Walter Vinson

One half from the renowned Mississippi Sheiks, singer/guitarist Walter Vinson was also being among the most noteworthy blues accompanists of his era. Blessed Feb 2, 1901 in Bolton, Mississippi, Vinson (also known variously as Vincson and Vincent) started performing as a kid, and during his teenager years was a fixture at region celebrations and picnics. Also in the outset, nevertheless, he rarely if appeared being a single act, seemingly a lot more in the home in duets and trios; toward that end, through the 1920s he caused Charlie McCoy, Rubin Lacy, and Charlie Spand just before forging his most pivotal and long-lasting union with Lonnie Chatmon in 1928. Furthermore to teaming with Chatmon in the Mississippi Sheiks, Vinson also documented with him in the Mississippi Sizzling hot Footers, as well as caused Chatmon’s brothers Bo and Harry. Upon the Sheiks’ 1933 dissolution, Vinson documented with several players in areas which range from Jackson, Mississippi to New Orleans and lastly to Chicago; while a dynamic club performer through the early ’40s, by the center of the decade he previously begun an extended hiatus from music that continuing through 1960, of which stage he came back to both documenting and festival performances. Hardening from the arteries compelled Vinson into pension through the early ’70s; he passed away in Chicago in 1975.