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MikeM33 · 06:36 AM

Soggy Bottom Boys
I Am A Man Of Constant Sorrow

(chorus) In constant sorrow through his days

I am a man of constant sorrow
I've seen trouble all my day.
I bid farewell to old Kentucky
The place where I was born and raised.

(chorus) The place where he was born and raised

For six long years I've been in trouble
No pleasures here on earth I found
For in this world I'm bound to ramble
I have no friends to help me now.

(chorus) He has no friends to help him now

It's fare thee well my old lover
I never expect to see you again
For I'm bound to ride that northern railroad
Perhaps I'll die upon this train.

(chorus) Perhaps he'll die upon this train.

You can bury me in some deep valley
For many years where I may lay
Then you may learn to love another
While I am sleeping in my grave.

(chorus) While he is sleeping in his grave.

Maybe your friends think I'm just a stranger
My face you'll never see no more.
But there is one promise that is given
I'll meet you on God's golden shore.

(chorus) He'll meet you on God's golden shore

You got to go to the lonesome valley
You got to go there by yourself
Nobody else can go for you
You got to go there by yourself
Oh, you got to ask the lords forgiveness
Nobody else can ask him for you
You got to go to the lonesome valley
You got to go there by yourself
Nobody else, nobody else can go for you
You got to go there by yourself

MikeM

rjenkinson · May 12, 2003, 07:00 AM

good soundtrack.

-r.

slowtax · May 12, 2003, 09:25 AM

I like to sing the Po Lazarus song when I'm breaking rocks.

maxelson · May 12, 2003, 09:26 AM

Nope. Sorry. We plum sold out.

GoGoReggieXPowars · May 12, 2003, 10:30 AM

"I'm voting for yours truly!"
"Me too!"
"Well, I'm with you guys."

maxelson · May 12, 2003, 10:32 AM

"Them... them women done loved him up and t-t-t-tturned him into uh... h-h-h-horney toad!"

maxelson · May 12, 2003, 10:33 AM

"I'm not a Fop man, I'm a Dapper Dan man"
"Two weeks"
"Well. Ain't this place just a geographical oddity. Two weeks away from everywhere!"

GoGoReggieXPowars · May 12, 2003, 10:37 AM

(damn, beaten by Max again!)

Have you guys checked out the section of the DVD where they do all the digital colour correction? It's pretty damn amazing.

maxelson · May 12, 2003, 10:37 AM

Ooooo. And from another favorite Coen Bros. flick:

Verna
. . . What're you chewing over?

Tom
. . . Remembering something. . .

Verna
What was it?

Tom turns to look at her, then turns back and looks out the
window.

Tom
Just a dream. I was walking in the woods, don't know why. . . The wind came up and blew my hat off. . .

Verna
And you chased it, right? You ran and ran and finally you caught up to it and picked it up but it wasn't a hat anymore. It had changed into something else--something wonderful.

Tom
No. It stayed a hat. And no I didn't chase it. I watched it blow away. . .

He takes a drag an the cigarette.

. . . Nothing more foolish than a man chasing his hat.

andi*pandi · May 12, 2003, 11:10 AM

She done R-U-N-N-O-F-T.

SeSawaya · May 12, 2003, 11:32 AM

if you like that music, you'd probably like my CD,
theres a lot of free "live" mp3s there too.

Link is below

GoGoReggieXPowars · May 12, 2003, 01:28 PM

FYI: Miller's Crossing and Barton Fink are out on DVD on May 20th.

You givin' me the high hat?

maxelson · May 12, 2003, 01:32 PM

I-I-I-I-I'm just a... a... WRITE-A!

Miller's X-Ing on DVD!!!! WH00T!!!
::slap!::
Take a page outta dis guy's book! A little less you talk, a little more you say!
Kids. Whuddya gonna do?
Awwww. Whassamattuh, huh? Sumbuddy hitchu? Huh? Ain't we friends no more?

And then there's this (best line EVER):

Let's see where da twist flops.

ratlater · May 12, 2003, 01:40 PM

Originally posted by GoGoReggieXPowars:
FYI: Miller's Crossing and Barton Fink are out on DVD on May 20th.

You givin' me the high hat?

It's about damn time!! I can finally finish the collection.

-matt

DeathMan · May 12, 2003, 01:58 PM

Originally posted by maxelson:
Two weeks away from everywhere!"

I think this is my favorite line. Either that or "Any of you boys smittys? Or otherwised learned in the metalurgic arts?"

Nonsuch · May 12, 2003, 02:30 PM

It's a fool that looks for logic in the chambers of the human heart!

scottiB · May 12, 2003, 02:40 PM

Originally posted by GoGoReggieXPowars:
FYI: Miller's Crossing and Barton Fink are out on DVD on May 20th.

You givin' me the high hat?

Thank God. MC is my favorite Coen Bros. flick. I gave away my VHS tape before I realized that it wasn't OUT on DVD. It's been a long five years....

"What's the rumpus?"

maxelson · May 12, 2003, 02:48 PM

-You know I don't like to think.
-Well. Maybe it's time you should think about startin'.

vmpaul · May 12, 2003, 02:54 PM

"Mister, I don't want to speak out of turn but the man in there will give you $5 to sing into a can!"

