Who Played Tommy Johnson in O Brother Where Art Thou
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Posted 25 Nov 2003 - ten:27 PM
hey im sure alot of y'all have seen the movie o blood brother where are thousand, i was wondering what that guys name was, the black one who plays guitar, cause hes a really person
besides, this guitar playing black guy also plays this ane song around the bivouac, i have no idea what the song is simply i know that the whole thing has been recorded cause ive heard it on some tv testify, i would really like to know what the song is called
thank yous
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Posted 26 November 2003 - 12:11 AM
Is it Robert Johnson? I remember in the picture show the black guy says he sold his soul at the crossroads, and if information technology was a real person, Robert Johnson or Robert Jackson or something like that was mentioned to have sold his soul to the devil and then he could play guitar really well.
Of course I could exist wrong. I think I am. 
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Posted 26 November 2003 - 12:22 AM
loved that movie...really yeah, it's SUPPOSED to be Robert Johnson....but in the movie his name was Tommy Johnson....don't know who played those guitar parts though.
but I love the soundtrack.
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Posted 26 November 2003 - 03:51 AM
I call up that the group who played the primary song "Man of Constant Sorrow" did most of the tracks for the movie. Side note that movie is awesome and has a Not bad soundtrack.
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Posted 26 November 2003 - 04:09 AM
You probably mean the melody "Hard Fourth dimension Killing Flooring", extremely bluish sounding. (That was the tune done in the moving picture past the person they called Tommy Johnson. There was a real Tommy Johnson who recorded in the late '20s, but he didn't play in that mode.) It was originally recorded past Skip James, a Mississippi bluesman, in the late 1920'. Information technology's in open up-D minor tuning. I've tabbed the tune in the style of Skip James which is very like to the movie only not exactly. I learned how to play information technology many years ago from Bowling Green John Cephas, an former Virginia bluesman, who'd learned to play it from Skip himself. Robert Johnson (who claimed to exist related to Tommy, but was not) is the bluesman who was said to have sold his soul to the Devil (also the story-line in the flick "Crossroads" with Steve Vai, etc).
Un-plugged is non the same as never-was-plugged-in-to-brainstorm-with.
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Posted 26 November 2003 - 05:10 AM
Hard Time Killing Floor Blues written by Skip James and performed on 'Oh Brother Where Art One thousand', by Chris Thomas King and was recorded live on the film set. Chris Thomas King by the style is the actor who played 'Tommy Johnson' in the movie.
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Posted 26 Nov 2003 - x:15 AM
QUOTE (dadfad @ Nov 26 2003, 12:09 PM)
You lot probably mean the melody "Difficult Time Killing Flooring", extremely blueish sounding. (That was the tune done in the moving picture past the person they called Tommy Johnson. There was a real Tommy Johnson who recorded in the tardily '20s, simply he didn't play in that fashion.) It was originally recorded by Skip James, a Mississippi bluesman, in the late 1920'. Information technology'due south in open up-D pocket-size tuning. I've tabbed the tune in the style of Skip James which is very similar to the movie just not exactly. I learned how to play it many years ago from Bowling Dark-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, simply was non) is the bluesman who was said to have sold his soul to the Devil (also the story-line in the flick "Crossroads" with Steve Vai, etc).
thanks dadfad, i expected you to know this ane
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Posted 26 Nov 2003 - 11:03 AM
No trouble. Aye, Open-Dm tuning is well-nigh as blue as it gets. Information technology'due south a adept tune, and Chris King did a overnice task with it besides. That moving-picture show was no Academy Award Winner for a story-line, but it really had some squeamish tunes in it.
Un-plugged is not the aforementioned equally never-was-plugged-in-to-brainstorm-with.
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Posted 06 Apr 2011 - 07:20 PM
Robert Johnson died at age 29 after recording only 28 songs. In the depression era.
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Posted 15 April 2011 - 07:52 PM
honey "killin floor blues". i actually prefer Chris' version
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Posted xvi April 2011 - 03:45 AM
Skip likewise recorded the tune several times in the sixties afterwards his original 1931 sessions recordings. I think the best version he e'er recorded was for Vanguard (1967 I recall) on an LP called "Skip James -Today" which I adopt to his original too equally his others (by and large recorded live... at Newport, other gigs, etc.
His guitar skills had probably really improved since the thirties and the recording production techniques were far superior to the thirties.
(I think that recording is also on a afterwards Vanguard re-release compilation CD.)
Un-plugged is not the aforementioned equally never-was-plugged-in-to-begin-with.
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Posted xvi April 2011 - xi:07 AM
dont believe ive heard whatever alternates versions from Skip. i will try to find it
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Posted 23 Nov 2013 - 02:thirteen AM
I know it's an quondam thread but hopefully this helps.... The guys name I'm existent life is Chris rex. He is portraying a blues musician named Tommy Johnson who was around before Robert Johnson.
Source: https://www.guitarzone.com/forum/topic/76829-o-brother-where-art-thou/
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