You can be a country artist and sell out Madison Square Garden seven nights in a row, and you go to an urban station and. I think radio stations here are really rigidly segregated. They find themselves building an audience outside of America because music isn't categorized over there. King says, "Some roots musicians that can't get radio play on commercial radio stations.
"We charged, like, 25 cents for everybody to come in, and we had a good ol' time."Īs teenager, King made his first trek to Europe, where he began to get a sense of why so many blues artists - including, eventually, himself - find greater success abroad than at home. "But the trumpet didn't make enough noise for me," he laughs, and King instead focused on the guitar, which he played in his first professional gig. "I think the trumpet was my first kind of formal instrument," says King, "where I really learned to read notes and stuff. It was kind of in the living room, so to speak, and a lot of the older blues veterans allowed me to spend time with 'em."Īs a youth who shared his father's interest in music - "I kind of knew what I wanted to do at a very young age," King states - he quickly discovered it would be easier to spend time with these blues vets if he learned to play. The blues experience and music and atmosphere.
"My dad was a real solid part of the Baton Rouge blues community," King said in a recent phone interview. The 43-year-old's musical journey began at the Louisiana juke joint Tabby's Blues Box, owned and operated by King's father, Tabby Thomas. King's musical accomplishments reveal nothing but soul.
Obviously, King wasn't being typecast in the role. "Well," replies Tommy, " I wasn't usin' it." "For that you sold your everlasting soul?"
"Oh, son," says Tommy's new acquaintance, Delmar, upon learning of the deal. In O Brother, Where Art Thou?, Chris Thomas King plays the young blues musician Tommy Johnson, who sells his soul to the devil for the chance to become a legendary guitar player.
0 kommentar(er)
