Sam Chatmon
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Vivian "Sam" Chatmon was an American Delta blues guitarist and singer. He began playing guitar at age three and performed with his family's string band. In the 1930s, Chatmon recorded with the Mississippi Sheiks and his brother Lonnie as the Chatman Brothers. He moved to Hollandale, Mississippi in the early 1940s and worked on plantations there. Rediscovered in 1960, he went on a different direction as a folk-blues artist, recording for Arhoolie Records that same year. Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, Chatmon toured extensively. In 1972 he played at the Smithsonian Folklife Festival and released the album The Mississippi Sheik. He later performed at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival in 1976, and in 1977 released the album Hollandale Blues. Sam Chatmon died on February 2, 1983 in Hollandale, Mississippi. He was honored with a marker on the Mississippi Blues Trail for his legacy.
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- Go back old devil
- Good Eatin' Meat
- Let's Get Drunk Again
- Sam Chatmon Mentions Musicians and Producers
- Sam Chatmon Discusses Good Eating Meat
- Sam Chatmon Discusses Black Night
- Last Time Shaking in the Bed With Me
- I'm Crazy About Her Loving
- Brownskin Woman (Big Road Blues)
- P Stands for Push
- Sam Chatmon Discusses Go Back Old Devil
- Prowling ground hog
- Sam's Rag
- Mean Old Frisco by Sam Chatmon
- St. Louis Blues
- That's all right
- Sam Chatmon Discusses His Reluctance to Fly
- Stop And Listen Blues
- Who Gonna Love You Tonight
- Open Your Book, Your Daddy Got to Read With You
- Baby please come to me
- Sam Chatmon Discusses Prowling Ground Hog
- Stoop Down Baby, Let Your Daddy See
- I Get the Blues When It Rains
