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Chatmon, Sam

LC control no.n 83161793
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Personal name headingChatmon, Sam
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Variant(s)Chatman, Sam
Chatmon, Mississippi Sam
Associated countryUnited States
Birth date1897-01-10
1900
Death date1983-02-02
Place of birthBolton (Miss.)
Place of deathHollandale (Miss.)
Field of activityBlues (Music) Guitar music (Blues)
AffiliationMississippi Sheiks
Profession or occupationGuitarists Blues musicians Musicians Singers
Found inData from CINE for Sam Chatmon [VR] 1983 (Sam Chatmon; Mississippi blues musician)
Sam Chatmon's advice, p1979: container (b. 1899 in Bolden, Miss.)
Alan Lomax blues songbook [SR] p2003: container (Sam Chatmon) insert (1899-1983 (birth year sometimes given as 1897); member of the Mississippi Sheiks, a family string band active in the 1920s and 30s; performed as soloist during the 60s and 70s)
Herzhaft, G. Encyc. of the blues, 2nd ed.: p. 145-6 (under Mississippi Sheiks: Sam Chatmon (1900-1983); formed Mississippi Sheiks with his brothers ca. 1926; blues guitarist)
Harris, S. Blues who's who, 1981, c1979 (Chatmon, Sam; aka Sam Chatman; b. Jan. 10, 1897, Bolton, MS)
Encyc. of pop. mus., 3rd ed. (Chatmon, Sam; b. Jan. 10, 1897, Bolton, Miss.; d. Feb. 2, 1983, Hollandale, Miss.; guitarist)
Santelli, R. The big book of blues, c2001 (Chatmon, Sam (aka Sam Chatman); b. Jan. 10, 1897, Bolton, Miss.; d. Feb. 2, 1983, Hollandale, Miss.; songster, bluesman, and multi-instrumentalist)
Northwestern University Libraries, Berkeley Folk Music Festival archive, 1957-1970 (ASUC-Superb 15th Annual Berkeley Folk Music Festival Open Air Jubilee Concert, Sunday, October 11 [1970?] (flyer); Mississippi Sam Chatmon)
Associated languageeng