Who couldn’t like a movie where Homer’s Odyssey is set in the depression-era American south? But what popped into my head lately wasn’t the movie itself, but just the music. It’s amazing: it brought regional bluegrass to the attention of the mainstream, and everybody was gobsmacked by what we’d been missing. If you haven’t seen it (or heard it), here’s a few highlights:
Alison Krauss, singing a gospel standard here, also harmonizes as a siren on the track below.
Doesn’t everyone do their laundry that way? I feel like there’s supposed to be a lesson here…
In the film, this gravel-soaked threat of a song is used at a Klan meeting!
And, of course, the Grammy-winning…
