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Name
  
Sam Chatmon

Role
  
Guitarist


Music group
  
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Died
  
February 2, 1983, Hollandale, Mississippi, United States

Albums
  
Sitting On Top Of The World

Similar People
  
Bo Carter, Charley Patton, Papa Charlie McCoy

Siblings
  
Bo Carter, Charley Patton

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Sam Chatmon (January 10, 1897 – February 2, 1983) was a Delta blues guitarist and singer. He was a member of the Mississippi Sheiks. He may have been Charlie Patton's half-brother.

Contents

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Life and career

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Chatmon was born in Bolton, Mississippi. His family was well known in Mississippi for their musical talents; he was a member of the family's string band when he was young. In an interview he stated that he started playing the guitar at the age of 3, laying it flat on the floor and crawling under it. He regularly performed for white audiences in the 1900s.

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The Chatmon band played rags, ballads, and popular dance tunes. Two of Sam's brothers, the fiddler Lonnie Chatmon and the guitarist Bo Carter, performed with the guitarist Walter Vinson as the Mississippi Sheiks.

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Chatmon played the banjo, mandolin, and harmonica in addition to the guitar. He performed at parties and on street corners throughout Mississippi for small pay and tips. In the 1930s he recorded with the Sheiks and also with his brother Lonnie as the Chatman Brothers.

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Chatmon moved to Hollandale, Mississippi, in the early 1940s and worked on plantations there. He was rediscovered in 1960 and started a new chapter of his career as a folk-blues artist. In the same year he recorded for Arhoolie Records. He toured extensively during the 1960s and 1970s. While in California in 1970 he made several recordings with Sue Draheim, Kenny Hall, Ed Littlefield, Lou Curtiss, Kathy Hall, Will Scarlett and others at Sweet's Mill Music Camp, forming a group he called "The California Sheiks". He played many of the largest and best-known folk festivals, including the Smithsonian Folklife Festival in Washington, D.C., in 1972, the Mariposa Folk Festival in Toronto in 1974, and the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival in 1976.

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A headstone memorial to Chatmon with the inscription "Sitting on top of the World" was paid for by Bonnie Raitt through the Mt. Zion Memorial Fund and placed in Sanders Memorial Cemetery, Hollandale, Mississippi, on March 14, 1998, in a ceremony held at the Hollandale Municipal Building, celebrated by the Mayor and members of the city council of Hollandale, with over 100 attendees.

Studio albums

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  • Sam Chatmon: The Mississippi Sheik (Blue Goose, 197?)
  • Hollandale Blues (Albatros, 1977)
  • Sam Chatmon's Advice (Rounder, 1979)
  • Sam Chatmon & His Barbecue Boys (Flying Fish, 1981)
  • Compilations

  • Sam Chatmon 1970–1974 (Flyright, 1999)
  • Field Recordings from Hollandale, Mississippi (1976–1982) (Mbirafon, 2009)
  • References

    Sam Chatmon Wikipedia


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