Threads and Tangents 3/7/23 - Music from Coen Brothers Movies

The Coen Brothers are masters of using tunes and songs that we know and love to heighten, or mystify, what’s happening onscreen - like The Same Old Song in Blood Simple and Somebody to Love in A Serious Man.  This is even more apparent in their actual musicals, like O Brother, Where Art Thou? and Inside Llewyn Davis, that are curated down to the last note, integrating decades-old deep cuts into their story lines.

We'll hear music from: The Four Tops (Blood Simple), Carter Burwell (Raising Arizona and Burn After Reading), Jeff Tweedy (Fargo TV), Gipsy Kings (The Big Lebowski), Nina Simone (The Big Lebowski), Soggy Bottom Boys featuring Dan Tyminski (O’ Brother Where Art Thou), Alison Krauss (O’ Brother Where Art Thou), Édith Piaf (Intolerable Cruelty), Rose Stone and the Venice Four (The Ladykillers), Nappy Roots (The Ladykillers), Jefferson Airplane (A Serious Man), Marcus Mumford & Oscar Isaac (Inside Llewyn Davis), Justin Timberlake, Carey Mulligan, & Stark Sands (Inside Llewyn Davis), and Willie Watson & Tim Blake Nelson (The Ballad of Buster Scruggs).