[NEohioPAL]Loudon Wainwright III, Chris Thomas King
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For further info or interview request:
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Please contact Tom Simpson @ 330-672-8012 to coordinate
Two major stars at The Kent Stage!
The Kent Stage is located at 175 East Main Street in downtown Kent, Ohio. There is FREE parking behind the theater and on all city streets. Advance tickets are available at Woodsy's Music and Spin-More Records in Kent, Little Mountain Music in Middlefield at www.kentstage.org or at 330-677-5005. Tickets will also be available at the door. Doors open one hour before event time. If you have any questions, please call 330-677-5005.
LOUDON
WAINWRIGHT III
Thursday, June 9
7:30 PM
>From "Dead Skunk" to multiple Grammy nominations, to acting in "The Aviator", Loudon Wainwright III has had a wonderful career spanning over thirty years. Loudon grew up in the town of Bedford in wealthy Westchester County north of New York City, the son of Loudon S. Wainwright, Jr., a writer and editor at Life magazine, and a direct descendant of colonial governor Peter Stuyvesant. Wainwright became a folk singer/songwriter in the late '60s, singing humorous and nakedly honest autobiographical songs. Signed to Atlantic Records, he recorded Album I (1970) and Album II (1971), accompanying himself on acoustic guitar, before switching to Columbia Records, for which he made the folk-rock Album III (1972), which featured the Top 40 novelty hit "Dead Skunk." Attempted Mustache (1973) and the half-live Unrequited (Feb. 1975) did not continue that commercial success, though Wainwright's humor and engaging stage persona made him a cult figure and a concert favorite. Meanwhile, his songs
were recorded by others, notably Kate (his wife, since divorced) and Anna McGarrigle, Johnny Cash, and Wainwright appeared in the off-Broadway show Pump Boys and Dinettes and played a featured role on the successful M*A*S*H television series. He moved to Arista Records for T Shirt (May 1976) and Final Exam (1978), on which he was backed by a rock band, but departed the major labels for a more appropriate home on the folk-based indie Rounder for A Live 0ne (1980) and Fame and Wealth (1983). Wainwright began to gain more notice in England than in the U.S., and he moved to London in 1985. I'm Alright (1985) and More Love Songs (1986) were co-produced by British singer/guitarist Richard Thompson. Therapy (1989) found Wainwright on the major label-distributed Silvertone imprint and back living in the U.S., and he signed to Virgin Records' Charisma subsidiary for History (Sept. 1992) and the live Career Moves (July. 1993). Grown Man, his 15th album, was released in 1995, followed three
years later by Little Ship. In 1999, there appeared a collection of topical, humorous songs Wainwright had been composing since the late '80s for National Public Radio, titled Social Studies; the following year, The BBC Sessions collected favorites and new compositions. His latest release is "Here Come the Choppers" on Sovereign Artists. Loudon will be appearing on a nationwide-radio broadcast of "World Cafe" on May 30th. Additionally, Loudon is the father of Rufus, Martha and Sloan Wainwright.
A recent review:
Loudon Wainwright III
Queen Elizabeth Hall, London
Adam Sweeting
Thursday April 28, 2005
The Guardian
The Wainwright kids have been hogging the limelight recently, but Pops Loudon is back to remind everyone where they heard it first. They're billing him as "American songwriting legend" on the promotional material, and for once the term verges on understatement.
There's no more endangered a species than the wholly original songwriter, and to watch Wainwright in action is to catch a little fragment of history on the hoof. The only conventional aspects of his work are that he uses a traditional six-string guitar and a piano with the regular number of keys on it, but where another man's work might end, that's exactly where Loudon's begins.
His songs tiptoe audaciously along the boundaries between slapstick and tragedy, and prove time and again that nothing is more serious than comedy. He opens with the brilliant My Biggest Fan, from his new album Here Come the Choppers. It's based on an encounter with a real-life superfan, though whether the latter is really the 400 pound behemoth depicted in the lyric ("so large he's a one-man entourage") only Wainwright would know. The piece concludes with a classic display of Wainwrightian self-deflation, as his admirer admits that Loudon is in fact only his third-favourite artist after Bob Dylan and Neil Young.
In a no-flab 90 minutes, Wainwright voyages across a breadth of subject matter that most novelists couldn't cope with. He sings about memory and regret, sex and revenge, and being young and growing old. The Morgue is a gleeful gloat over the corpse of the lover who spurned him, and The Man Who Couldn't Cry a surreal biblical parable.
Among several songs about parents and grandparents, the ones about his father strike deepest. Surviving Twin describes the competitive battles he fought with his father when he was alive, and the vivid kinship he feels after his death. Sometimes I Forget is as fine a song as anybody has written about the way bereavement stops time, and leaves you feeling as if you're suspended in the act of stepping off a cliff. Rufus and
Martha, follow that.
