Chords for O' Brother Where Art Thou - Interview (Part 1)

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_ [F] The Coens and T-Bone said, you know, the guitar isn't quite [C]
what we were looking for, so I grabbed the guitar and I kind [F] of untuned it.
I tuned a string down and just started [Cm] playing some [F] raspy, rattly, _ I guess a little bit grittier [Bb] guitar.
_ And [Cm] the Coens both stood up and they said, that's exactly [F] it.
They said, can you sing and play at the same time?
And I thought, I think I can. _
Farewell to [Bb] old Kentucky, the [D] place where I was [F] born and raised, the [C] place where he was [F] born and raised.
My main [Cm] job in life is to sing and play at the same time, yes, but [F] I had to ask myself, can I [Bb]
or not?
But it was very [C] fun.
It was very fun to get to have such a specific picture in my mind what was going on.
I mean, first through the solo part [F] and the same thing when we did the band version.
_ [Bb] We had to understand that it [Cm] was broken up, a fight broke out and [F] we had to stop playing.
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_ _ _ [F] I was [C] curious more than anything because I'm a [F] fan of the Coen brothers.
_ _ [Bb] So I went to the studio and met them [C] and met T-Bone and Denise Stiff was [F] helping with the talent.
_ _ _ _ I basically just was hanging out and [Fm] was told about the project and how it was [C] working and they were uniquely [F] enough recording the music before the film was [D] made, which was pretty wild.
_ [Fm] And it was good.
It was [C] obviously good.
It was off the wall.
It wasn't mainstream country.
It wasn't much to do with most of what I have [Bb] to do for a living.
But [C] it was good.
It was actually great.
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_ [Bb] _ [C] The Man of Constant Sorrow, [F] when it was being cut, sounded [Bb] like a pop hit.
You know what I mean?
A bizarre one.
But it did and that was without being surrounded by film or Clooney or anybody.
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_ _ _ They were looking for three sisters [Eb] who could sing three [Bb] part harmony and we were three sisters and we could sing.
The ages they were looking [C] for were eight to twelve and at that time we were five, [Eb] seven and eleven.
[Bb] So we kind of thought we might be stretching [Eb] it a little bit but [Gb] we definitely could sing three part [Bb] harmony. _ _ _
Oh come, _ _ angel band.
That was actually on the tape that they gave us the day of the very first audition.
In the Highways was on [Eb] there and Angel Band.
And we listened to it and I remember [Ab] thinking that Angel Band was [Eb] kind of morbid because I don't think I really understood [Bb] the full meaning of the lyrics.
And then as we've grown older that's become one of our favorite songs to sing.
I mean it's so beautiful.
[Eb] _ Immortal _ _ home.
[Ebm] Oh bear me away on your snow white wings to my _ immortal _ home.
_ [Gb] _ _ [Eb] It's kind of a weird thing to talk about all of this [Bb] because in a way to me it [Bb] feels like almost a different [Eb] life that [Bb] time.
Even though [Eb] I'm very aware that it was us.
[Bb] I never want it to sound like we're big headed or anything like that.
But I mean as I listen back it was such a [Ebm] chilling _ [Ab] rendition that we did.
And to be so [Eb] young but to still put [Bb] so much emotion.
I don't know [Eb] if we meant to put emotion into it or if it just was an accident.
[N] _ _ Oh _ come _ _ Angel _ Band.
Come _ _ _ around _ me stand.
Oh [F] bear me away on your snow white wings to my _ _ _ immortal home.
_ _ _ Oh bear me away on your snow white wings to my _ _ _ immortal _ _ home.
[Eb]
But man they were like little birds.
They [N] sang like crazy. _ _
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