Various Artists - O Brother, Where Art Thou? [Soundtrack]

The Coen brothers, fashioned their film O Brother, Where Art Thou? as a contemporary adaption of Homer's Odyssey, centering around a group of American chain-gang prisoners. The film's earthy Southern setting makes it a natural for a bluegrass-oriented soundtrack, for which producer T-Bone Burnett picked the cream of the country crop.

Didn't Leave Nobody But the Baby, for example, is a summit meeting of some of the finest contemporary female country vocalists (Gillian Welch, Emmylou Harris, and Alison Krauss). The old school isn't forgotten either, as evidenced by a chilling a cappella rendering of O Death, courtesy of Ralph Stanley.

O Brother, Where Art Thou? won the 2002 Grammy Awards for Album Of The Year and for Best Compilation Soundtrack Album For A Motion Picture. O Death won the 2002 Grammy Award for Best Male Country Vocal Performance. I Am A Man Of Constant Sorrow won the 2002 Grammy Award for Best Country Collaboration With Vocals.

• Po' Lazarus - James Carter And The Prisoners 
• Big Rock Candy Mountain - Harry McClintock 
• You Are My Sunshine - Norman Blake 
• Down to the River to Pray - Alison Krauss 
• Man of Constant Sorrow - Soggy Bottom Boys, Dan Tyminski 
• Hard Time Killing Floor Blues - Chris Thomas King 
• Man of Constant Sorrow [Instrumental] - Norman Blake 
• Keep on the Sunny Side - The Whites 
• I'll Fly Away - Alison Krauss, Gillian Welch 
• Didn't Leave Nobody But the Baby - Emmylou Harris, Alison Krauss, Gillian Welch 
• In the Highways - The Peasall Sisters, Hannah Peasall, Leah Peasall, Sarah Peasall 
• I Am Weary, Let Me Rest - The Cox Family 
• Man of Constant Sorrow [Instrumental] - John Hartford 
• O Death - Ralph Stanley 
• In the Jailhouse Now - Tim Blake Nelson, Soggy Bottom Boys 
• Man of Constant Sorrow [Band Version][Take] - Soggy Bottom Boys, Dan Tyminski 
• Indian War Whoop [Instrumental] - John Hartford 
• Lonesome Valley - The Fairfield Four 
• Angel Band - The Stanley Brothers