Loudon's recordings:
Loudon Wainwright III (1970)
Album II (1971)
Album III (1972)
Attempted Mustache (1973)
Unrequited (1975)
T Shirt (1976)
Final Exam (1978)
A Live One (1979)
Fame and Wealth (1983)
I'm Alright (1985)
More Love Songs (1986)
Therapy (1989)
Fame and Wealth / I'm Alright (1991)
History (1992)
Career Moves (1993)
One Man Guy: The Best of Loudon Wainwright III 1982-1986 (1994)
Grown Man (1995)
Little Ship (1997)
BBC Sessions (1998)
Social Studies (1999)
Last Man on Earth (2001)
So Damn Happy (2003)
Here Come the Choppers (2005)
Loudon on the big and little screen.
M*A*S*H (TV, 1974-1975)
Spinal Tap Pilot (TV, late 1970s)
The Slugger's Wife (Film, 1985)
Jacknife (Film, 1989)
Soldier, Soldier (TV, c.1992)
28 Days (Spring, 2000)
Undeclared (TV, 2001-2002)
Ally McBeal (TV, 2002)
Grounded for Life (TV, 2003)
Big Fish (December, 2003)
The Aviator (November, 2004)
Elizabethtown (2005)
Advance discount tickets: $20.00
Day of Show: $25.00
CHRIS THOMAS KING
Plus VASTI JACKSON
Saturday, July 23
8:00 PM
>From "Oh Brother, Where Art Thou" to The Kent Stage
New Orleans blues artist Chris Thomas King is a triple threat: musician, actor and business entrepreneur but if you look at all his talents, he is really much more than that. As a musician he plays electric guitar, acoustic guitar, steel guitar, bass guitar, dobro, piano, Fender Rhodes, Hammond B-3 organ, drums and he sings! In the studio he is a producer, an arranger and an engineer. As an actor he has made his mark in films and TV. King made his film debut in the 2000 hit "Oh Brother Where Art Thou" starring George Clooney and John Goodman. He played Tommy Johnson, the guitar player in the Soggy Bottom Boys. This role lead to a national tour featuring: Alison Krause and Union Station, Ralph Stanley, John Hartford, T-Bone Burnett, The Cox Family, Gillian Welsh, Emmy Lou Harris and more. And as business entrepreneur he has spearheaded a record label, based in his home town of New Orleans, reflecting his own artistic sensibilities as well as signing artists with a compatible
point of view.
Just about all of King’s talents were showcased this fall. In October 2004 King will release his new CD, “Why My Guitar Screams and Moans.” King produced, wrote, arranged, engineered and performed on all the instruments (with the exception of the horn section) for this new project. As an actor King will be featured as the legendary blues guitarist Lowell Fulson in the long awaited bio-pic of the life of Ray Charles, “Ray.” Filmed in Louisiana, “Ray” was released by Universal Pictures in October. And last, in September, 21st Century Blues Records, King’s record label, will release “Dreams of a Blues Man” by the British blues/rock group Nublues.
Chris Thomas King is now one of most recognized and successful blues artist of his generation. The multi Grammy award winning musician and actor grew up as a child-prodigy guitarist learning the blues at the feet of some of the music’s masters at the Baton Rouge, Louisiana club Tabby’s Blues Box, owned by his father, Rockin’ Tabby Thomas. King has written a screenplay based on his life story, also titled “Why My Guitar Screams and Moans,” currently being shopped to publishers and television networks.
King is a true innovator—his music is authentic blues; it is contemporary blues. His performances and recordings bridge the past with the present and future, bringing blues into the digital age. As Willie Dixon once said, “the blues is the root and everything else is the fruits" King’ music brings the fruits back home.
NEW CD, “WHY MY GUITAR SCREAMS AND MOANS”
King’s new CD, “Why My Guitar Screams & Moans,” features 11 original tracks and a cover of the Prince classic Kiss. On this project Chris showcases his prowess on the electric guitar; starting with the hard driving opening number, Starr and followed by the soulful urban ballad Legend. King’s vocals shine on the heartfelt tribute, A Song for Momma which is followed by the (almost) traditional blues King Snake. No one knows how to have fun like folks from New Orleans and that’s evident on both Juke Joint Lover and Louisiana Party—rockin’ dancin’ hip shakin’ numbers. Come Home Tonight finds King in a romantic mood and Down is classic blues at it’s best. The final 3 tracks Wicked, The Scream and Cracked provide ample justification for the title of his project.
FILM AND TV CAREER
King’s film career started with the role of Tommy Johnson in the phenomenally successful motion picture, tour and soundtrack, O Brother, Where Art Thou? The soundtrack, which reached #1 on the Billboard pop charts, has sold more than seven million copies in the U.S. King followed his success in O Brother with the role of Blind Willie Johnson in Wim Wenders’ feature film The Soul of a Man, which debuted at the Cannes Film Festival and aired on PBS TV as part of Martin Scorsese Presents the Blues, during 2003s ‘The Year of the Blues’ tributes and activities. On October 29, 2004 movie goers will see King on the silver screen once again in the Ray Charles biopic ‘Ray” (Universal Pictures), directed by Taylor Hackford and starring Jamie Foxx as Charles. Chris Thomas King plays Lowell Fulson (with whom King accompanied on tour as a teenager), and in this role, King became one of the last artists to record with the great Ray Charles. Hackford has said of King, "There are few artists
working in America today that possess as varied an arsenal of talent as Chris Thomas King: accomplished singer, consummate guitar player, and sensitive actor." And added, “Having watched Chris perform as a child prodigy at his father's blues club in Baton Rouge, I didn't immediately think of him for the role of Lowell Fulson. I still had this image of him as a teenager. Obviously, teenagers grow up and become men. When I met Chris again I realized that he'd be perfect to play the Lowell whose band featured the young Ray Charles in the early 1950s. I don't think anyone else could have delivered the same combination of high level talent for this role: Chris is a righteous blues singer and a sensitive actor. He became Lowell Fulson.”
