towards the veracity of his tragic situation. In some way this song taken a dark tone from the movie--epic and dead serious on one side and comic and affable alternatively. On George Clooney singing 'Man of Constant Sorrow' As numerous people know, Serta Tyminski from Alison Krauss and Union Station sang "Guy Of Constant Sorrow" within an original and soulful way about the soundtrack. He also authored and performed your guitar part that gave the song a brand new existence. But simply for that record, George Clooney is an extremely good singer. We'd already recorded Serta singing the song to locate an arrangement and, at the minimum, give George something to utilize. If there was additional time to obtain George up to date, he might have sang that song themself.