• Record Label: Mercury
  • Release Date: Dec 5, 2000
User Score
8.4

Universal acclaim- based on 13 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 11 out of 13
  2. Negative: 1 out of 13

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  1. BobM
    Apr 7, 2005
    10
    If you don't like folk, bluegrass and gospel then why listen to this album and afterwards rate it a low score? If you like this kind of stuff, it's a great album, period.
  2. PantelisD.
    Sep 2, 2002
    5
    Lovely music, but we are in the 21st century, man... And still too young to die...
  3. MargaretH
    Feb 27, 2004
    2
    dull. repeated. get cold mountain instead.
  4. SethS
    Apr 20, 2005
    9
    An amazing compilation of talent that holds true to what it is...the root of all contemporary music, even rock and roll.
  5. Jon-MichaelW
    Apr 5, 2004
    10
    Definenately a depression era music history. I cant get enough of that southern gospel!!
  6. SjorsK
    Jun 21, 2005
    9
    I don't listen to this kind of music, but after seeing the movie I checked out this album. It's great. It's gonna be my traveling mate in my long summer drives in central France. Very warm, amusing, laid back and timeless music.
  7. Karambatzos
    Aug 28, 2002
    10
    The ideal soundtrack for a post-civil war era! Truly spectacular...
Metascore
83

Universal acclaim - based on 6 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6 out of 6
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 6
  3. Negative: 0 out of 6
  1. As an album, easily stands on its own.
  2. What a refreshing rarity this is: movie music that's vital to the story being told, yet proudly standing on its own, with no trace of SoundScan calculation in its choices.
  3. The Coen brothers, together with producer T Bone Burnett, have assembled a collection of folk, bluegrass, gospel and hobo country so true to the music's down-home, egalitarian roots that it's hard to distinguish the old tracks from the new and the folk heroes from screen actors.