{"id":3034,"date":"2012-12-18T11:37:11","date_gmt":"2012-12-18T16:37:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.westwoodvalley.com\/?p=3034"},"modified":"2012-12-18T11:37:11","modified_gmt":"2012-12-18T16:37:11","slug":"my-musical-evolution-part-371-21st-century-o-brother","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wrharrison.com\/musicalevolution\/2012\/12\/18\/my-musical-evolution-part-371-21st-century-o-brother\/","title":{"rendered":"My Musical Evolution – Part 371 21st Century O Brother"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"O<\/a>Sometimes a really good album comes totally unexpected, right out of no where.\u00a0 I heard the O Brother Where Art Thou? Soundtrack<\/em> before I saw the movie or even heard of\u00a0the movie.\u00a0 We were in Aric’s truck and hew was\u00a0driving us up\u00a0to Strawberry for another fishing weekend. This would have been\u00a0October of 2001. We were on 131 a few miles north of Grand Rapids when I\u00a0first heard the rock breaking opening of what I now know to be Po\u00a0Lazarus. <\/em>As they song went on I couldn’t help but wonder what the heck I was listening to. Aric had already begun to dabble\u00a0in country music. This seemed to take it a step further. He had only been living in North Carolina for 5 months but it appeared to be already taking its toll.<\/p>\n

As the song continued he explained that it was from a movie based on Homer’s The Odyssey, called O Brother Where Art Thou? <\/em>It seemed hard to explain and hard to comprehend.\u00a0 Fortunately, Big Rock Candy Mountain <\/em>soon followed and from that point on, it was amazingly cool to listen to.<\/p>\n

It carried this vintage feel that blended Old Timey<\/em> music with Bluegrass and Appalachian music. It is a really good album. It made me want to explore more mountain music. It sent Scott on an Alison Krauss Odyssey. Isn’t it cool how such a small event as listening to this in the truck altered Scott’s Musical Evolution?<\/em><\/p>\n

I eventually saw the film but it happened in an unorthodox Tarentino way. It was running on the Starz network that winter.\u00a0 The first time, I came in at the point where the Soggy Bottom Boys were on stage performing Man Of Constant Sorrow. <\/em> I had recognized the song but I think the whole Odyssey aspect threw me off. I was trying to figure out how this was The Odyssey.\u00a0 A few days later, I saw it gain only I started watching it from about half an hour before where I came in the previous time.\u00a0 This happened 4 or 5 times. Each time I’d start from a little closer to the beginning and watch to the end.\u00a0 I finally wised up and set the VCR to get the whole thing.<\/p>\n

It is a very entertaining film and like other period films like Mandingo, the vernacular is a character. They way they speak and the words they use are very interesting.\u00a0I still think the Odyssey thing is a stretch.<\/p>\n

James Carter And The Prisoners – Po Lazarus<\/em> Imagine hearing this with no idea what it means.
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