  "If you have any affection at all for traditional American music, the movie is pretty close to heaven.”
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When the time came for the Coen Brothers to find the music for their Southern period piece comedy, O Brother, Where Art Thou?, they asked record producer T Bone Burnett to lend a hand. They wanted original recordings of old-timey American roots folk music. What they came up with was a sprawling mix of authentic bluegrass musicians and contemporary alternative country stars that resulted in a surprisingly successful soundtrack album. Featured on the soundtrack are Emmylou Harris, Alison Krauss, Gillian Welch, John Hartford, Ralph Stanley, David Rawlings, and Chris Thomas King, among others. |
In May of 2000, plans were made for the artists on the soundtrack to gather and perform the music from the film at a special concert at Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium. T Bone Burnett enlisted producer Bob Neuwirth to assemble a team of all star filmmakers. The resulting Down From The Mountain documents the evening’s concert, complete with backstage preparations and rehearsals. Co-produced by Frazer Pennebaker, the film by D A Pennebaker, Chris Hegedus and Nick Doob captures a joyous and free-spirited celebration of a truly American musical form. John Hartford died just about a year after this album was recorded, at the age of 63. He was in his prime. John was a living library of old fiddle tunes and river songs, mountain music and lore about the people who played it. Some of it is gone with him; this film is part of the enormous share that he left behind - on records, and with the people who knew him. --Joel Cohen, Ethan Cohen, and T Bone Burnett
By Nick Doob, Chris Hegedus and D A Pennebaker View Movie Clip
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