[Dixielandjazz] Bo Carter/ Chatman/ Chatmon Grahame Parker

[ROBERT R. CALDER]

I don't know how much of Bo Carter has been transcribed,   
the composer credit would be "Chatman" or "Chatmon", Carter being a nom-de-disque 

are there any acoustic blues or folksy guitarists? A lyrical songster he was, recorded a lot and was associated with the much recorded (by 1930s standards) Mississippi Sheiks, a string band. He was long survived by his brother Sam, who had the biggest beard ever seen on a bluesman. Their brother Harry was a recorded singer-pianist 

there is a lot of material, including a whole LP entitled BANANA IN YOUR FRUIT BASKET  containing songs of surpassing blueness which the old man declared were conposed strictly for white audiences, for only whites were turned on by such items. George Melly had a little recit about the Bessie Smith dimension battleaxes from New Orleans north sitting down reading Freud at the same time as Freud was listening to the fizz and pop around their singing as he played 78 rpm discs on his photograph, reclining on athe famous couch in the absence of an analysand.Some of the non-blue Bo Carter items have an astonishing lyrical delicacy, and probably an appeal to little children -- some of them might have charmed Freud and even escaped his inquisitions after the salty.

There is a gap in my listing of Carter recordings,  I suspect the title may be wrong and there would be a lot of listening to do to get through the several CDs on the Document label, whether by Bo or his siblings or the combination and any other Mississippi Sheik of the more camel-smoking than camel-riding species.  
I have inquired of some more blues specialist friends and will pass on any information --
If Grahame sees any likely candidate names in the pages I'll forward him an mp3 should be no problem, 

and you might well find a clue by reference to the website of 

document-records.com 
which index every title on LP/ CD on their list, suitably comprehensive since beginning with their founder, Johnny Parth, in Austria, they have reissued every known blues recording prior to 1945, and some more recent. You should also be able to sample mp3s and get the early bars of any recording for identification purposes -- there might only be a tune to transcribe, 

Document should list ALL titles under relevant Carter/ Chatman/ Mississippi Sheiks names (and for these names, just as Jack Hawkins in THE CRUEL SEA is told "there is always gin" there is always Wikipedia, well served by Bluesiasts,
almost P.S.   I find as YouTube churns a "Jackson Stomp" by Tuba Skinny, which is COW COW BLUES as retitled by the McCoy brothers, Charlie and Joe, on mandolin and guitar, Joe having managed to be buried in an unmarked grave despite his   "Weed Smoker's Dream" and in financial terms its reappearance cosmetised as "Why don't you do right?" sung by Peggy Lee. I sincerely hope brethren and sistren (as at least one of the faithful bellows on 78rpm shellac -- please, don't say he shouts "cistern"!) are acquaint with the McCoys' amazing floating section work on Harlem Hamfats recordings!

all the very best,Robert R. Calder.


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