After years of refusing to submit to traditionalist strictures - resisting the pressures of a record industry that couldn’t accept his streetwise raps and hip-hop samples as a natural progression of the blues –King renewed his career by playing the role on screen that he wouldn’t play in life.Īs traditional country bluesman Tommy Johnson (based on the 1930s composer of “Canned Heat Blues”), the neophyte actor held his own with the likes of George Clooney and Holly Hunter in O Brother, Where Art Thou? - sparking a flurry of screen offers, club dates and concert engagements (including this winter’s Down From The Mountain soundtrack tour of O Brother performers), along with his best album since 1990’s Cry Of The Prophets. The Coen brothers couldn’t have scripted a stranger irony than the musical resurrection of Chris Thomas King.
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