It did so mainly through the several variations of the film’s main song “Man Of Constant Sorrow”. O Brother Where Art Thou is set in Mississippi during the Great Depression. So, it’s not ...

One autumn day in 1959, a field recordist named Alan Lomax sat at the roadside and watched a Mississippi chain-gang chop logs ...

The song slipped its chains ... off-grid Mississippi and so it is too with O Brother, Where Art Thou?, which has its feet, hands and fingers in several different decades. The film is re-issued ...