21ST CENTURY BLUES RECORDS
Utilizing the public platform resulting from the phenomenal success of "O Brother," King was able to bring wider attention to his own record label, 21st Century Blues Records. King had started the label as a forum for his own work and that of other kindred artists. Based out of New Orleans, where King lives, it parallels such other ventures emanating out of the Louisiana scene as Cash Money Records and Master P’s No Limit Records.
MORE ON CHRIS THOMAS KING
King began playing professionally at the age of nine at his father’s Baton Rouge club, Tabby’s Blues Box. By his early teens, he was rubbing shoulders with such legends as Silas Hogan, Willie Dixon, Lowell Fulson and Buddy Guy, many of whom encouraged King to develop his own musical path based on his generation’s music. At the same time, King absorbed and played rock, soul, funk and the emerging urban style of hip-hop. "We didn’t go to parties and listen to Skip James," he says of his youth. "Instead, we might have listened to Rick James." The influence of such hip-hop pioneers as Run-D.M.C., Public Enemy and N.W.A. helped validate King’s belief that melding hip-hop and the blues was a natural progression.
While still in his teens, King released his first album in 1986 on the influential roots music label Arhoolie Records, writing, playing and arranging all the music himself. Titled “The Beginning” and recently re-released on CD under King’s originally intended title, “It’s A Cold Ass World,” the album prompted Rolling Stone to dub King "the heir to Jimi Hendrix and Howling Wolf."
King migrated to Austin, Texas, releasing more acclaimed albums like 1990’s “Cry Of The Prophets” and making his national TV debut on "The David Letterman Show." Hailed as a next big thing, King nonetheless encountered resistance from the gatekeepers in both the blues and hip-hop worlds to the sound he was developing that included electric guitar, rapping and scratching. So he headed to Europe with the hope of more receptive audiences.
"I felt that if I had compromised my musical vision, and not added hip-hop and the ghetto stories that I lived and saw, my music wouldn’t be my blues and authentic to my experience," explains King. He landed in London, homeless, penniless and sleeping in parks. Eventually settling in Copenhagen, King finally completed the album he’d been struggling for some time to record, “21st Century Blues…From Da Hood.” The 1994 release established King as a star in Europe, and prompted Time Magazine to declare it, "the most ambitious release so far this year."
King eventually returned to America and set up his 21st Century Blues studio and label in New Orleans. Cast by the Coen Brothers in "O Brother," King recorded his musical contribution "Hard Time Killing Floor Blues" as the only live number in the movie. In his trailer on the film set, King also wrote a wealth of material in the Tommy Johnson vein. One of those songs, "John Law Burned Down The Liquor Sto’," was featured in the "Down From The Mountain" concert film and soundtrack album, which has sold over 500,000 copies in the U.S. Others became part of King’s album paying tribute to the character he played, titled “The Legend of Tommy Johnson, Act 1: Genesis 1900’s-1990’s.”
Meanwhile King continued touring with the "Down From The Mountain" tour (which grossed over 20 million dollars in 2002) to celebrate his blues heritage. "I loved having an opportunity to introduce millions of fans to my blues roots," says King.
Now, as one of the most recognized blues musician in the world King is defining today’s blues for the modern urban audience. "When I hear Tommy Johnson or any blues artist I respect from another era, I learn a lot about the social conditions of the day — the culture and where we were as Americans at that particular time," says King. "If you really want to be like Tommy Johnson, I think you have to live in your time and be true to your experience. Because that’s what he did."
Chris Thomas King’s Selected Awards and Accomplishments:
#1 Album on the Billboard Pop charts for “O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Multi - Grammy“ Award winner including “Album Of The Year” for “O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Country Music Award winner “Album Of The Year” for “O Brother, Where Art Thou?”
Bluegrass Music Awards “ Album Of The Year” for “Down From The Mountain.”
O Brother, Where Art Thou? Has sold more than seven million records in the United States.
Down From the Mountain is Certified Gold with sales of more than five hundred thousand in the US.
Co-Headlined sold out concerts at Carnegie Hall and Radio City Music Hall.
Co-Headlined the Down From The Mountain tour, which grossed more than 20 million dollars and drew over 250,000 people in sold-out arenas across America.
Voted one of the “Entertainers Of The Year” by Entertainment Weekly.
