Matokie Slaughter

Blessed around 1935 in Pulaski, VA, Matokie Slaughter was a gifted old-time musician and a distinctive visual musician. Best known on her behalf clawhammer banjo design (she also performed the fiddle) that mixed both along picking, Slaughter performed banjo frequently on regional radio within the 1940s, and since she rarely sang, many listeners assumed these were listening to a guy play the device. Her monitors on several clawhammer banjo anthologies released on LP by State Information in the 1960s brought her to the eye from the old-time music community, and she made an appearance at countless celebrations and old-time music occasions. Alongside her sister, Virgie Worrel Richardson, and Alice Gerrard, she produced the trunk Creek Buddies, whose wonderful album Saro premiered by Marimac Information in 1990. Slaughter’s most noticeable artistic accomplishment, though, may be the countless incomprehensible and gorgeous drawings she positioned for years within the edges of freight vehicles moving through her area, which have produced her somewhat of the godmother to the present day graffiti motion. Her fascinating styles still mix the U.S. everywhere, viewed by a large number of people seated in their vehicles at railroad crossings, no question thinking what those unusual markings mean within the edges of most those box vehicles. The initial and interesting Matokie Slaughter passed on on Dec 31, 1999.