Man of Constant Sorrow

[Tero]

http://m.metrolyrics.com/i-am-a-man-of- ... -boys.html

Questions:
1 what happened?
2 why is it important to people where they were raised?

[Hermit]

When I read the title of this thread I immediately thought of Leonard Cohen. Music to slash your wrists by.

[Tero]

Dylan sang it, then it popped up in the O Brother film.

Never have anything to do with Leonard Cohen. If you ate into gloomy stuff, try something lighter. Like Death Metal.

[Xamonas Chegwé]

Dylan sang it, then it popped up in the O Brother film.

Never have anything to do with Leonard Cohen. If you ate into gloomy stuff, try something lighter. Like Death Metal.

It is known from 1913 but could be a hundred years or more older - nobody really knows. It was a popular staple of the early 60s folkies - with Joan Baez and Judy Collins both beating Dylan to a recording.

My advice to men of constant sorrow is as follows: Have you tried wanking?

[cronus]

Is that something treatable? If not might be best to hurry the process along and get over it?

[Tero]

The song is a real life reflection of a bluegrass musician from Kentucky of the early 20th century. He was miner and logger who was robbed, shot and ended up blind. His only means of income was his music.
- Jim, West Palm Beach, FL

Kentucky bluegrass fiddler Dick Burnett wrote the song in 1913. Emry Arthur first recorded it in 1928, but it was made famous by Ralph Stanley and the Stanley Brothers in 1950. Bob Dylan and Waylon Jennings recorded a version (as did Peter, Paul, and Mary). Rod Stewart didn't record his version until 1969. As a child of bluegrass, this song has been around for a while. I remember hearing it played as a very young girl.
- Sarah, Nashville, TN

That's all the Interwebz has.

[Tero]

But this born and raised. It always seems to be a matter of pride.

He: i was born and raised...

Me: yeah yeah, we all have to be from somewhere.

[Xamonas Chegwé]

The song is a real life reflection of a bluegrass musician from Kentucky of the early 20th century. He was miner and logger who was robbed, shot and ended up blind. His only means of income was his music.
- Jim, West Palm Beach, FL

Kentucky bluegrass fiddler Dick Burnett wrote the song in 1913. Emry Arthur first recorded it in 1928, but it was made famous by Ralph Stanley and the Stanley Brothers in 1950. Bob Dylan and Waylon Jennings recorded a version (as did Peter, Paul, and Mary). Rod Stewart didn't record his version until 1969. As a child of bluegrass, this song has been around for a while. I remember hearing it played as a very young girl.
- Sarah, Nashville, TN

That's all the Interwebz has.

Not quite...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_of_Constant_Sorrow

[Tero]

Thanks, I had found that but missed the History tab on the phone browser.

The Dylan version is shorter, has no blindness, and a really confusing PARTLY raised
I am a man of constant sorrow
I've seen trouble all my days
I'll say goodbye to Colorado
Where I was born and partly raised.

Your mother says I'm a stranger
My face you'll never see no more
But there's one promise, darling
I'll see you on God's golden shore.

Through this open world I'm about to ramble
Through ice and snow, sleet and rain
I'm about to ride that morning railroad
Perhaps I'll die on that train.

I'm going back to Colorado
The place that I started from
If I knowed how bad you'd treat me
Honey, I never would have come.

[Xamonas Chegwé]

Thanks, I had found that but missed the History tab on the phone browser.

Ah! Gotcha. It looked like you had seen some of the same info as me but had missed a load - phone browser versions of wiki can be shit.

[Seth]

Thanks, I had found that but missed the History tab on the phone browser.

Ah! Gotcha. It looked like you had seen some of the same info as me but had missed a load - phone browser versions of wiki can be shit.

Isn't that the one that the Soggy Bottom Boys sang in "O Brother, where art thou?"

[Xamonas Chegwé]

Thanks, I had found that but missed the History tab on the phone browser.

Ah! Gotcha. It looked like you had seen some of the same info as me but had missed a load - phone browser versions of wiki can be shit.

Isn't that the one that the Soggy Bottom Boys sang in "O Brother, where art thou?"

Yep - great version - and a great flim.

[Seth]

Thanks, I had found that but missed the History tab on the phone browser.

Ah! Gotcha. It looked like you had seen some of the same info as me but had missed a load - phone browser versions of wiki can be shit.

Isn't that the one that the Soggy Bottom Boys sang in "O Brother, where art thou?"

Yep - great version - and a great flim.

Yes indeed. I like most of the music, but I really liked the Sirens and the baptism in addition to the Soggy Bottom Boys.

[Tero]

Yeah yeah, all that redemption shit. Hollywood loves that stuff!!!

[Xamonas Chegwé]

Yeah yeah, all that redemption shit. Hollywood loves that stuff!!!

Personally, I appreciated the clever restaging of the Odyssey - and the silly dances.