Bo Carter - Complete Recorded Works Vol. 1-5 [1928 - 1940]

 


Armenter "Bo Carter" Chatmon (June 30, 1892 – September 21, 1964) was an American early blues musician. He was a member of the Mississippi Sheiks in concerts, and on a few of their recordings. Carter also managed that group, which included his brother, Lonnie Chatmon, on fiddle and occasionally Sam Chatmon on bass, along with a friend, Walter Vinson, on guitar and lead vocals.


v. 1. 1928 to 4 June 1931.
  1. Good old turnip greens
  2. Bungalow blues
  3. Mary blues
  4. Electrocuted blues
  5. Corrine Corrina
  6. East Jackson blues
  7. I'm an old bumble bee
  8. Mean feeling blues
  9. I've got the whole world in my hand
  10. She's your cook but she burns my bread sometimes
  11. Same thing the cats fight about
  12. Times is tight like that
  13. My pencil won't write no more
  14. Banana in your fruit basket
  15. Pin in your cushion
  16. Pussy cat blues
  17. Ram rod daddy
  18. Loveless love
  19. I love that thing
  20. Backache blues
  21. Sorry feeling blues
  22. Baby, when you marry
  23. Boot it
  24. Twist it, baby
v. 2. 5 June 1931 to 26 March 1934.
  1. So long, baby, so long
  2. The law gonna step on you
  3. Pig meat is what I crave
  4. Howling tom cat blues
  5. Ants in my pants
  6. Blue runner blues
  7. I've got a case of mashin' it
  8. You don't love me no more
  9. What kind of scent is this?
  10. Pretty baby
  11. I want you to know
  12. Last go round
  13. I keep on spending my change
  14. Baby, how can it be?
  15. Bo Carter special
  16. Beans
  17. Nobody's business
  18. Queen bee
  19. Tellin' you 'bout it
  20. Please don't drive me from you door
  21. Pin in your cushion
  22. Banana in the fruit basket
v. 3. 27 March 1934 to 20 February 1936.
  1. Howlin' tom cat blues
  2. Don't cross lay your daddy
  3. Who broke the latch?
  4. Don't do it no more
  5. Skin ball blues
  6. Old shoe blues
  7. Please warm my weiner
  8. She's gonna crawl back home to you
  9. Let me roll your lemon
  10. Mashing that thing
  11. Blue runner blues
  12. Fifty-fifty with me
  13. To her burying ground
  14. When your left eye go to jumping
  15. Ride my mule
  16. T baby blues
  17. I get the blues
  18. Spotted sow blues
  19. Rolling blues
  20. All around man
  21. Fat mouth blues
  22. You better know your business
v. 4. 20 February 1936 to 22 October 1938.
  1. It's too wet
  2. Dinner blues
  3. Ain't nobody got it
  4. Cigarette blues
  5. Pussy cat blues
  6. The ins and outs of my girl
  7. All around man (part 2)
  8. Bo Carter's advice
  9. Doubled up in a knot
  10. Worried g blues
  11. Your biscuits are big enough for me
  12. Don't mash my digger so deep
  13. Flea on me
  14. Got to work somewhere
  15. Sue cow
  16. Shake 'em on down
  17. A girl for every day of the week
  18. Trouble in blues
  19. World in a jug
  20. Who's been here?
  21. Whiskey blues
  22. Shoo that chicken
v. 5. 22 October 1938 to 12 February 1940.
  1. Let's get drunk again
  2. Some day
  3. Old devil
  4. Country fool
  5. Santa Claus
  6. Be my salty dog
  7. Five dollar bill
  8. Ways like a crawfish
  9. Brown-skin woman
  10. Lucille, Lucille
  11. The country farm blues
  12. Border of New Mexico blues
  13. Arrangement for me-blues
  14. Lock the lock
  15. Trouble, oh trouble
  16. Baby Ruth
  17. My baby
  18. Policy blues
  19. Tush hog blues
  20. My little mind
  21. Honey
  22. What you want your daddy to do?