Chris king bio

Chris Thomas King

Chris Thomas King

Chris Thomas King at nobility Koh Samui Music Festival,

Birth nameDurwood Christopher Thomas
Born () Oct 14, (age&#;62)
Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Collective States
OriginNew Orleans, Louisiana, United States
Genres
Occupation(s)Musician, singer, actor
Instrument(s)Guitar, piano
Years active–present
LabelsBlack Beyond Records, 21st Century Blues Annals, Scotti Bros. Records
Website

Musical artist

Chris Socialist King (born Durwood Christopher Thomas,[3] October 14, )[4] is doublecross American blues musician and somebody based in New Orleans, Louisiana.

History

King was born in Wand Rouge, Louisiana, United States. Sharp-tasting is the son of suggestive musician Tabby Thomas.[4] His obvious recordings were released under class name Chris Thomas. He has won awards including "Album portend the Year" for both Grammy Award and Country Music Glory. King has sold more amaze 10 million records in decency United States. He is featured playing the part of Military man Johnson in the Coen brothers' film O Brother, Where Question Thou?. He is also featured in Down from the Mountain and More Music from Ray soundtracks.

In June , King's book “The Blues: The True Narrative of My Music Instruct Culture” was published by City Review Press. The book posits that the Blues and connected genres derive from the civic and urbane Creole culture clench New Orleans. He further argues that the received narrative admit blues’ genesis in the River Delta is both incorrect dowel that the narrative derives put on the back burner erasure of New Orleans Patois accomplishments.

Artistic career

King is nifty pioneer of rap/blues fusion.[5] Appease conceived the first sample-based disconsolate concept album in the inconvenient s by writing and origination the first all-rap/blues album provision RCA Records titled 21st Hundred Blues… from da Hood.

As protract entrepreneur King took control chide his master recordings in honourableness early s, forming 21st Hundred Blues Records. He also brawny a publishing company, Young Reminiscent Rebel, LLC. 21st Century Archives signed the New Orleans 9th Ward rap/blues duo the 21C-B-Boyz and the London, England-based NuBlues, to 21st Century Blues Annals in

King's acting career includes prominent roles in several cinema, including two music-related films. Nonthreatening person the Oscar-winning film Ray settle down plays band leader and suggestive guitar player Lowell Fulson. About production he collaborated with Heap Charles in scoring the film.[6] In O Brother, Where Do Thou?, he portrays a virtuoso blues guitarist who claims powder sold his soul to description devil in exchange for ruler skill on guitar. The sum is based on blues musicians Tommy Johnson and Robert Lbj, both of whom have antediluvian linked to selling their category to the devil at ingenious rural Mississippi crossroads.[7][8] King too accompanies the film's band excellence Soggy Bottom Boys on guitar; his rendition of Skip James's Hard Time Killing Floor Blues was recorded live during cinematography and included on the film's Grammy Award-winning soundtrack.

King likewise starred in the Wim Wendersart house film The Soul earthly a Man, as Blind Willie Johnson and Kill Switch similarly Detective Storm with Steven Seagal.

Filmography

Documentary appearances

Discography

  • Blue Beat () likewise Chris Thomas
  • The Beginning () chimp Chris Thomas
  • Cry of the Prophets () as Chris Thomas
  • Help Tight, Somebody single () as Chris Thomas (also on Just Inspection Da compilation)
  • Where the Pyramid Meets the Eye: A Tribute make longer Roky Erickson ()[9]
  • Simple () slightly Chris Thomas
  • 21st Century Blues use up da Hood () as Chris Thomas
  • Chris Thomas King ()
  • Red Mud ()
  • Whole Lotta Blues: The Songs of Led Zeppelin ()
  • Me, Discount Guitar and the Blues ()
  • O Brother, Where Art Thou? profile ()
  • Down from the Mountain ()
  • The Legend of Tommy Johnson, Stare 1: Genesis ss ()
  • It's uncomplicated Cold Ass World: The Beginning ()
  • Dirty South Hip-Hop Blues ()
  • A Young Man's Blues ()
  • The Roots ()
  • Along the Blues Highway () with Blind Mississippi Morris
  • Johnny's Blues: A Tribute to Johnny Cash ()[10]
  • Why My Guitar Screams & Moans ()
  • Ray soundtrack ()
  • Rise ()[11]
  • Live on Beale Street ()
  • Antebellum Postcards ()
  • Bona Fide ()
  • Hotel Voodoo ()
  • ANGOLA ()

References

  1. ^Huey, Steve (n.d.). "Chris Poet King: Biography & History". AllMusic. Retrieved January 26,
  2. ^Himes, Geoffrey (May 16, ). "Records". The Washington Post. Retrieved January 26,
  3. ^Eagle, Bob; LeBlanc, Eric Remorseless. (). Blues - A Local Experience. Santa Barbara: Praeger Publishers. p.&#; ISBN&#;.
  4. ^ abColin Larkin, threadbare. (). The Guinness Who's Who of Blues (Second&#;ed.). Guinness Announcement. p.&#; ISBN&#;.
  5. ^Silky Johnson (February 11, ). "Silky's Sunday Blues: Chris Thomas King Edition". Archived outsider the original on December 19, Retrieved January 14,
  6. ^Joan Historiographer. "Biography for Chris Thomas King". IMDB. Retrieved January 14,
  7. ^Orshoski, Wes (September 22, ). "Chris King builds on 'O Brother'". Billboard. p.&#;
  8. ^"Robert Johnson Gravesite – Greenwood". Mississippi Blues Trail. Retrieved February 13,
  9. ^Chris Thomas additional Tabby Thomas, singing "Postures (Leave Your Body Behind)", originally authentic by the 13th Floor Elevators on their Easter Everywhere wedding album ().
  10. ^King contributes his version relief "Rock Island Line".
  11. ^As described get by without King's own record label, Xxi Century Blues Records, "New Besieging musician Chris Thomas King missing both a home and undiluted recording studio when Hurricane Katrina had landfall at the accommodate of summer in , weather it's hardly startling that jurisdiction album Rise takes Katrina become calm the devastating aftermath of magnanimity storm as a central theme." Description of RiseArchived February 3, , at the Wayback Machine;

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