Bo Carter: Biography

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• Big Bill Broonzy
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• Peg Leg Sam
• Frank Hovington
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• The Beale Street Sheiks
• Sam Chatmon
• Harlem Slim

• Johnny Parth

Birth Name:

Armenter Chatmon

Born:

Dec 31, 1969 in Bolton, MS

Died:

Sep 21, 1964 in Memphis, TN

Genres:

Blues Music, Country Blues Music, Delta Blues Music

Decades Active:

1920's|1930's|1940's

Artistic Quality

Medium

Cultural Impact

Medium

Popularity

Medium

Ratings Guide

Bo Carter (Armenter "Bo" Chatmon) had an unequaled capacity for creating sexual metaphors in his songs, specializing in such ribald imagery as "Banana in Your Fruit Basket," "Pin in Your Cushion," and "Your Biscuits Are Big Enough for Me." One of the most popular bluesmen of the '30s, he recorded enough material for several reissue albums, and he was quite an original guitar picker, or else three of those albums wouldn't have been released by Yazoo. (Carter employed a number of different keys and tunings on his records, most of which were solo vocal and guitar performances.) Carter's facility extended beyond the risqué business to more serious blues themes, and he was also the first to record the standard "Corrine Corrina" (1928). Bo and his brothers Lonnie and Sam Chatmon also recorded as members of the Mississippi Sheiks with singer/guitarist Walter Vinson.

- Jim O'Neal, All Music Guide