Bo Carter
b. Armenter Chatmon, 21 March 1893, Bolton, Mississippi, USA, d. 21 September 1964, Memphis, Tennessee, USA. One of Henderson Chatmon's many musical sons, Bo Carter was a performing, and occasionally a recording, member of the family band, the Mississippi Sheiks.He played on guitar and violin, but it was as a solo singer and guitarist that he was best known on record. A talented and original player whose steel guitar provided him with an instantly recognizable sound, he was the first to record Corrine Corrina, and could compose sensitive, introspective songs like Sorry Feeling Blues. However, both his guitar talents and his sensitivity were under-employed on record, where he recorded many tracks with titles like Banana In Your Fruit Basket and Please Warm My Weiner with stereotyped accompaniments. Blindness and changing fashions ended his career in the early '40s, and he died in poverty.