Bo Carter - Complete Recorded Works - 1928-1940 (5 CD, 1991/FLAC)

 

Armenter Chatmon (June 30, 1893 – September 21, 1964), known as Bo Carter, was an early American blues musician. He was a member of the Mississippi Sheiks in concerts and on a few of their recordings. He also managed that group, which included his brothers Lonnie Chatmon on fiddle and, occasionally, Sam Chatmon on bass and their friend Walter Vinson on guitar and lead vocals.

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?