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'''Vivian "Sam" Chatmon''' (January 10, 1897 – February 2, 1983) was a [[Delta blues]] guitarist and singer who was a member of the [[Mississippi Sheiks]].
'''Vivian "Sam" Chatmon''' (January 10, 1897 – February 2, 1983)<ref name="LarkinBlues">{{cite book|title=[[Encyclopedia of Popular Music|The Guinness Who's Who of Blues]]|editor=[[Colin Larkin (writer)|Colin Larkin]]|publisher=[[Guinness Publishing]]|date=1995|edition=Second|isbn=0-85112-673-1|page=81}}</ref> was an American [[Delta blues]] guitarist and singer who was a member of the [[Mississippi Sheiks]].


==Life and career==
==Life and career==
Chatmon was born in [[Bolton, Mississippi|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. He may have been [[Charley Patton]]'s half-brother.<ref>{{cite book|title=The Devil's Music|author=Giles Oakley|publisher=[[Da Capo Press]]|page=[https://archive.org/details/devilsmusichisto00oakl_0/page/49 49]|isbn=978-0-306-80743-5|date=1997|url=https://archive.org/details/devilsmusichisto00oakl_0/page/49}}</ref> In an interview he stated that he started playing the guitar at the age of three, laying it flat on the floor and crawling under it.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkEhtfPN084|title=Sam Chatmon: Make Me A Pallet On the Floor (1978)|date=November 16, 2011|publisher=[[YouTube]]}}</ref> A year older and he recalled singing a song including the lyrics "Run down to the river thought I'd jump an' drown / I thought about the woman I lovin' and I turn around".<ref name="Devil">{{cite book|title=The Devil's Music|author=Giles Oakley|publisher=[[Da Capo Press]]|pages=[https://archive.org/details/devilsmusichisto00oakl_0/page/41 41/2]|isbn=978-0-306-80743-5|date=1997|url=https://archive.org/details/devilsmusichisto00oakl_0/page/41}}</ref>  He regularly performed for white audiences in the 1900s.<ref name="Devil2">{{cite book|title=The Devil's Music|author=Giles Oakley|publisher=[[Da Capo Press]]|pages=[https://archive.org/details/devilsmusichisto00oakl_0/page/51 51/2]|isbn=978-0-306-80743-5|date=1997|url=https://archive.org/details/devilsmusichisto00oakl_0/page/51}}</ref>
Chatmon was born in [[Bolton, Mississippi|Bolton]], Mississippi.<ref name="LarkinBlues"/> 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. He may have been [[Charley Patton]]'s half-brother.<ref>{{cite book|title=The Devil's Music|author=Giles Oakley|publisher=[[Da Capo Press]]|page=[https://archive.org/details/devilsmusichisto00oakl_0/page/49 49]|isbn=978-0-306-80743-5|date=1997|url=https://archive.org/details/devilsmusichisto00oakl_0/page/49}}</ref> In an interview he stated that he started playing the guitar at the age of three, laying it flat on the floor and crawling under it.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkEhtfPN084|title=Sam Chatmon: Make Me A Pallet On the Floor (1978)|date=November 16, 2011|publisher=[[YouTube]]}}</ref> A year older and he recalled singing a song including the lyrics "Run down to the river thought I'd jump an' drown / I thought about the woman I lovin' and I turn around".<ref name="Devil">{{cite book|title=The Devil's Music|author=Giles Oakley|publisher=[[Da Capo Press]]|pages=[https://archive.org/details/devilsmusichisto00oakl_0/page/41 41/2]|isbn=978-0-306-80743-5|date=1997|url=https://archive.org/details/devilsmusichisto00oakl_0/page/41}}</ref>  He regularly performed for white audiences in the 1900s.<ref name="Devil2">{{cite book|title=The Devil's Music|author=Giles Oakley|publisher=[[Da Capo Press]]|pages=[https://archive.org/details/devilsmusichisto00oakl_0/page/51 51/2]|isbn=978-0-306-80743-5|date=1997|url=https://archive.org/details/devilsmusichisto00oakl_0/page/51}}</ref>


The Chatmon band played [[ragtime|rag]]s, [[ballad]]s, and popular dance tunes. Two of Sam's brothers, the [[fiddle]]r Lonnie Chatmon and the guitarist [[Bo Carter]], performed with the guitarist [[Walter Vinson]] as the Mississippi Sheiks.
The Chatmon band played [[ragtime|rag]]s, [[ballad]]s, and popular dance tunes. Two of Sam's brothers, the [[fiddle]]r Lonnie Chatmon and the guitarist [[Bo Carter]], performed with the guitarist [[Walter Vinson]] as the Mississippi Sheiks.<ref name="LarkinBlues"/>


