The Soggy Bottom Boys

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The fact that the Soggy Bottom Boys are a fictitious group from the movie “O Brother, Where Art Thou?”, doesn’t make their hit single “Man of Constant Sorrow” any less amazing, winning the real-life Soggy Bottom Boys (Dan Tyminski, Harley Allen, and Pat Enright, not otherwise affiliated) a CMA Award for Single of the Year and a Grammy Award for Best Country Collaboration with Vocals.

Jordan Rivers and the Soggy Bottom Boys are the fictitious Depression-era “old-timey music” quartet and accompaniment from the movie O Brother, Where Art Thou? The name Soggy Bottom Boys is possibly a reference to the famous Foggy Mountain Boys, a West Virginia bluegrass band of the 1940s with Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs, but also a humorous name given the two backup singers who were wet from being baptized earlier in the film. The Soggy Bottom Boys’ hit single is Dick Burnett’s “Man of Constant Sorrow,” a song that had already enjoyed much success in real life.

After the film’s release, the fictional band became so popular that the actual talents behind the music (who were dubbed into the movie) Ralph Stanley, John Hartford, Alison Krauss, Emmylou Harris, Gillian Welch, Dan Tyminski, Chris Sharp, and others, performed music from O Brother, Where Art Thou? in a Down from the Mountain concert tour and film.
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