One autumn day in 1959, a field recordist named Alan Lomax sat at the roadside and watched a Mississippi chain-gang chop logs. One of the prisoners, James Carter, led a chorus of his fellow ...

By Andrew Unterberger Listen to the 67 Grammy winners for album of the year, and they’ll tell the story of the last six-and-two-thirds decades of popular music. Except, well, not really ...

The song slipped its chains ... off-grid Mississippi and so it is too with O Brother, Where Art Thou?, which has its feet, hands and fingers in several different decades. The film is re-issued ...