Who Sand O Death in O Brother Where Art Thou

American folk vocal

"O Death", as well known as "O, Death", "Oh Expiry" and "Conversations with Death", is a traditional Appalachian folk song, listed as number 4933 in the Roud Folk Vocal Index. The vocal is by and large attributed to the musician and Baptist preacher Lloyd Chandler, but information technology was likely taken or adapted from folk songs already existing in the region.

Variants [edit]

The original version, as performed past Lloyd Chandler and members of the Wallin family:

Oh what is this I cannot meet
With icy easily gets a hold on me
Oh I am Death, none can excel
I open the doors of heaven and hell^{[ This quote needs a citation ]}

A modified version with a chorus and different tune, performed by Dock Boggs, Nimrod Workman, Ralph Stanley and others:

Oh, Expiry
Whoa, Expiry
Won't you spare me over 'til some other twelvemonth?
Well what is this, that I can't see?
With ice-cold hands taking hold of me
Well I am Decease, none can excel
I'll open the door to Heaven or Hell^{[ This quote needs a citation ]}

Origin [edit]

First line reads: Expiry/ O, sinner I'm come by sky's decree, my warrant is to summon thee.

In 2004, the Periodical of Folklore Research asserted that "O, Death" is Lloyd Chandler'southward vocal "A Chat with Decease", which Chandler performed in the 1920s while preaching in Appalachia.^{[1] [2]} Chandler's girl-in-constabulary, Barbara, asserted that "O, Death" was based on Chandler's composition.^[3]

Nonetheless, Chandler seems to have taken the song from some other source or at to the lowest degree based it on an older version.

In 1913, the Journal of American Folklore printed a version sung by "Eastern North Carolina Negroes" 1908:

Sinner, I come to you by Hebbin'south decree;

This very night you must go wid me.

O-o death! O-o death!

How kin I go wid you lot?

"Jes' like a blossom in its flower,

Why should y'all cutting me downwardly and so soon?

O-o death! O-o death!

How kin I become wid you lot?^[4]

This version seems closer to the version commencement performed by Dock Boggs than Chandler'southward "original" version.

Encounters with a personified "Death" featured in traditional English songs which perchance date to the 14th century,^[5] including "Death and the Lady" (Roud 1031), which was found in the oral tradition in early twentieth century England.^[6] "O Expiry" bears a strong resemblance to a broadside ballad printed in Republic of ireland in 1870, entitled "A Dialogue Between Death & the Sinner"^[seven] (pictured).

Recordings [edit]

Country blues1920's banjo player Moran Lee "Dock" Boggs recorded the song in 1963 subsequently his 'rediscovery' during the Folk Music Revival.^[8] A recording from the 1938 National Folk Festival in Washington, D.C. by an unknown singer is held by the Library of Congress.^[nine] Diverse folk music artists included "O, Expiry" on musical collections throughout the 1970s and 1980s.^[ten] Information technology is sung in the 1976 Barbara Kopple documentary Harlan Canton, U.s. by early union activist and coal miner Nimrod Workman, a well known folk music singer from Mingo County, West Virginia. In the 1960s, Alan Lomax recorded the folk and gospel vocalizer Bessie Jones singing "O Death".^{[11] [12]}

Lloyd Chandler's recording of "A Conversation with Death" appears on Rounder Records 1975 release High Atmosphere: Ballads and Banjo Tunes from Virginia and North Carolina, a collection of recordings fabricated by John Cohen.

Among the most famous recordings is Ralph Stanley'southward version in the 2000 Coen brothers picture show (and soundtrack album) O Brother, Where Art Thou?, for which Stanley won the Grammy Award for Best Male Country Vocal Performance in 2002.^[x] The soundtrack's producer, T-Os Burnett, originally asked for a banjo rendition emulating Dock Boggs, but Stanley convinced him otherwise with an a cappella performance in the style of the Appalachian Primitive Baptist Universalist church.^[13] The song besides appears in episode 7 of the second flavour of television set serial Fargo, inspired by some other Coen brothers film of the same name. The version used in this episode was recorded past Shakey Graves with Monica Martin of PHOX.

