AboutNonsense day in 1959. year, a field cameraman named Alan Lomax sat on the road and watched Mississippi chain-gang-band records. One of the prisoners, James Carter, led the choir of his prisoners in Bluesy’s work song as they swung axes. Lomax recorded men before they continued on the way. The song slid the chains, lived and wandered for free. Changers on the road, God helps them, he remained put.
Carter’s primitive prison work song, “by Lazarus,” eventually repeated About Brother, where are you?, Joel and Ethan Coen’s FreeWheeling Comedy on Trio by drugs in Dixieland depression. You can hear how it is played over the introductory scene, just before George Clooney’s overrun, Wiley Ulysses Evertt McGill Cuts over the corn fields to the railway to escape. Everett convinced his Sideke (played John Turturro and Team Blake Nelson) To join him in search of a buried treasure, but the man is a Lucker who lies as natural as they breathe, so his slightly change his bodals of gold.
Times and dates of heavier blur in rural, out of mississippi network and is so too much About Brother, where are you?having legs, arms and fingers in several different decades. The film is rendered again this week in which he is mentioned in his 25. anniversary. But the story was set in 1937. and contains the repertoire of the songs moving from Harry McClintock from 1928. “Great rock candy mountain” to the sharp covers with the late 1990s. How Everett drives his friends over Delta, Tangling with sheriffs and clansmen and corrupt politicians, this music descends and swollen in famous sympathy. “By Lazarus” is an overture, early signpost, indicates the way to the spread of slaves for Bluegrass and the Gospel that extend to final loans. Soundtrack provides the soul of the film and its connective tissue. Later, it would be shown that his damage was buried mild.
About Brother, where are you? is adapted – very loose – of Odysseyplayfully lifts his title from a pompous outstanding film in Preston Sturges Sullivan’s Travels (1941) and bounce, br’er rabbit style, through cartoons in the south and the road “full of peril”. The film takes its leadership from the Energy Performance of Clooney in the fact that the thrower, charming and possibly shade is too satisfied. It’s not my favorite picture of coen brothers (it’s a three-way relationship between No country for old, Veliki Lebowski and Inside Llewyn Davis) But it is ungrateful fun and more savage satirical than first appears, like Looney Tunes Tounes from American John. Characters can be excessive, reverse on grotesque, but there is usually inspiration in the inspiration in the real world. The successful bluesman who claims that he sold his soul the devil is obviously for Robert Durning wrong, the Governor of the pork barrel based on the right life, which sang the ridge-westerner and once stole the young Lyndon Johnson’s elections.
If O brother It contains nothing so bluntly as a message, it is that good music supports and redeems those who play – even when these people are a band for crumpling the convicts they were called guys for crumb. In case O brotherHe lasts even longer than a good film, because while Koedy Coens remains loved by his fans (not the least former, former American Senator Mitt Romney, who in cultural terms treaded his favorite film), in cultural terms, built him in his Merch. Joins Saturday night fever and More difficult to come At the elite list of emergency movies that winding playing another puzzle in their sound albums.
At some level, perhaps, this was all previously. Koeni only had a title and vague story when they hired the manufacturers of T-Bonet Burnett to help fill the voids to fill the blanks. Burnett in return made a list of American folk songs that would serve as a guide when Koeni wrote their script. So so O brother Soundtrack existed before the film even did. He wore an assistant hat during the writing and production process, then returned to the end to request his share from the loot. After the initial fanfare from the film excursion, Burnett’s compilation 18 followed almost one-time initiate the folk revival of the wound. Almost 9 million copies in the United States for sale and was helped to increase the career Alison Krauss and Gillian Welch. At the 2002 Gramma – where Soundtrack won the album of the Year Award – 74-year Ralph Stanley replayed his version of Capella “About Death” from the film.
Many of the older musicians are presented in About Brother, where are you? He passed by the time the Soundtrack album was out. But the manufacturers could eventually find the low James Carter, who was then in the middle of the seventies and a living peaceful life in Chicago. They presented him a plane ticket for the Grammys Plus a number of $ 20,000, and they were both surprised by the Carter that he was alleged to go out to cheat a nervous cigarette. Carter believed that the given chain gangs Mississippi put behind him. He said he had only faded, faded the memory of the singing “by Lazarus”. If a man saw a movie, he might have had a perfect sense. The power of the swamps of the guys “Man of constant grief” becomes an escape hit; Even “Pappy” O’Daniel claims that he is a big fan. Good music survives and finds fresh generations of fans, and they released the songs of the circle to save men who used to sleep.