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Mississippi Sheiks

Country blues band

Musical artist

The Mississippi Sheiks were a popular and influential Americanguitar and fiddle group of the 1930s. They were notable mostly for playing country blues[1] but were adept at many styles of popular music of the time. They recorded around 70 tracks, primarily in the first half of the 1930s.[2] In 2004, they were inducted into the Mississippi Musicians Hall of Fame.

Their 1930 blues single "Sitting on Top of the World" was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2008.[3] In 2018, it was selected for preservation in the National Recording Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".[4]

Formation

The Mississippi Sheiks consisted mainly of members of the Chatmon family,[5] from Bolton, Mississippi, who were well known in the Mississippi Delta. The father of the family, Henderson Chatmon, had been a "musicianer" (someon

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    In Lonnie opened a cafe in Glen Allan, while Sam worked as a farmer and night watchman in Hollandale before embarking on a new recording and touring career during the folk blues revival of the s.

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  • Lonnie Chatmon, the group's leader, was a superb dance fiddler.

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      The Mississippi Sheiks fiddler was Lonnie Chatmon, a member of a prolific musical family from Bolton, Mississippi, all of whom performed as members of the Sheiks at times.

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  • The show is an exploration of African-American music, namely the music that falls in the standard blues discographies, spanning the 1920's through the 1970's.
    • Anyone who knows the Mississippi Sheiks knows, at their core, were three sons of the nineteenth century 'musicianer', Henderson Chatmon, a one-time slave.
    At dances the Sheiks featured various members of the prolific Chatmon family and friends from Bolton, Raymond, and Edwards, but in the recording studio the unit was most often a duo–violinist Lonnie Chatmon and singer-guitarist Walter Vinson–sometimes joined by guitarist Bo Chatmon, who recorded over 100 songs under the name Bo Carter, Sam.
    The last Mississippi Sheiks recording of all was a lively dance instrumental, displaying the violin prowess that Vinson so much admired in his long-time partner, Lonnie Chatmon.

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      The Mississippi Sheiks fiddler was Lonnie Chatmon, a member of a prolific musical family from Bolton, Mississippi, all of whom performed as members of the Sheiks at times.
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    Mississippi Sheiks Songs, Albums, Reviews, Bio... | AllMusic

      Lonnie Chatmon and Vinson formed the core of the group.

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  • The Mississippi Sheiks consisted mainly of members of the Chatmon family, [5] from Bolton, Mississippi, who were well known in the Mississippi Delta.The father of the family, Henderson Chatmon, had been a "musicianer" (someone with good technical ability on his or her instrument, adept at sight-reading written music) during slavery times, and his children carried on the musical spirit.

    • Lonnie Chatmon Songs, Albums, Reviews, Bio & M... | AllMusic

  • Henderson's sons Armenter, better known as "Bo Carter" and Sam Chatmon recorded extensively as solo artists, and both also recorded with the Mississippi Sheiks, a popular group that featured their brother Lonnie Chatmon on fiddle.