Mississippi Sheiks (stop and listen blues)

The Mississippi Sheiks were a popular and influential guitar and fiddle group of the 1930s. They were notable mostly for playing country blues but were adept at many styles of United States popular music of the time, and their records were bought by both black and white audiences. Country blues is often seen as being the domain of individual musicians, a stereotype propagated by the way such delta blues performers as Robert Johnson and Charley Patton have entered the popular consciousness. Of the smaller number of groups playing at the time, the Mississippi Sheiks are among the better known and most influential among their peers.

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• Mississippi
• Sheiks
• country
• blues
• delta

[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

[jacksondemarre]

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

[DanFindling]

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

[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

[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...

[BibIeBarney]

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

[acidcasual07]

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

[acidcasual07]

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

[dmband420]

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

[RasputinSir]

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