The Press Are Talking About Chris Thomas King:
“His songs boast a crunching blues beat, brash guitars and howling harmonica solos.”-Time Magazine
”When this modern day bluesman gets to the crossroads, he doesn’t find the devil but rather Robert Johnson on one side and Master P on the other, both inviting him to set up shop.”-Rolling Stone
“…an audacious, exciting blend of contemporary hip-hop and traditional blues…”-Billboard Magazine
”The…guitarist heads into uncharted territory …ambitiously blending blues and rock with rap.”-Vibe
”It is … palpably clear that he is bringing his music up from deep, real places in his heart, that he believes every word he sings and every note he plays.”-The Boston Globe
”He is … a consummate bluesman, articulate in the many different languages, tropes and accents that characterize this rich and endlessly evolving art form.”-Living Blues Magazine
”Chris Thomas King is in the vanguard of today’s Blues arguably the great-grandfather of American popular music. But he doesn’t just sing and play guitar. He raps over turntable scratches and slide guitar, tortured strings, pulled and hammered.”-The Los Angeles Daily News
VASTI JACKSON
>From humble beginnings in McComb, Mississippi to the Stages and recording studios of the world, Vasti shares his God given talent, artistry and love of music with an enthusiasm and energy that's as strong as life itself. He is the genuine article, The indigenous music of Mississippi personified in the spirit and the flesh be it Blues, Gospel or Jazz, Vasti delivers with burning passion and true professionalism.
Guitarist, songwriter and producer Vasti Jackson may well be the busiest musician in Mississippi. In the last several years, the Hattiesburg resident has appeared in several feature films, a documentary and a TV show, co-produced a Grammy-nominated album, and worked as a session man and road musician for numerous artists. Jackson also performs with his own band.
Advance discount tickets: $18.00
Day of Show: $23.00
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<DIV><STRONG><FONT color=#111111>The Kent Stage is located at 175 East Main Street in downtown Kent, Ohio. There is FREE parking behind the theater and on all city streets. </FONT><FONT color=#8000ff>Advance tickets are available at Woodsy's Music and Spin-More Records in Kent, Little Mountain Music in Middlefield at </FONT></STRONG><A href="http://www.kentstage.org/" target=_blank><FONT color=#8000ff><STRONG>www.kentstage.org</STRONG></FONT></A><FONT color=#111111><FONT size=3><STRONG><FONT color=#0000bf><FONT color=#8000ff> or at 330-677-5005.</FONT> </FONT><FONT color=#00007f>Tickets will also be available at the door.</FONT> Doors open one hour before event time. If you have any questions, please call 330-677-5005.</STRONG></FONT></FONT></DIV>
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<P align=left><B><FONT color=#0000ff size=7>LOUDON <BR>WAINWRIGHT III <FONT face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif"><I></I></FONT><BR></FONT></B></P>
<P align=left><B>Thursday, June 9<BR>7:30 PM</B></P>
<P align=left>From "Dead Skunk" to multiple Grammy nominations, to acting in "The Aviator", Loudon Wainwright III has had a wonderful career spanning over thirty years. Loudon grew up in the town of Bedford in wealthy Westchester County north of New York City, the son of Loudon S. Wainwright, Jr., a writer and editor at Life magazine, and a direct descendant of colonial governor Peter Stuyvesant. Wainwright became a folk singer/songwriter in the late '60s, singing humorous and nakedly honest autobiographical songs. Signed to Atlantic Records, he recorded Album I (1970) and Album II (1971), accompanying himself on acoustic guitar, before switching to Columbia Records, for which he made the folk-rock Album III (1972), which featured the Top 40 novelty hit<STRONG> </STRONG>"Dead Skunk." Attempted Mustache (1973) and the half-live Unrequited (Feb. 1975) did not continue that commercial success, though Wainwright's humor and engaging stage persona made him a cult
figure and a concert favorite. Meanwhile, his songs were recorded by others, notably Kate (his wife, since divorced) and Anna McGarrigle, Johnny Cash, and Wainwright appeared in the off-Broadway show Pump Boys and Dinettes and played a featured role on the successful M*A*S*H television series. He moved to Arista Records for T Shirt (May 1976) and Final Exam (1978), on which he was backed by a rock band, but departed the major labels for a more appropriate home on the folk-based indie Rounder for A Live 0ne (1980) and Fame and Wealth (1983). Wainwright began to gain more notice in England than in the U.S., and he moved to London in 1985. I'm Alright (1985) and More Love Songs (1986) were co-produced by British singer/guitarist Richard Thompson. Therapy (1989) found Wainwright on the major label-distributed Silvertone imprint and back living in the U.S., and he signed to Virgin Records' Charisma subsidiary for History (Sept. 1992) and the live Career Moves (July. 1993). Grown Man, his
15th album, was released in 1995, followed three years later by Little Ship. In 1999, there appeared a collection of topical, humorous songs Wainwright had been composing since the late '80s for National Public Radio, titled Social Studies; the following year, The BBC Sessions collected favorites and new compositions. His latest release is "Here Come the Choppers" on Sovereign Artists. Loudon will be appearing on a nationwide-radio broadcast of "World Cafe" on May 30th. Additionally, Loudon is the father of Rufus, Martha and Sloan Wainwright. </P><STRONG><FONT size=6>
<P align=left><FONT size=6>A recent review:</FONT></P>
<P align=left><STRONG><FONT size=5>Loudon Wainwright III</FONT></STRONG> <BR><FONT face=arial,helvetica,sans-serif size=3>Queen Elizabeth Hall, London <IMG height=12 alt=***** src="http://image.guardian.co.uk/stars/guardian5.gif" width=59></FONT><BR><FONT face=Geneva,Arial,sans-serif size=2><B>Adam Sweeting<BR>Thursday April 28, 2005<BR><A href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/"><FONT color=#333399>The Guardian</FONT></A></B> <BR><BR></FONT>
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<TD><FONT face=Geneva,Arial,sans-serif size=1> </FONT></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><FONT face=Geneva,Arial,sans-serif size=2>The Wainwright kids have been hogging the limelight recently, but Pops Loudon is back to remind everyone where they heard it first. They're billing him as "American songwriting legend" on the promotional material, and for once the term verges on understatement. </P>
<P>There's no more endangered a species than the wholly original songwriter, and to watch Wainwright in action is to catch a little fragment of history on the hoof. The only conventional aspects of his work are that he uses a traditional six-string guitar and a piano with the regular number of keys on it, but where another man's work might end, that's exactly where Loudon's begins.
