The Coen brothers are hoping the music for December's Inside Llewyn Davis—the already highly praised story of a struggling folk singer—can live (and thrive) independently of the film.

This post is in partnership with Consequence of Sound, an online music publication devoted to the ever growing and always thriving worldwide music scene. Following an embattled young folksinger in ...

“If it’s never new and it doesn’t get old,” the singer tells his audience, “it’s a folk song.” Llewyn Davis (Oscar Isaac) has just finished performing the traditional blues number “Hang Me, Oh Hang Me ...