May 12, 2003, 08:06 PM

If you posted here a few years ago and proclaimed there will be a bluegrass movie soundtrack that everyone will think is great, you'd get laughed out of this forum.

BTW, I like it too. I just think it's odd that nobody really liked bluegrass until this movie came out.

zigzag · May 12, 2003, 09:08 PM

Originally posted by hayesk:
BTW, I like it too. I just think it's odd that nobody really liked bluegrass until this movie came out.

Not so! If you want real bluegrass, get yourself some Jimmy Martin and work backwards.

vmpaul · May 12, 2003, 09:15 PM

Originally posted by hayesk:
If you posted here a few years ago and proclaimed there will be a bluegrass movie soundtrack that everyone will think is great, you'd get laughed out of this forum.

BTW, I like it too. I just think it's odd that nobody really liked bluegrass until this movie came out.

I don't think the movie started it but was a very visual part of the wave that started years ago. It's not just bluegrass either I think it's part of a whole 'roots music' (blues, folk, bluegrass) resurgence you see happening at the local level. At least in the Bay Area here this is true.

Part of it is the reaction is to fabricated pop music (n'sync, britney, etc.) and the other is to outrageous ticket prices to concerts. I know, that for me personally, I would rather pay $15-$25 to hear AUTHENTIC musicians, playing AUTHENTIC music than to spend $80-$100 to see someone lip-sink in concert or to hear a geriatric rock band regurgitate their hits one more time.

Because of the local music scene, internet radio and napster/kazaa I have discovered SO MUCH new music in the past 3-4 years to make me really interested again. I still go to 'name' concerts once in a while but mostly I go to clubs and coffeehouses. I'm lucky also because we get a number of major & minor acts who play the Fillmore in SF because of it's history. Those are usually pretty inexpensive as well.

zigzag · May 12, 2003, 10:25 PM

A similar thing happened in 1967 with Bonnie and Clyde, and again in 1972 with Deliverance. Every so often, somebody puts bluegrass in a movie and it sounds really fresh.

MikeM33 · May 12, 2003, 10:38 PM

"Who elected you leader of this outfit?!?"

"Well Pete, I thought it should be the one with the capacity for abstract thought"

MikeM

May 12, 2003, 11:34 PM

Originally posted by vmpaul:
Part of it is the reaction is to fabricated pop music (n'sync, britney, etc.) and the other is to outrageous ticket prices to concerts. I know, that for me personally, I would rather pay $15-$25 to hear AUTHENTIC musicians, playing AUTHENTIC music than to spend $80-$100 to see someone lip-sink in concert or to hear a geriatric rock band regurgitate their hits one more time.

Ratspittle · May 13, 2003, 12:34 AM

Bluegrass is huge in this area...but I guess that is a given. It is Western North Carolina (the mountains) But unlike most of the country it is performed almost exclusively by young people (20-30ish) as are the fans also. I hated bluegrass before I moved here about 9 years ago and have grown to love it. There is no dependance on samples, drum machines, or fancy dance moves....you either have it or you don't. Every musician in the band must take a "break" (or solo) in almost every song proving their worth. I must say though, no recording can do justice to a live bluegrass show. See one and it'll make a believer of you.

Stuphalina · May 13, 2003, 12:34 AM

-My hair!

Nonsuch · May 13, 2003, 10:36 AM

Originally posted by hayesk:
If you posted here a few years ago and proclaimed there will be a bluegrass movie soundtrack that everyone will think is great, you'd get laughed out of this forum.

BTW, I like it too. I just think it's odd that nobody really liked bluegrass until this movie came out.

I wouldn't consider it a straight bluegrass collection. I think it falls under the more general category of "old time" music, and the popular resurgence of that really started when the Harry Smith Anthology came out on CD some years ago.

MikeM33 · May 13, 2003, 03:40 PM

O, Death
O, Death
Won't you spare me over til another year
Well what is this that I can't see
With ice cold hands takin' hold of me
Well I am death, none can excel
I'll open the door to heaven or hell
Whoa, death someone would pray
Could you wait to call me another day
The children prayed, the preacher preached
Time and mercy is out of your reach
I'll fix your feet til you cant walk
I'll lock your jaw til you cant talk
I'll close your eyes so you can't see
This very air, come and go with me
I'm death I come to take the soul
Leave the body and leave it cold
To draw up the flesh off of the frame
Dirt and worm both have a claim
O, Death
O, Death
Won't you spare me over til another year
My mother came to my bed
Placed a cold towel upon my head
My head is warm my feet are cold
Death is a-movin upon my soul
Oh, death how you're treatin' me
You've close my eyes so I can't see
Well you're hurtin' my body
You make me cold
You run my life right outta my soul
Oh death please consider my age
Please don't take me at this stage
My wealth is all at your command
If you will move your icy hand
Oh the young, the rich or poor
Hunger like me you know
No wealth, no ruin, no silver no gold
Nothing satisfies me but your soul
O, death
O, death
Wont you spare me over til another year
Wont you spare me over til another year
Wont you spare me over til another year

MikeM