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<DIV class=mpu_continue>His songs tiptoe audaciously along the boundaries between slapstick and tragedy, and prove time and again that nothing is more serious than comedy. He opens with the brilliant My Biggest Fan, from his new album Here Come the Choppers. It's based on an encounter with a real-life superfan, though whether the latter is really the 400 pound behemoth depicted in the lyric ("so large he's a one-man entourage") only Wainwright would know. The piece concludes with a classic display of Wainwrightian self-deflation, as his admirer admits that Loudon is in fact only his third-favourite artist after Bob Dylan and Neil Young. </DIV></DIV>
<P>In a no-flab 90 minutes, Wainwright voyages across a breadth of subject matter that most novelists couldn't cope with. He sings about memory and regret, sex and revenge, and being young and growing old. The Morgue is a gleeful gloat over the corpse of the lover who spurned him, and The Man Who Couldn't Cry a surreal biblical parable.
<P>Among several songs about parents and grandparents, the ones about his father strike deepest. Surviving Twin describes the competitive battles he fought with his father when he was alive, and the vivid kinship he feels after his death. Sometimes I Forget is as fine a song as anybody has written about the way bereavement stops time, and leaves you feeling as if you're suspended in the act of stepping off a cliff. Rufus and <BR>Martha, follow that.</FONT> </FONT></STRONG></P>
<P align=left><STRONG><FONT size=6>Loudon's recordings:<BR></FONT></P>
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<TD><FONT face="arial,helvetica,sans serif"><A href="http://www.lwiii.com/lwdisco.html#album1"><STRONG><FONT size=2>Loudon Wainwright III (1970)</FONT></STRONG></A><BR><A href="http://www.lwiii.com/lwdisco.html#album2"><STRONG><FONT size=2>Album II (1971)</FONT></STRONG></A><BR><A href="http://www.lwiii.com/lwdisco.html#album3"><STRONG><FONT size=2>Album III (1972)</FONT></STRONG></A><BR><A href="http://www.lwiii.com/lwdisco.html#attempt"><STRONG><FONT size=2>Attempted Mustache (1973)</FONT></STRONG></A><BR><A href="http://www.lwiii.com/lwdisco.html#unreq"><STRONG><FONT size=2>Unrequited (1975)</FONT></STRONG></A><BR><A href="http://www.lwiii.com/lwdisco.html#tshirt"><STRONG><FONT size=2>T Shirt (1976)</FONT></STRONG></A><BR><A href="http://www.lwiii.com/lwdisco.html#finalex"><STRONG><FONT size=2>Final Exam (1978)</FONT></STRONG></A><BR><A href="http://www.lwiii.com/lwdisco.html#liveone"><STRONG><FONT size=2>A Live One (1979)</FONT></STRONG></A><BR><A
href="http://www.lwiii.com/lwdisco.html#famew"><STRONG><FONT size=2>Fame and Wealth (1983)</FONT></STRONG></A><BR><A href="http://www.lwiii.com/lwdisco.html#alright"><STRONG><FONT size=2>I'm Alright (1985)</FONT></STRONG></A><BR><A href="http://www.lwiii.com/lwdisco.html#morelov"><STRONG><FONT size=2>More Love Songs (1986)</FONT></STRONG></A><BR><A href="http://www.lwiii.com/lwdisco.html#therapy"><STRONG><FONT size=2>Therapy (1989)</FONT></STRONG></A><BR><A href="http://www.lwiii.com/lwdisco.html#famalr"><STRONG><FONT size=2>Fame and Wealth / I'm Alright (1991)</FONT></STRONG></A><BR><A href="http://www.lwiii.com/lwdisco.html#history"><STRONG><FONT size=2>History (1992)</FONT></STRONG></A><BR><A href="http://www.lwiii.com/lwdisco.html#career"><STRONG><FONT size=2>Career Moves (1993)</FONT></STRONG></A><BR><A href="http://www.lwiii.com/lwdisco.html#onemang"><STRONG><FONT size=2>One Man Guy: The Best of Loudon Wainwright III 1982-1986 (1994)</FONT></STRONG></A><BR><A
href="http://www.lwiii.com/lwdisco.html#grown"><STRONG><FONT size=2>Grown Man (1995)</FONT></STRONG></A><BR><A href="http://www.lwiii.com/lwdisco.html#lship"><STRONG><FONT size=2>Little Ship (1997)</FONT></STRONG></A><BR><A href="http://www.lwiii.com/lwdisco.html#bbcsess"><STRONG><FONT size=2>BBC Sessions (1998)</FONT></STRONG></A><BR><A href="http://www.lwiii.com/lwdisco.html#socialstudies"><STRONG><FONT size=2>Social Studies (1999)</FONT></STRONG></A><BR><A href="http://www.lwiii.com/lwdisco.html#lastman"><STRONG><FONT size=2>Last Man on Earth (2001)</FONT></STRONG></A><BR><A href="http://www.lwiii.com/lwdisco.html#sodamnhappy"><STRONG><FONT size=2>So Damn Happy (2003)</FONT></STRONG></A><BR><A href="http://www.lwiii.com/lwdisco.html#choppers"><STRONG><FONT size=2>Here Come the Choppers (2005)</FONT></STRONG></A><BR></FONT></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></P></STRONG>
<P align=left><BR><STRONG><BR><FONT size=6>Loudon on the big and little screen.</FONT></STRONG></P>
