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The Mississippi Sheiks were probably one of the most popular string rings of the past due ’20s and early ’30s. Created in Jackson around 1926, the music group blended nation and blues fiddle music — both old-fashioned and risqué — and included guitarist Walter Vinson and fiddler Lonnie Chatmon, with …
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A product from the prodigious Chatmon family that included not merely Lonnie from the well-known Mississippi Sheiks but additionally the prolific Bo Carter and many various other blues-playing brothers, Sam Chatmon survived to become hailed as a modern-day blues expert when he began performing and recording again within the ’60s. …
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