I missed the showing of "Oh Brother" in town. After reading the postings in the forum, I was very interested in seeing the movie in video form. I made three trips to the video store trying to get a copy. Well,I just finished watching it this afternoon.Disappointed is all I can say. Don't get me wrong, there were a few highlights. I enjoyed "Man of Constant Sorrow", and the wonderful singing in the river baptism scene. While watching the movie, the background music triggered flashbacks of my childhood, family, gospel, and church singings. Now I remember those days clearly, hot muggy evenings, people singing totally out of tune, faking the words to the songs, playing with paper fans with funeral home advertisements on them, buzzing of insects and bug bites all over me. Sitting for hours on hard wooden seats under a tented area, hoping someone would give me a peice of candy or gum, listening to old people blabbering on and on about the "Holy Spirit". Preachers screaming "Come to the Alter". All I wanted to do was run around and catch lightening bugs.

As a little girl I remembered Daddy singing "Big Rock Candy Mountain", I know now that he was singing his own "children's" folk version of the song.His melody was even different, too bad he has passed on to the "other side", and we can't discuss this matter.My recollections of my child hood are shattered and totally messed up!

On a final positive note,I have been fiddling for over 40 years, naturally my ears perked up to the nice fiddle backups of "Keep on the Sunnyside". I give the movie ** (2 stars). Shar