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'''Cleve Chafin''' (March 4, 1885 – December 10, 1959) was a carnival musician who recorded [[old-time music]] during the 1920s.

==Biography==
Chafin was from [[Wayne County, West Virginia]], the son of Alice Adkins and Bob Chafin.<ref name="wvculture.org">{{cite web|url=http://www.wvculture.org/vrr/va_view.aspx?Id=4534972&Type=Death|title=West Virginia Vital Research Records - Record Image|work=wvculture.org}}</ref> He first recorded a solo session in [[Richmond, Indiana]], for [[Gennett Records]] on November 16, 1927,<ref name="gennett">{{cite book
| first= & Bob Pinson
| last= Tony Russell
| year= 2001
| title= Country Music Records: A Discography, 1921-1942
| publisher= Oxford University Press
| location= Nashville, TN
| pages= [https://archive.org/details/countrymusicreco00tony/page/200 200]
| isbn= 0-19-513989-5
| url= https://archive.org/details/countrymusicreco00tony/page/200
}}</ref> but the recordings were never issued. He may also have recorded a session for [[Paramount Records]] in 1928 with two men named Stevens and Bolar as [[Fruit Jar Guzzlers]]. In [[Chicago, Illinois]], Chaffin recorded six songs with [[John & Emery McClung]] for [[Paramount Records]]. These records were released as by Cleve Chaffin and The McClung Brothers. Chaffin continued his professional music career, but never recorded again.<ref name="latercareer">{{cite book
| first=Ivan M.
| last=Tribe
| year=1984
| title=Mountaineer Jamboree: Country Music In West Virginia
| publisher=The University Press Of Kentucky
| location=Lexington, KY
| pages=[https://archive.org/details/mountaineerjambo00trib/page/29 29]
| isbn=0-8131-1514-0
| url=https://archive.org/details/mountaineerjambo00trib/page/29
}}</ref> He died on December 10, 1959, in [[Huntington, West Virginia]], at the age of 74.<ref name="wvculture.org"/>

Chafin died in [[Huntington, West Virginia]], at the age of 74. He was never married.

According to the Thirteenth Census of the United States in 1910, a Cleve Chafin, who was born in Kentucky and aged 22, was a prisoner at the city jail in Cabell County, West Virginia at the time of the census.

==Discography==

===Unreleased 1927 Gennett recordings===
* [[Sweet Bunch of Daisies]]
* Aged Mother
* The Night My Mother Died
* Curtain Of Night
* Wreck Of The C&O
* Railroad Bill

===Cleve Chaffin & The McClung Brothers===
* Babylon Is Falling Down/I Got A Home In The Beulah Land (Paramount #3160) (3/1929)
* Trail Blazer's Favorites/Alabama Jubilee (Paramount #3161) (3/1929)
* Rock House Gamblers/Curtains Of Night (Paramount #3170) (3/1929)

==Various artists compilations==
* My Rough And Rowdy Ways Volume One (Yazoo #2039) (1998)
* Old Time Music Of West Virginia Volume Two (County #CD-3519) (1999)
* The Half Ain’t Never Been Told Volume Two (Yazoo #2050) (1999)
* Country Music Classic (Vintage78 #C-53) (cassette)
* Paramount Old Time Recordings (JSP) (3-CD set) (2006)

==Notes==
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==External links==
* [{{Allmusic|class=artist|id=p526426/credits|pure_url=yes}} Allmusic]
* [http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=chafin&GSmid=6719860&GRid=88504750& Find A Grave Memorial]

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[[Category:1885 births]]
[[Category:1959 deaths]]
[[Category:Old-time musicians]]
[[Category:Gennett Records artists]]

Cleve Chaffin - Revision history

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