Not-So-Contemporary Classics: Man Of Constant Sorrow [Updated]

I like the Soggy Bottom Boys and Limboteque renditions.

And Steven Root's part!

Posted by Sam L. at September 23, 2013 11:15 AM

Yeah I have heard many, many versions of this but the Soggy Bottom Boys is the best, I think.

Posted by Christopher Taylor at September 23, 2013 12:00 PM

I agree with Bob. Very happy you introduced me to Roscoe. That man is the authentic deal.

Well blogged, my friend.

Posted by Casey Klahn at September 23, 2013 5:25 PM

The close-ups of Dylan are too painful. Youth, as my mother used to say, is wasted on the young. Never knew what that meant at the time.

Posted by Steve at September 23, 2013 8:50 PM

In the High Lonesome Desert, the High Lonesome Sound speaks to me. Thanks.

Posted by Gray at September 23, 2013 10:01 PM

Blues is not a matter of color. It's a matter of bad luck. Tiger Woods cannot sing the Blues. Sonny Liston could have. Ugly white people also got a leg up on the Blues.

Posted by chasmatic at September 24, 2013 1:53 PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2JDMkU53Bs

Posted by Patvann at September 25, 2013 10:18 AM

Excellent find. Updated.

Posted by vanderleun at September 25, 2013 11:37 AM

This song is the song that made me love Bluegrass, and in-turn has been my muse for learning the harmonica... GAWD how I love this truly American music!

Posted by Patvann at September 25, 2013 7:03 PM

The Soggy Bottom Boys was just a name invented for the movie "Oh Brother Where Art Thou". The group actually doing the singing is Union Station. It sounds like it was taken from their live album done with Alyson Krauss - which is pretty phenomenal and worth twice the asking price

Posted by JSCD3 at October 22, 2014 3:49 PM

It's fare you well, my own true lover,
I never expect to see you no more.
There is just one promise that's given,
I'll meet you on God's golden shore.

Posted by Rob De Witt at October 22, 2014 4:42 PM

If Limbotheque was borned and raised in Old Kentucky, it was only because she was an anchor baby.
She doesn't exude sorrow as much as she does frolicsomeness.

Posted by Jewel at October 22, 2014 5:54 PM

If Limbotheque was borned and raised in Old Kentucky, it was only because she was an anchor baby.
She doesn't seem as sorrowful as she does frolicsome.

Posted by Jewel at October 22, 2014 5:55 PM

Hm. I coulda swored I edited that before I published it.

Posted by Jewel at October 22, 2014 5:56 PM

The superb Patty Loveless did the song as "Soul of Constant Sorrow" on her wonderful "Mountain Soul" disc which also the great "You'll Never Leave Harlan Alive."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u25VelS_dbo

Posted by BlogDog at October 22, 2014 6:45 PM

Were we really that young?
5:30 in the morning and I'm crying.

Posted by Deborah HH at October 23, 2014 3:26 AM

Thank you, Gerard, for this. I loved every version.

Posted by Don Rodrigo at October 23, 2014 8:41 AM