"O, Death" has appeared twice in American television series Supernatural, both times in connection with the show's personification of Expiry, portrayed by Julian Richings: the 2010 episode "2 Minutes to Midnight" featured a version past Jen Titus; Lisa Berry performed the song in character as Billie in the 2015 episode "Class and Void". A version by Amy Van Roekel is included in the 2015 horror video game Until Dawn. The version sung by Vera Hall was featured in episode three of the beginning season of Altered Carbon, a Netflix original.^[14]

Other versions [edit]

• A Loma to Die Upon recorded an extreme metal variant with harpist Timbre on Holy Despair (2014).
• Amy van Roekel, for the video game Until Dawn (2015).
• Biting Stop, on Illusions of Dominance (2015).
• Camper Van Beethoven, with variant lyrics and melody (1988).
• Diamanda Galás, on Guilty Guilty Guilty (2008), All the Mode (2017), and At Saint Thomas the Apostle Harlem (2017).
• English folk-stone band Simulated Lights, on Salvor (2015)
• Faun Fables, on a reissue of Early on Vocal (2004).
• Gangstagrass, on Broken Hearts and Stolen Money (2014).
• John Cygan as protagonist Silas Greaves in the video game Phone call of Juarez: Gunslinger (2013).^[15]
• Joshua Eustis (formerly of Telefon Tel Aviv), under the moniker "Sons of Magdalene" on Move to Pain (2014).^[16]
• John Reedy, on Starday Records, 1961.^[17]
• Kaleidoscope, on Side Trips (1967).
• Kate Mann, in Rattlesnake on the Road (2014).
• American metal band Khemmis recorded a doom metal version on a split EP with Spirit Adrift (2017) and for the video game serial The Nighttime Pictures Anthology.^[18]
• Mike Seeger with the medieval ensemble Hesperus, on Crossing Over (1988).
• Rhiannon Giddens feat. Francesco Turrisi, on They're Calling Me Abode (2021).
• Rising Appalachia with a spoken word interlude by Theresa Davis, on Wider Circles (2015).
• Sam Amidon, on All is Well (2008).
• Americana musician Shakey Graves, on Fargo (2016)
• Vera Hall, as Death Have Mercy (1959)

References [edit]

1. ^ Smith, Hazel (April 25, 2005). "HOT DISH: The Preacher and the Song". CMT.com. State Music Television. Retrieved 2008-12-28 .
2. ^ Lindahl, Carl (May–August 2004). "Thrills and Miracles: Legends of Lloyd Chandler". Periodical of Folklore Research. Indiana University Press. 41 (2–3): 133–171. doi:10.2979/JFR.2004.41.two-three.133. ISSN 0737-7037. JSTOR 3814588.
3. ^ Chandler, Barbara (May–Baronial 2004). "Why I Believe That Lloyd Chandler Wrote "Conversation with Expiry," also Known every bit "O Death"". Journal of Sociology Research. Indiana Academy Press. 41 (2): 127–132. doi:x.1353/jfr.2005.0001. ISSN 0737-7037. Retrieved 2008-12-28 .
4. ^ "O Death (Roud Folksong Index S274695)". The Vaughan Williams Memorial Library . Retrieved 2021-ten-xx .
5. ^ Gilchrist, Anne G. (1941). ""Death and the Lady" in English Balladry". Journal of the English language Folk Dance and Song Order. 4 (2): 37–48. ISSN 0071-0563.
6. ^ "Death and the Lady (Roud 1031)". mainlynorfolk.info . Retrieved 2021-10-20 .
7. ^ "Dialogue between expiry & the sinner - Old age & expiry - English ballads - National Library of Scotland". digital.nls.uk . Retrieved 2020-11-13 .
8. ^ Sylvester, Ron (March 14, 2007). "Song 'Oh, Death' dates dorsum to the belatedly 1920s and before". Kansas.com. The Wichita Eagle. Archived from the original on September 26, 2013. Retrieved March 16, 2020.
9. ^ "Oh death". Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA . Retrieved 27 January 2019.
10. ^ ^{a b} Wichita Hawkeye, Op. cit.
11. ^ "O Death, by Bessie Jones and the Georgia Sea Island Singers". Alan Lomax Archive . Retrieved 2021-11-12 .
12. ^ "Bessie Jones and the Georgia Body of water Island Singers: Arrive Wedlock". Pitchfork . Retrieved 2021-11-12 .
13. ^ "Old-Time Man" interview by Don Harrison June 2008 Virginia Living, p. 57.
14. ^ "O DEATH: ALTERED CARBON, VERA HALL, RALPH STANLEY, JEN TITUS, A HILL TO DIE UPON, KHEMMIS". No Make clean Singing. February 4, 2018. Retrieved February 7, 2018.
15. ^ "Oh Death". Genius . Retrieved 20 November 2017.
16. ^ "O, Decease, by Sons of Magdalene". Sons of Magdalene . Retrieved 27 January 2019.
17. ^ "John Reedy And His Stone Mountain Trio - Oh, Death". Discogs . Retrieved 27 January 2019.
18. ^ Lake, Daniel (two May 2017). "Khemmis Have "A Conversation with Expiry"". Decibel Mag . Retrieved 20 November 2017.

External links [edit]

• "O Death lyrics by Ralph Stanley from O Brother, Where Fine art Yard? soundtrack". Stlyrics.com . Retrieved 27 Jan 2019.

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Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O_Death

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