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Release Date: 17 December, 2002 Retail Price: $14.98 OUR Price: $12.99 You SAVE: $1.99! Cast: Complete Cast (7 total) |
Down from the Mountain (The "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" Concert) Reviews
A Superb Compilation of America's Music
These are the people who appeared in the soundtrack for the movie O Brother, Where Art Thou. There's a whole lot more as
each performer was invited to sing other songs as well and the
best of them were carefully recorded at the Ryman Auditorium in
this wonderful concert, but it was all carefully packaged in this DVD with interviews, and glimpses into the backstage frenzy that goes on in a concert like this.
Emmy Lou Harris, Alison Krauss and Union Station, the late John Hartford as emcee/musician, and a host of gospel, bluegrass and country musicians make this the perfect DVD for having friends over to watch. Perhaps my favorite tracks are the two numbers by Gillian Welch and partner David Rawlings. Both participate with other artists as well, but it is the closing pair of numbers by Dr. Ralph Stanley that give this DVD the stamp of historical significance. If you do not own this DVD, your music and film libraries are incomplete.
disarming
simply wish to make mention of the fact that last night I listened to and watched the video, for approximately the seventh time, of the Down From The Mountain concert. As I sat quietly in the afterglow I could not help but think, that anyone who has ever felt any love of America, its soul, its heritage, its people, and has not yet seen this video is doing themselves a disservice.
I really think that I experienced a transcendent moment watching and listening to one particular segment. When the master of ceremony, John Hartford, an Imp of a man in a black bowler hat and suspenders raised his fiddle and began to play, "That Lonesome Valley", I could hear the lyrics of my mind "when you walk that lonesome valley ...you've got to walk it by yourself." His friends and the audience all knew that this lovely man was dying of cancer and could be gone within the week. But he embraced us with his music and gave us the gift of staring a moment of being truly alive.
I have said it before and I'll say it again, this concert is truly disarming. BB
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