How O Brother, Where Art Thou? got inspired – then upstaged – by its own soundtrack

One autumn day in 1959, a field recordist named Alan Lomax sat at the roadside and watched a Mississippi chain-gang chop logs ...
Rolling Stone

‘O Brother, Where Art Thou?’ at 20: How the Soundtrack Reinforced a Roots Music Myth

It sold more than eight million copies and won the Grammy for Album of the Year, but the collection of old-timey music mistakenly equated primitive sounds with authenticity But the O Brother ...
American Songwriter

On This Day in 2002: The ‘O Brother, Where Art Thou?’ Soundtrack Makes Bluegrass Cool Again

Remember O Brother, Where Art Thou? This 2000 Cohen Brothers classic was quite a big deal back at the turn of the millennium. It’s still a very well-loved satirical musical today. George Clooney and a ...