Jambands

The Soggy Bottom Boys: Billy Strings Applies ‘O Brother, Where Art Thou?’ Theme to Halloween Run, Details Baltimore Run

Billy Strings has picked a theme for his forthcoming two-night Halloween celebration at CFG Bank Arena in Baltimore. The artist, who is known for devising well-conceived plans for the holiday ahead, ...

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 ...
Jambands

Watch: Billy Strings Exemplifies Major Musical Components of ‘O Brother, Where Art Thou?’ During Theatrical Halloween Adaptation in Baltimore

On October 31, Billy Strings kicked off his two-night run at the CFG Bank Arena in Baltimore. For the occasion, the bluegrass artist and his crew adapted 2000’s O Brother, Where Art Thou?, opening the ...
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 ...
collider

One of the Coen Brothers’ Best Comedies Was an Accidental Adaptation

Liam Gaughan is a film and TV writer at Collider. He has been writing film reviews and news coverage for ten years. Between relentlessly adding new titles to his watchlist and attending as many ...
OffBeat

O Brother Tyrone, Where Art Thou?

While New Orleans Rhythm and Blues singer Brother Tyrone admits that James Browns his Number One mentor and that Sam Cooke, Al Green, Otis Redding, Bobby Womack and Johnny Taylor have all contributed ...