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Sam Chatmon
Vinson c. 1970s
Background information
Birth name
Vivian Chatmon
Born
(1897-01-10)January 10, 1897 Bolton, Mississippi, U.S.
Died
February 2, 1983(1983-02-02) (aged 86) Hollandale, Mississippi, U.S.
Genres
Delta blues
Occupation(s)
Musician
songwriter
Instrument(s)
Guitar
vocals
Formerly of
The Mississippi Sheiks
Musical artist
Vivian "Sam" Chatmon (January 10, 1897 – February 2, 1983) was a Delta blues guitarist and singer who was a member of the Mississippi Sheiks.
Vivian "Sam" Chatmon (January 10, 1897 – February 2, 1983) was a Delta blues guitarist and singer who was a member of the Mississippi Sheiks. Chatmon was...
managed that group, which included his brothers Lonnie Chatmon on fiddle and, occasionally, SamChatmon on bass, and their friend Walter Vinson on guitar and...
American blues musician Bo Carter (1893–1964) Pete Chatmon (born 1977), American filmmaker SamChatmon (1897–1983), American Delta blues guitarist and singer...
dedicated a memorial headstone for SamChatmon in Sanders Memorial Cemetery, Hollandale, Mississippi on March 14, 1998. Chatmon's headstone reads: "Sitting On...
American musician) played later, when Carter and SamChatmon ceased playing full-time. Lonnie Chatmon and Vinson formed the core of the group. Carter's...
live session captured by Alan Lomax, Delta blues guitarist and singer SamChatmon accounted, "When I first started picking guitar it was about the first...
!" (1980) .[citation needed] In 1979, Linden recorded the SamChatmon album, “SamChatmon & His BBQ Boys" (Flying Fish Records}. In August 1980, Linden...
Sleepy John Estes, Clarence Nelson, Hammie Nixon, Memphis Piano Red, SamChatmon, and Mose Vinson.[citation needed] He opened twice for the Rolling Stones...
financed memorial headstones in Mississippi for musicians Memphis Minnie, SamChatmon, and Tommy Johnson again with the Mt. Zion Memorial Fund. In 2002, Raitt...
– Paul Desruisseaux, Canadian lawyer and politician (b. 1905) 1983 – SamChatmon, American singer and guitarist (b. 1897) 1986 – Anita Cobby, Australian...
single Vocalion 1249 1930s{?)[citation needed] – SamChatmon, included on the 1979 album SamChatmon's Advice 1964 – Mike Seeger, on the album Mike Seeger...
Argentine composer, pianist, and conductor (died 1968) January 10 – SamChatmon, blues musician (died 1983) January 22 Rosa Ponselle, soprano (died 1981)...
singer (Bolton) Johnny Carver (born 1940) – country singer (Jackson) SamChatmon (1897–1983) – blues singer; brother of Bo Carter (Bolton) Otis Clay (1942–2016)...
2013). "Mizzou's Michael Sam is two for two on All-America teams". The Kansas City Star. Retrieved February 10, 2014. Chatmon, Brandon (January 4, 2014)...
with legendary Delta blues guitarist SamChatmon in a group called the "California Sheiks" (named after Chatmon's back-home group, the "Mississippi Sheiks"...
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Records he recorded not only 'rediscovered' black blues artists like SamChatmon, Son House, Yank Rachell, Shirley Griffith and Thomas Shaw, but also...
takes place in Connecticut, and focuses on the life of 18-year-old Samuel "Sam" Gardner (Keir Gilchrist), who is on the autism spectrum. The first season...
toured with pioneer bluesman Buddy Moss in the 1960s. He played behind SamChatmon and toured with or opened for Dave Mason, Maria Muldaur, Ten Years After...
to play the mandolin-banjo. Nelson became friends with the Chatmon family (see SamChatmon), as both families worked together on the Kelly Drew Plantation...
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