<P align=left><A href="http://www.lwiii.com/lwacting.html#mash"><STRONG>M*A*S*H (TV, 1974-1975)</STRONG></A><BR><A href="http://www.lwiii.com/lwacting.html#spinaltap"><STRONG><I>Spinal Tap</I> Pilot (TV, late 1970s)</STRONG></A><BR><A href="http://www.lwiii.com/lwacting.html#slugg"><STRONG>The Slugger's Wife (Film, 1985)</STRONG></A><BR><A href="http://www.lwiii.com/lwacting.html#jknife"><STRONG>Jacknife (Film, 1989)</STRONG></A><BR><A href="http://www.lwiii.com/lwacting.html#soldier"><STRONG>Soldier, Soldier (TV, c.1992)</STRONG></A><BR><A href="http://www.lwiii.com/lwacting.html#28days"><STRONG>28 Days (Spring, 2000)</STRONG></A><BR><A href="http://www.lwiii.com/lwacting.html#undeclared"><STRONG>Undeclared (TV, 2001-2002)</STRONG></A><BR><A href="http://www.lwiii.com/lwacting.html#allymcbeal"><STRONG>Ally McBeal (TV, 2002)</STRONG></A><BR><A href="http://www.lwiii.com/lwacting.html#groundedforlife"><STRONG>Grounded for Life (TV, 2003)</STRONG></A><BR><A
href="http://www.lwiii.com/lwacting.html#bigfish"><STRONG>Big Fish (December, 2003)</STRONG></A><BR><A href="http://www.lwiii.com/lwacting.html#aviator"><STRONG>The Aviator (November, 2004)</STRONG></A><BR><A href="http://www.lwiii.com/lwacting.html#elizabethtown"><STRONG>Elizabethtown (2005)</STRONG></A></P>
<P align=left><BR><FONT size=4><B><FONT color=#990000>Advance discount tickets: $20.00<BR></FONT></B><B>Day of Show: $25.00</B></FONT></P>
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<P align=left><B><FONT size=+3><FONT color=#0000ff size=7>CHRIS THOMAS KING</FONT> <BR></FONT><FONT size=4>Plus VASTI JACKSON <FONT face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif" color=#ff00cc><I></I></FONT><BR></FONT></B></P>
<P align=left><B>Saturday, July 23<BR>8:00 PM</B></P>
<P align=left><STRONG><FONT color=#0000ff size=3>From "Oh Brother, Where Art Thou" to The Kent Stage</FONT></STRONG></P>
<P align=left>New Orleans blues artist Chris Thomas King is a triple threat: musician, actor and business entrepreneur but if you look at all his talents, he is really much more than that. As a musician he plays electric guitar, acoustic guitar, steel guitar, bass guitar, dobro, piano, Fender Rhodes, Hammond B-3 organ, drums and he sings! In the studio he is a producer, an arranger and an engineer. As an actor he has made his mark in films and TV. King made his film debut in the 2000 hit <STRONG>"Oh Brother Where Art Thou"</STRONG> starring George Clooney and John Goodman. He played Tommy Johnson, the guitar player in the Soggy Bottom Boys. This role lead to a national tour featuring: Alison Krause and Union Station, Ralph Stanley, John Hartford, T-Bone Burnett, The Cox Family, Gillian Welsh, Emmy Lou Harris and more. And as business entrepreneur he has spearheaded a record label, based in his home town of New Orleans, reflecting his own artistic
sensibilities as well as signing artists with a compatible point of view. </P>
<P align=left>Just about all of King’s talents were showcased this fall. In October 2004 King will release his new CD, <STRONG>“Why My Guitar Screams and Moans.”</STRONG> King produced, wrote, arranged, engineered and performed on all the instruments (with the exception of the horn section) for this new project. <STRONG>As an</STRONG> <STRONG>actor King will be featured as the legendary blues guitarist Lowell Fulson in the long awaited bio-pic of the life of Ray Charles, “Ray.”</STRONG> Filmed in Louisiana, “Ray” was released by Universal Pictures in October. And last, in September, 21st Century Blues Records, King’s record label, will release “Dreams of a Blues Man” by the British blues/rock group Nublues. <BR><BR><STRONG>Chris Thomas King is now one of most recognized and successful blues artist of his generation. The multi Grammy award winning musician and actor grew up as a child-prodigy guitarist learning the blues at the feet of some of the music’s masters at
the Baton Rouge, Louisiana club Tabby’s Blues Box, owned by his father, Rockin’ Tabby Thomas.</STRONG> King has written a screenplay based on his life story, also titled “Why My Guitar Screams and Moans,” currently being shopped to publishers and television networks.<BR><BR>King is a true innovator—his music is authentic blues; it is contemporary blues. His performances and recordings bridge the past with the present and future, bringing blues into the digital age. As Willie Dixon once said, “the blues is the root and everything else is the fruits" King’ music brings the fruits back home. <BR><BR><STRONG>NEW CD, “WHY MY GUITAR SCREAMS AND MOANS”</STRONG><BR>King’s new CD, “Why My Guitar Screams & Moans,” features 11 original tracks and a cover of the Prince classic Kiss. On this project Chris showcases his prowess on the electric guitar; starting with the hard driving opening number, Starr and followed by the soulful urban ballad Legend.
