Before anyone starts whinging that this blog is becoming too movie orientated, or that I'm scraping the barrel by picking movie soundtracks let me just say that this is so much more than collection of songs from a movie. Well of course it is but this one is different. Honest.
With the exception of a couple of songs, the tracks here were specially recorded for the movie; gathering together the great and the good from bluegrass, country, gospel, blues and folk to create an authentic modern period accompaniment to the movie.
So you get a duet between Alison Krauss and Gillian Welch, Dan Tyminski's 'Clooney' singing 'Man of Constant Sorrow', The White, The Cox Family and Emmylou Harris - each song helping to create a depression era atmosphere. You can almost taste the dust blowing off the fields and highway.
So yes it is a soundtrack but it's not your standard 'bung a few rock tracks together and hope for the best' kind of affair.
....but whilst I'm here - it is an absolutely fantastic movie and one that rewards repeated viewing. The Coen Brothers at their best and a contender for best movie ever made. Period. But you already knew that didn't you?
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