Oh Brother, Where Art Thou: Classic Or Dud

Fun bit in this piece:

http://www.indyweek.com/indyweek/fifteen-years-later-bluegrass-is-still-reeling-from-o-brother-where-art-thou/Content?oid=5070656

But even though the soundtrack focuses on traditional tunes, the Coens and company were surprised to find that some songs they had thought were in the public domain—and thus, free to use in the film—were not, in fact, traditional. They'd been mining discs of music that had often been incorrectly deemed traditional. Wilbur knew that sloppy attributions wouldn't fly.

"I remember my first conversation with Ethan when he showed me the CD, and he said, 'Look, it says right here, 'Traditional,'" Wilbur says. "I said, 'So what?'"