King’s vocals shine on the heartfelt tribute, A Song for Momma which is followed by the (almost) traditional blues King Snake. No one knows how to have fun like folks from New Orleans and that’s evident on both Juke Joint Lover and Louisiana Party—rockin’ dancin’ hip shakin’ numbers. Come Home Tonight finds King in a romantic mood and Down is classic blues at it’s best. The final 3 tracks Wicked, The Scream and Cracked provide ample justification for the title of his project.<BR><BR><BR><STRONG>FILM AND TV CAREER</STRONG><BR>King’s film career started with the role of<STRONG> Tommy Johnson in the phenomenally successful motion picture, tour and soundtrack, O Brother, Where Art Thou? The soundtrack, which reached #1 on the Billboard pop charts, has sold more than seven million copies in the U.S.</STRONG> King followed his success in O Brother with the role of <STRONG>Blind Willie Johnson in Wim Wenders’ feature film The Soul of a Man,</STRONG> which
debuted at the Cannes Film Festival and aired on <STRONG>PBS TV as part of Martin Scorsese Presents the Blues</STRONG>, during 2003s <STRONG>‘The Year of the Blues’</STRONG> tributes and activities. On October 29, 2004 movie goers will see King on the silver screen once again in the Ray Charles biopic ‘Ray” (Universal Pictures), directed by Taylor Hackford and starring Jamie Foxx as Charles. <STRONG>Chris Thomas King plays Lowell Fulson</STRONG> (with whom King accompanied on tour as a teenager), and in this role, King became <STRONG>one of the last artists to record with the great Ray Charles</STRONG>. Hackford has said of King, "There are few artists working in America today that possess as varied an arsenal of talent as Chris Thomas King: accomplished singer, consummate guitar player, and sensitive actor." And added, “Having watched Chris perform as a child prodigy at his father's blues club in Baton Rouge, I didn't immediately think of him for the role of Lowell Fulson. I still
had this image of him as a teenager. Obviously, teenagers grow up and become men. When I met Chris again I realized that he'd be perfect to play the Lowell whose band featured the young Ray Charles in the early 1950s. I don't think anyone else could have delivered the same combination of high level talent for this role: Chris is a righteous blues singer and a sensitive actor. He became Lowell Fulson.” <BR><BR><BR><STRONG>21ST CENTURY BLUES RECORDS</STRONG><BR>Utilizing the public platform resulting from the phenomenal success of "O Brother," <STRONG>King was able to bring wider attention to his own record label, 21st Century Blues Records. </STRONG>King had started the label as a forum for his own work and that of other kindred artists. Based out of New Orleans, where King lives, it parallels such other ventures emanating out of the Louisiana scene as Cash Money Records and Master P’s No Limit Records. <BR><BR><BR>MORE ON CHRIS THOMAS
KING<BR><BR>King began playing professionally at the age of nine at his father’s Baton Rouge club, Tabby’s Blues Box. By his early teens, he was rubbing shoulders with such legends as Silas Hogan, Willie Dixon, Lowell Fulson and Buddy Guy, many of whom encouraged King to develop his own musical path based on his generation’s music. At the same time, King absorbed and played rock, soul, funk and the emerging urban style of hip-hop. "We didn’t go to parties and listen to Skip James," he says of his youth. "Instead, we might have listened to Rick James." The influence of such hip-hop pioneers as Run-D.M.C., Public Enemy and N.W.A. helped validate King’s belief that melding hip-hop and the blues was a natural progression.<BR><BR>While still in his teens, King released his first album in 1986 on the influential roots music label Arhoolie Records, writing, playing and arranging all the music himself. Titled “The Beginning” and recently re-released on CD under King’s originally intended
title, “It’s A Cold Ass World,” the album prompted <STRONG>Rolling Stone to dub King "the heir to Jimi Hendrix and Howling Wolf." <BR></STRONG><BR>King migrated to Austin, Texas, releasing more acclaimed albums like 1990’s “Cry Of The Prophets” and making his <STRONG>national TV debut on "The David Letterman Show</STRONG>." Hailed as a next big thing, King nonetheless encountered resistance from the gatekeepers in both the blues and hip-hop worlds to the sound he was developing that included electric guitar, rapping and scratching. So he headed to Europe with the hope of more receptive audiences.<BR><BR>"I felt that if I had compromised my musical vision, and not added hip-hop and the ghetto stories that I lived and saw, my music wouldn’t be my blues and authentic to my experience," explains King. He landed in London, homeless, penniless and sleeping in parks. Eventually settling in Copenhagen, King finally completed the album he’d been struggling for some time to record, “21st
