Word: bluegrass
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...Sting" did for ragtime remains to be seen, but at the very least this fascinating collection gives a welcome airing to some of American music's most seminal components, from prison-gang hollers to children's sing-alongs. Although it's dominated by artists mostly associated with bluegrass, the "O Brother" soundtrack covers an era that slightly predates that style, as befits a movie...
...SHELBY LYNNE I Am Shelby Lynne (Island). Is it country? Is it soul? Maybe the words rhythm and bluegrass best capture the revelatory jolt of songs with which Lynne, a Nashville expatriate, bends two great rivers of American music into a pool brimming with fresh ideas...
...scenarios, Joel and Ethan Coen raid noble antiquity: not just Homer's fabulous travelog in verse but Preston Sturges' "Sullivan's Travels" (for the movie's title) and MGM's "The Wizard of Oz" (for a delirious production number starring the Ku Klux Klan). Toss in enough gorgeous bluegrass music to make the movie's CD a must-have, and you have prime, picaresque entertainment. It celebrates the chicanery of the human spirit, the love of raillery and rodomontade. But don't ask us for reasons; we just liked it. As Clooney, who never radiated more star quality, opines...
...Honky Tonk Downstairs' 'Once a Day' 'When Your House Is Not a Home' 'Three's a Crowd' 'Mr. Fool' And it may well have been the Osborne Brothers who brought this song to the attention of George Jones and Melba Montgomery. The Osbornes, more on the country side of bluegrass, used to tour with Jones and Montgomery in the early '60s. Anyway, "Once More" ended up on 1964's "Bluegrass Hootenanny," the second of three albums Melba and George made together (the best tracks of which are collected on this disc). In fact, this ballad has the Osborne Brothers signature...
...must surely have given Jones great pleasure. After all, he grew up listening to the clear band of WSM in Nashville (the home of the Grand Ole Opry) and such stars as Tennessee's Roy Acuff and Kentucky's Bill Monroe, the latter, of course, the inventor of bluegrass...