Show Me the Way Home, Honey

Sam Chatmon - Blues When It Rains

Styles: Acoustic Blues, Country Blues, Delta Blues
Released: 1977/2006
Label: Albatros
File: mp3 @320K/s
Size: 69,7 MB
Time: 30:27
Art: full Lp + Cd

1. St. Louis Blues - 2:25
2. That's All Right - 3:41
3. Stoop Down Girl - 3:02
4. Baby Please Come Back To Me - 4:06
5. I'm Foll About Her Loving - 2:07
6. Prowling Ground Dog - 3:22
7. Go Back Old Devil - 2:33
8. Used To Be - 3:08
9. Blues When It Rains - 1:09
10. Good Eating Meat - 3:23
11. Let's get Drunk Again - 2:19

rec. at Sam Chatmon's home in Hollandale Aug. 6 or 7, 1976

Notes: Sam Chatmon (c. 1899-1983), a celebrated singer and guitarist who spent most of his life in Hollandale, sometimes performed with his brothers in a renowned family string band billed as the Mississippi Sheiks. He embarked on a new solo career after coming out of musical retirement in the 1960s. Many local musicians have performed here on Simmons Street, known as “the Blue Front, ”once one of the most vibrant centers of blues activity in the Delta.
Hollandale Blues history dates back at least to the 1920s, when the Mississippi Sheiks, Sam Chatmon, Bo Chatmon (aka Bo Carter), Eugene Powell, Robert Nighthawk, and Houston Stackhouse performed at local drug stores, cafes, and other businesses, in addition to jukehouse parties and dances on nearby plantations. Most of the Mississippi Sheiks, a popular string band known for their hit recording “Sitting on Top of the World” (1930), were members of the Chatmon family, several of whom moved from their native Hinds County to the Hollandale area around 1928 and worked here as cotton farmers as well as musicians. In later years Sam Chatmon moved into town and took a job as a night watchman, while his brother Bo settled in Anguilla.
After blues enthusiasts began to seek Sam out in the 1960s, he traveled to play concerts and festivals around the country, most often in the San Diego area, and recorded several albums including Hollandale Blues and The Mississippi Sheik. He grew a long beard, as his fiddle-playing father had done, and endeared himself to new audiences who were entertained by his risqué double-entendre songs. In 2009 the city of Hollandale purchased Chatmon’s house at 818 Sherman Street to move it here to “Blue Front,” an area once famed for blues, liquor, and gambling. Chatmon sang about Blue Front in his song “Hollandale Blues,” but told friends he preferred less rowdy surroundings.
Author Kathy Starr, whose grandmother operated the Fair Deal café on Blue Front, wrote in The Soul of Southern Cooking: “Blue Front was a string of little cafes where everybody gathered on the weekend. It was the only place blacks had to go, to get rid of the blues after a week’s hard work in the cotton fields. Everybody lived for Saturday night to go to Blue Front. . . . if you wanted a half-pint or a pint of whiskey or corn liquor, you could get it at Fair Deal because Grandmama and the chief of police had an ‘understanding.’ . . . The Seabirds (Seeburg juke boxes) would be jammin’ all up and down Blue Front with Howlin’ Wolf, Muddy Waters, and B. B. King. Sometimes they would be there in person over at the Day and Night Café. The great blues singer Sam Chatman [sic] came to Fair Deal often. People danced, ate, drank, and partied till the break of day. Saturday night without a fight was not known.”
Among other former Hollandale area residents, Eddie “Guitar Slim” Jones went on to the greatest fame in the 1950s after moving to New Orleans. Others include bluesmen William Warren, Willie Harris, Mott Willis, J. D. Short, James Earl “Blue” Franklin, and Joseph C. Moore (“J. C. Rico”); Eugene Powell’s wife Mississippi Matilda; the Buckhanna (Buchanan) Brothers string band; and soul singer Ruby Stackhouse, better known as Ruby Andrews. ~ Mississippi Blues Trail

Blues When It Rains



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Oznake: Sam Chatmon, Acoustic Blues, Country Blues, Delta Blues

Sam Chatmon - Blues At Home 2

Size: 100,8 MB
Time: 42:59
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2013
Styles: Acoustic Blues, Country Blues, Delta Blues
Label: Mbirafon
Art: Front

01. Open Your Book, Your Daddy Got To Read With You (1:43)
02. St. Louis Blues (2:18)
03. That's All Right (3:31)
04. Stoop Down Baby, Let Your Daddy See (Complete Version) (3:20)
05. Baby Please Come Back To Me (3:58)
06. Brownskin Woman (Big Road Blues) (2:32)
07. Prowling Ground Hog (3:09)
08. Go Back Old Devil (2:23)
09. Black Night (2:56)
10. I'm Crazy About Her Loving (1:58)
11. Last Time Shaking In The Bed With Me (4:04)
12. I Get The Blues When It Rains (1:05)
13. Good Eating Meat (3:18)
14. Let's Get Drunk Again (1:50)
15. P Stands For Push (2:04)
16. Sam Chatmon Discusses Good Eating Meat (0:32)
17. Sam Chatmon Mentions Musicians And Producers (2:09)

Cut in a relaxed session held on August 6th, 1976, at his private home in Hollandale, Mississippi.

Second volume of the Blues at Home series, the CD features one of the major blues rediscoveries of the 60s. Son of a fiddler ex-slave, Sam Chatmon belonged to a large family of Mississippi Delta musicians. His brother Bo Chatmon (aka Bo Carter) made numerous records in the 30s. The Chatmon brothers, and their associate Walter Vincent, founded before World War II the string band called The Mississippi Sheiks; playing for both white and black audiences, they acquired great popularity. Among the titles they recorded, 'Sitting on Top of the World' and 'Stop and Listen' became blues standards. Starting to play music at the early age of five, Sam developed a complex guitar technique, coupled with a highly expressive vocal style. His huge repertoire encompasses pre-blues influences, ragtime and popular songs, to spirited renditions of blues hits of the 50s and 60s, as well as his own original compositions.

Blues At Home 2



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Oznake: Sam Chatmon, Country Blues, Delta Blues