Century Blues…From Da Hood.” The 1994 release established King as a star in Europe, and prompted <STRONG>Time Magazine to declare it, "the most ambitious release so far this year."<BR></STRONG><BR> <BR>King eventually returned to America and set up his 21st Century Blues studio and label in New Orleans. Cast by the <STRONG>Coen Brothers in "O Brother,"</STRONG> King recorded his musical contribution <STRONG>"Hard Time Killing Floor Blues" as the only live number in the movie. In his trailer on the film set, King also wrote a wealth of material in the Tommy Johnson vein. One of those songs, "John Law Burned Down The Liquor Sto’," was featured in the "Down From The Mountain" concert film and soundtrack album, which has sold over 500,000 copies in the U.S.</STRONG> Others became part of King’s album paying tribute to the character he played, titled “The Legend of Tommy Johnson, Act 1: Genesis 1900’s-1990’s.”<BR><BR>Meanwhile King continued touring with the "Down From The
Mountain" tour (which grossed over 20 million dollars in 2002) to celebrate his blues heritage. "I loved having an opportunity to introduce millions of fans to my blues roots," says King. <BR><BR><STRONG>Now, as one of the most recognized blues musician in the world</STRONG> King is defining today’s blues for the modern urban audience. "When I hear Tommy Johnson or any blues artist I respect from another era, I learn a lot about the social conditions of the day — the culture and where we were as Americans at that particular time," says King. "If you really want to be like Tommy Johnson, I think you have to live in your time and be true to your experience. Because that’s what he did."<BR><BR><STRONG>Chris Thomas King’s Selected Awards and Accomplishments</STRONG>:<BR>#1 Album on the Billboard Pop charts for “O Brother, Where Art Thou?<BR>Multi - Grammy“ Award winner including “Album Of The Year” for “O Brother, Where Art Thou?<BR>Country Music Award winner “Album Of The Year” for “O
Brother, Where Art Thou?”<BR>Bluegrass Music Awards “ Album Of The Year” for “Down From The Mountain.”<BR>O Brother, Where Art Thou? Has sold more than seven million records in the United States.<BR>Down From the Mountain is Certified Gold with sales of more than five hundred thousand in the US.<BR>Co-Headlined sold out concerts at Carnegie Hall and Radio City Music Hall.<BR>Co-Headlined the Down From The Mountain tour, which grossed more than 20 million dollars and drew over 250,000 people in sold-out arenas across America.<BR>Voted one of the “Entertainers Of The Year” by Entertainment Weekly.<BR><BR>The Press Are Talking About Chris Thomas King: <BR>“His songs boast a crunching blues beat, brash guitars and howling harmonica solos.”-Time Magazine<BR><BR>”When this modern day bluesman gets to the crossroads, he doesn’t find the devil but rather Robert Johnson on one side and Master P on the other, both inviting him to set up shop.”-Rolling Stone<BR>“…an audacious, exciting blend
of contemporary hip-hop and traditional blues…”-Billboard Magazine<BR><BR>”The…guitarist heads into uncharted territory …ambitiously blending blues and rock with rap.”-Vibe <BR><BR>”It is … palpably clear that he is bringing his music up from deep, real places in his heart, that he believes every word he sings and every note he plays.”-The Boston Globe<BR><BR>”He is … a consummate bluesman, articulate in the many different languages, tropes and accents that characterize this rich and endlessly evolving art form.”-Living Blues Magazine<BR><BR><STRONG>”Chris Thomas King is in the vanguard of today’s Blues</STRONG> arguably the great-grandfather of American popular music. But he doesn’t just sing and play guitar. He raps over turntable scratches and slide guitar, tortured strings, pulled and hammered.”-The Los Angeles Daily News<BR><BR><B><FONT size=4>VASTI JACKSON</FONT></B><BR>From humble beginnings in McComb, Mississippi to the Stages and recording studios of the world, Vasti shares
his God given talent, artistry and love of music with an enthusiasm and energy that's as strong as life itself. He is the genuine article, The indigenous music of Mississippi personified in the spirit and the flesh be it Blues, Gospel or Jazz, Vasti delivers with burning passion and true professionalism.</P>
<P align=left>Guitarist, songwriter and producer Vasti Jackson may well be the busiest musician in Mississippi. In the last several years, the Hattiesburg resident has appeared in several feature films, a documentary and a TV show, co-produced a Grammy-nominated album, and worked as a session man and road musician for numerous artists. Jackson also performs with his own band.</P>
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