O Brother, Where Art Thou ?

Rolling Stone (1/03/02, p.119) - Ranked #9 in Rolling Stone's "Top 10 2001". Rolling Stone (1/18/01, pp.56-7) - 3.5 stars out of 5 - "...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..." Rolling Stone (1/03/02, p.119) - Ranked #9 in Rolling Stone's "Top 10 2001". Rolling Stone (1/18/01, pp.56-7) - 3.5 stars out of 5 - "...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..." Entertainment Weekly (10/12/01, p.38) - Ranked #56 in EW's "100 Best Movie Soundtracks" - "...An unlikely hillbilly smash making 1930s-style string-band music the 1st trend of the 21st-century..." Entertainment Weekly (10/12/01, p.38) - Ranked #56 in EW's "100 Best Movie Soundtracks" - "...An unlikely hillbilly smash making 1930s-style string-band music the 1st trend of the 21st-century..." Q (12/00, p.139) - 4 stars out of 5 - "...Mostly traditional spirituals and bluegrass numbers....richly evocative of its time and place, and educational too..." Q (12/00, p.139) - 4 stars out of 5 - "...Mostly traditional spirituals and bluegrass numbers....richly evocative of its time and place, and educational too..." Uncut (p.102) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "[With] some superb country-blues fiddling from John Hartford and a couple of breezy, close-harmony stunners from the Cox Family." No Depression (1-2/01, p.90) - "...The rarest of contemporary soundtracks: good (old) music, coherently programmed, and masterfully perfromed....an exceptional album..." No Depression (1-2/01, p.90) - "...The rarest of contemporary soundtracks: good (old) music, coherently programmed, and masterfully perfromed....an exceptional album..." Mojo (Publisher) (6/02, p.68) - Included in Mojo's "100 Coolest Movie Soundtracks". Mojo (Publisher) (1/02, p.70) - Ranked #3 in Mojo's "Best [10] Box Sets & Compilations of 2001". Mojo (Publisher) (6/02, p.68) - Included in Mojo's "100 Coolest Movie Soundtracks". Mojo (Publisher) (1/02, p.70) - Ranked #3 in Mojo's "Best [10] Box Sets & Compilations of 2001".

聴いているとアメリカの田舎町をのんびりドライブしているような気分にさせられる心地よさ。このサントラでアメリカン・ルーツ・ミュージックの魅力を知った人も多いはず。劇中で特に印象深かった一曲はアリソン・クラウスのﾞDOWN RIVER TO PARTY"。誰もが心の奥底に眠らせている懐かしい風景を呼び覚ませてくれそうなブルー・グラスの優しいメロディーがたまらない!サントラでは異例のグラミー賞、アルバム・オブ・ジ・イヤー受賞! (C)金澤宏一