The women drug them with corn whiskey and they lose consciousness. They see three women washing clothes and singing. Unbeknownst to them, the recording becomes a major hit. That night, the trio part ways with Tommy after their car is discovered by the police. In need of money, the four stop at a radio broadcast tower where they record a song as The Soggy Bottom Boys. They pick up Tommy Johnson, a young black man, who claims he sold his soul to the devil in exchange for the ability to play guitar. They sleep in the barn, but Wash reports them to Sheriff Cooley, who, along with his men, torches the barn. The trio make their way to the house of Wash, Pete's cousin. He tells them, among other prophecies, that they will find a fortune but not the one they seek. The three get a lift from a blind man driving a handcar on a railway. Three convicts, Ulysses Everett McGill, Pete, and Delmar O'Donnell, escape from a chain gang and set out to retrieve a supposed treasure Everett buried before the area is flooded to make a lake. They joined to perform the music from the film in a Down from the Mountain concert tour which was filmed for consumer consumption via TV and DVD. The country and folk musicians who were dubbed into the film included John Hartford, Alison Krauss, Dan Tyminski, Emmylou Harris, Gillian Welch, Ralph Stanley, Chris Sharp, Patty Loveless, and others. Released by Buena Vista Pictures (through Touchstone Pictures) in North America, France, Germany, Italy, and Spain and by Universal Pictures in other countries, the film met with a positive critical reception, and the soundtrack won a Grammy Award for Album of the Year in 2002. The movie was one of the first to extensively use digital color correction to give the film an autumnal, sepia-tinted look. Much of the music used in the film is period folk music. The title of the film is a reference to the Preston Sturges 1941 film Sullivan's Travels, in which the protagonist is a director who wants to film O Brother, Where Art Thou?, a fictitious book about the Great Depression. Its story is a modern satire loosely based on Homer's epic Greek poem The Odyssey that incorporates social features of the American South. The film is set in 1937 rural Mississippi during the Great Depression. O Brother, Where Art Thou? is a 2000 crime comedy-drama film written, produced, co-edited and directed by Joel and Ethan Coen, and starring George Clooney, John Turturro, and Tim Blake Nelson, with Chris Thomas King, John Goodman, Holly Hunter, and Charles Durning in supporting roles.
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