Who Did Chris Thomas King Play in O Brother Where Art Thou
#one 
Posted 25 Nov 2003 - 10:27 PM
hey im sure alot of you have seen the movie o brother where are thou, i was wondering what that guys name was, the blackness one who plays guitar, cause hes a really person
also, this guitar playing black guy besides plays this one song effectually the campfire, i accept no idea what the vocal is simply i know that the whole affair has been recorded cause ive heard it on some tv evidence, i would really like to know what the song is chosen
thank yous
#two
Posted 26 Nov 2003 - 12:xi AM
Is it Robert Johnson? I remember in the movie the black guy says he sold his soul at the crossroads, and if it was a existent person, Robert Johnson or Robert Jackson or something like that was mentioned to take sold his soul to the devil and then he could play guitar really well.
Of course I could be wrong. I think I am. 
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Posted 26 November 2003 - 12:22 AM
loved that movie...actually yeah, it'due south SUPPOSED to exist Robert Johnson....just in the movie his name was Tommy Johnson....don't know who played those guitar parts though.
only I love the soundtrack.
#4
Posted 26 November 2003 - 03:51 AM
I think that the grouping who played the chief song "Man of Abiding Sorrow" did virtually of the tracks for the motion picture. Side annotation that moving-picture show is awesome and has a GREAT soundtrack.
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Posted 26 Nov 2003 - 04:09 AM
You probably mean the tune "Hard Time Killing Floor", extremely blue sounding. (That was the tune done in the moving picture by the person they chosen Tommy Johnson. There was a real Tommy Johnson who recorded in the late '20s, but he didn't play in that style.) It was originally recorded by Skip James, a Mississippi bluesman, in the late 1920'. Information technology'south in open up-D minor tuning. I've tabbed the tune in the style of Skip James which is very similar to the movie merely not exactly. I learned how to play information technology many years ago from Bowling Greenish John Cephas, an quondam Virginia bluesman, who'd learned to play it from Skip himself. Robert Johnson (who claimed to be related to Tommy, merely was non) is the bluesman who was said to have sold his soul to the Devil (also the story-line in the movie "Crossroads" with Steve Vai, etc).
Un-plugged is non the same as never-was-plugged-in-to-begin-with.
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#6
Posted 26 November 2003 - 05:10 AM
Hard Fourth dimension Killing Floor Dejection written by Skip James and performed on 'Oh Brother Where Fine art Thou', by Chris Thomas King and was recorded live on the film set. Chris Thomas King by the way is the actor who played 'Tommy Johnson' in the movie.
#7
Posted 26 Nov 2003 - ten:15 AM
QUOTE (dadfad @ Nov 26 2003, 12:09 PM)
Yous probably mean the melody "Difficult Time Killing Flooring", extremely blue sounding. (That was the tune done in the moving picture by the person they called Tommy Johnson. There was a real Tommy Johnson who recorded in the belatedly '20s, but he didn't play in that style.) It was originally recorded by Skip James, a Mississippi bluesman, in the belatedly 1920'. It's in open-D minor tuning. I've tabbed the tune in the style of Skip James which is very similar to the movie but not exactly. I learned how to play it many years ago from Bowling Green John Cephas, an old Virginia bluesman, who'd learned to play it from Skip himself. Robert Johnson (who claimed to be related to Tommy, only was not) is the bluesman who was said to have sold his soul to the Devil (also the story-line in the movie "Crossroads" with Steve Vai, etc).
thank you dadfad, i expected you to know this one
#viii
Posted 26 Nov 2003 - 11:03 AM
No trouble. Yeah, Open-Dm tuning is about as blue every bit it gets. It's a skillful tune, and Chris King did a squeamish task with information technology too. That movie was no Academy Honor Winner for a story-line, but it actually had some squeamish tunes in it.
Un-plugged is non the same equally never-was-plugged-in-to-brainstorm-with.
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When the roll is called up yonder he'll be at that place...
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Posted 06 April 2011 - 07:xx PM
Robert Johnson died at age 29 later recording only 28 songs. In the low era.
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Posted 15 April 2011 - 07:52 PM
love "killin floor dejection". i actually adopt Chris' version
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#11
Posted xvi Apr 2011 - 03:45 AM
Skip also recorded the tune several times in the sixties after his original 1931 sessions recordings. I think the best version he e'er recorded was for Vanguard (1967 I call back) on an LP called "Skip James -Today" which I prefer to his original likewise as his others (more often than not recorded alive... at Newport, other gigs, etc.
His guitar skills had probably actually improved since the thirties and the recording production techniques were far superior to the thirties.
(I call up that recording is also on a later Vanguard re-release compilation CD.)
United nations-plugged is not the aforementioned as never-was-plugged-in-to-begin-with.
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When the roll is called up yonder he'll be there...
#12
Posted 16 Apr 2011 - eleven:07 AM
dont believe ive heard any alternates versions from Skip. i will attempt to detect it
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Posted 23 November 2013 - 02:13 AM
I know it'southward an onetime thread but hopefully this helps.... The guys name I'g real life is Chris rex. He is portraying a dejection musician named Tommy Johnson who was effectually before Robert Johnson.
Source: https://www.guitarzone.com/forum/topic/76829-o-brother-where-art-thou/
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