Mississippi Sheiks (stop and listen blues)

[BibIeBarney]

Who's playing here? Who on guitar vox and fiddle?

[jacksondemarre]

@BibIeBarney I believe its Sam Chatmon on guitar and vocals and Lonnie Chatmon on fiddle

[dmband420]

This is a rip off of Tommy Johnson's "Big Road Blues".

[acidcasual07]

They all used similar riffs and lyrics.  I bet they knew each other.

[DanFindling]

@dmband420 they also ripped off his singing style if you notice with the high notes

[deewilki]

@DanFindling ripped off is a strong word all old american tunes have a common thread. mind its the devils music . oh regarding big road blues its tricky as the shieks were touring most of the 20s and playing there tunes in many places they only recorded this in 1930 i think but they were playing it for years before

[tommy2chips]

I am a blues fan. I have records from the 1920's to this current decade. I have never herd of the shieks. They are out of sight!!!!

[frankie12string]

The singer and guitar player is Walter Vinson and the fiddler is Lonnie Chatmon.

Walter also recorded as 'Sam Hill from Louisville" and Walter Jacobs, and his last name is sometimes Vincson and I think I've seen it once as Vincent.

Too bad the video song cuts the song before the very end!

[teeteeboi]

@frankie12string Never knew that about Sam Hill from Louisville...Thanks for the interesting fact!

I like when Walter uses his name in some of the Sheiks songs...I always try to listen to Sam Chatmon singin' backup (I know it was mainly Bo, Lonnie & Walter) but every once in awhile, you can hear Sam sneak up to the mic...

[Gullahboy]

Sam was a light skinned brutha

[slloyd1452]

That's gotta be Sam Chatmon on the guitar. Sounds like him singing too. I first saw Sam's "modern" Brownskin Woman - then I found the Sheiks. I wonder if the public knew he was a white man.

[nyssa1049]

actually sam chatmon wasnt a white man, in the typical meaning... he was mixed. i'm not sure exactly what he had in him because you can hardley never tell EXACTLY who's what... but i'm pretty sure he was mulatto at least...could be wrong though

[tenorlord]

High Yella!

Sam was high yellow.

Probably Bo Carter (ne' Chatmon} on guitar.

Bo changed his name because he thought Carter sounded "whiter".

[RasputinSir]

@nyssa1049 I heard hi say he dad was black&his mother japanese

[kimmdenson09]

he was a fair skin black man from bolton mississippi where i'm from i heard he was part cherrokee and he also had a brother larry who played with the sheiks for a short time.

[acidcasual07]

he looks white but he was mixed race. He would have a lot darker skin when he was younger.

[deewilki]

@acidcasual07 the chatmoans  or chatmons are /were mixed negro native american and slave white mix oh if you look he was very dark as a young man and with age his piment looks to have thined ps they are related to some of the greates blues players

[teleprompter187]

i love the mississippi sheiks, thanks for posting

wondering where you got this song from