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 [[sound recording and reproduction|recorded]] with the Sheiks and also with his brother Lonnie as the Chatman Brothers.
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 [[sound recording and reproduction|recorded]] with the Sheiks and also with his brother Lonnie as the Chatman Brothers.<ref name="LarkinBlues"/>


Chatmon moved to [[Hollandale, Mississippi]] in the early 1940s and worked on [[plantations in the American South|plantation]]s there.<ref>{{cite book|title=The Devil's Music|author=Giles Oakley|publisher=[[Da Capo Press]]|page=[https://archive.org/details/devilsmusichisto00oakl_0/page/189 189/190]|isbn=978-0-306-80743-5|date=1997|url=https://archive.org/details/devilsmusichisto00oakl_0/page/189}}</ref>  He was rediscovered in 1960 and started a new chapter of his career as a [[folk music|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 (musician)|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".<ref>UCLA Ethnomusicology Archive (Lou Curtiss San Diego Folk Festival Collection 1962–1987). [http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt8f59s1t5/dsc/. Box 3, item 2007.04sdff070: "Sweets Mill Music Camp – The Original Musical Meeting of 'The California Sheiks' 1970"].</ref> 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.
Chatmon moved to [[Hollandale, Mississippi]] in the early 1940s and worked on [[plantations in the American South|plantation]]s there.<ref>{{cite book|title=The Devil's Music|author=Giles Oakley|publisher=[[Da Capo Press]]|page=[https://archive.org/details/devilsmusichisto00oakl_0/page/189 189/190]|isbn=978-0-306-80743-5|date=1997|url=https://archive.org/details/devilsmusichisto00oakl_0/page/189}}</ref>  He was rediscovered in 1960 and started a new chapter of his career as a [[folk music|folk]]-[[blues]] artist.<ref name="LarkinBlues"/> 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 (musician)|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".<ref>UCLA Ethnomusicology Archive (Lou Curtiss San Diego Folk Festival Collection 1962–1987). [http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt8f59s1t5/dsc/. Box 3, item 2007.04sdff070: "Sweets Mill Music Camp – The Original Musical Meeting of 'The California Sheiks' 1970"].</ref> 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.


Sam Chatmon died on February 2, 1983, in [[Hollandale, Mississippi]], aged 86. 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.<ref name="Early">{{Cite web|url=http://earlyblues.org/resting-places/|title=Resting Places|website=Earlybues.org|access-date=March 1, 2021}}</ref> Chatmon was later honored with a marker on the [[Mississippi Blues Trail]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://msbluestrail.org/blues-trail-markers/sam-chatmon|title=Sam Chatmon|last=|first=|date=|website=Mississippi Blues Trail|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-03-02}}</ref>
Sam Chatmon died on February 2, 1983, in [[Hollandale, Mississippi]], aged 86. 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]].  It was 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.<ref name="Early">{{Cite web|url=http://earlyblues.org/resting-places/|title=Resting Places|website=Earlybues.org|access-date=March 1, 2021}}</ref> Chatmon was later honored with a marker on the [[Mississippi Blues Trail]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://msbluestrail.org/blues-trail-markers/sam-chatmon|title=Sam Chatmon|last=|first=|date=|website=Mississippi Blues Trail|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-03-02}}</ref>


==Discography==
==Discography==
===Studio albums===
===Studio albums===
*''Sam Chatmon: The Mississippi Sheik'' (Blue Goose, 197?)
*''Sam Chatmon: The Mississippi Sheik'' (Blue Goose, 1970)
*''Hollandale Blues'' (Albatros, 1977)
*''Hollandale Blues'' (Albatros, 1977)
*''Sam Chatmon's Advice'' (Rounder, 1979)
*''Sam Chatmon's Advice'' (Rounder, 1979)

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Vivian "Sam" Chatmon (January 10, 1897 – February 2, 1983)[1] was an American Delta blues guitarist and singer who was a member of the Mississippi Sheiks.

Life and career

Chatmon was born in Bolton, Mississippi.[1] 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. He may have been Charley Patton's half-brother.[2] In an interview he stated that he started playing the guitar at the age of three, laying it flat on the floor and crawling under it.[3] A year older and he recalled singing a song including the lyrics "Run down to the river thought I'd jump an' drown / I thought about the woman I lovin' and I turn around".[4] He regularly performed for white audiences in the 1900s.[5]

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.[1]

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.[1]

Chatmon moved to Hollandale, Mississippi in the early 1940s and worked on plantations there.[6] He was rediscovered in 1960 and started a new chapter of his career as a folk-blues artist.[1] 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".[7] 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.

Sam Chatmon died on February 2, 1983, in Hollandale, Mississippi, aged 86. 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. It was 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.[8] Chatmon was later honored with a marker on the Mississippi Blues Trail.[9]

Discography

Studio albums

  • Sam Chatmon: The Mississippi Sheik (Blue Goose, 1970)
  • 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

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