Ulysses Everett McGill (George Clooney) is having difficulty adjusting to his hard-labor sentence in Mississippi. He scams his way off the chain gang with simple Delmar (Tim Blake Nelson) and maladjusted Pete (John Turturro), then the trio sets out to pursue freedom and the promise of a fortune in buried treasure. With nothing to lose and still in shackles, their hasty run takes them on an incredible journey of awesome experiences and colorful characters.

We're kicking off our Sounds of the Summer series--and getting you ready for Christopher Nolan's rather more traditional Odyssey adaptation later this month--with a full week of the Coens' American masterpiece, with a soundtrack as iconic as its storytelling.