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    The Mississippi Sheiks were a popular and influential American guitar and fiddle group of the 1930s. They were notable mostly for playing country blues...
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  • Sitting on Top of the World (category Music of Mississippi)
    by Walter Vinson and Lonnie Chatmon. They were core members of the Mississippi Sheiks, who first recorded it in 1930. Vinson claimed to have composed the...
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    Sam Chatmon (category People from Bolton, Mississippi)
    who was a member of the Mississippi Sheiks. Chatmon was born in Bolton, Mississippi. His family was well known in Mississippi for their musical talents;...
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  • Bo Carter (category People from Bolton, Mississippi)
    with and managed the family group, the Mississippi Sheiks, and several other acts in the area. He and the Sheiks often performed for whites, playing the...
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  • you been so long? I ain't had no lovin', since you've been gone The Mississippi Sheiks, as the Jackson Blue Boys with Papa Charlie McCoy on vocals, recorded...
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    discography". Retrieved July 21, 2015. "Mississippi Sheiks discography". Retrieved July 21, 2015. Bo Carter / Mississippi Sheiks: Jake Leg Blues at AllMusic. Retrieved...
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  • Walter Vinson (category People from Bolton, Mississippi)
    Lonnie Chatmon to form the Mississippi Sheiks. The Sheiks and related groups, such as the Mississippi Mud Steppers, the Mississippi Hot Footers and Blacksnakes...
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  • draws on earlier blues, such as Tommy Johnson's "Big Road Blues", the Mississippi Sheiks' "Stop and Listen Blues", and Charley Patton's "Moon Going Down"....
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    example in the song, "He Calls That Religion", by the blues group Mississippi Sheiks. The lyrics accused Black ministers of engaging in and fomenting sinful...
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    in the song "Frost Texas Tornado Blues" by Texas Alexander and the Mississippi Sheiks, recorded April 9, 1934 in San Antonio, Texas on the Okeh label. Downtown...
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    are set. On April 9, 1934, Alexander recorded with backing by the Mississippi Sheiks. Their line-up featured Bo Carter on violin and Sam Chatman and Walter...
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  • – 5:19 "Overnight Bag" – 4:50 Side two "Shadow Play" – 4:43 "The Mississippi Sheiks" – 5:59 "The Last of the Independents" – 3:57 "Fuel to the Fire" –...
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    parody of The Sheik. Much later, Elvis Presley's film Harum Scarum drew from The Sheik as well. The blues string band The Mississippi Sheiks, active in the...
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    Heavyweight Title [Louisiana & Mississippi]". Wrestling-Titles. Retrieved February 21, 2017. Birthday https://wrestlerdeaths.com/the-sheik-death Tributes II by...
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  • apocalyptical-prophetic persona". "Corrina, Corrina" was recorded by the Mississippi Sheiks, and by their leader Bo Carter in 1928. The song was covered by artists...
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  • Wrong swung more towards rural blues. Two had been recorded by the Mississippi Sheiks, two more by Blind Willie McTell, one by Willie Brown, and another...
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  • musicians at the sessions, possibly Carp. Song actually written by the Mississippi Sheiks, recorded Shreveport, Louisiana, in 1930. Gray, Michael, The Bob Dylan...
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  • lilting melody inspired hundreds of later compositions", including the Mississippi Sheiks' "Sitting on Top of the World" and Robert Johnson's "Come On in My...
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    Retrieved 2011-12-04. Jurek, Thom. "Mississippi Sheiks: Honey Babe Let the Deal Go Down: The Best of the Mississippi Sheiks". AllMusic. Retrieved 2013-01-19...
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  • Del Rey Things About Comin' My Way: A Tribute to the Music of the Mississippi Sheiks (2009) "Here's what's happening in the area". News Gazette. Champaign...
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    the blue yodels heard on late 1920s Race recordings – those by the Mississippi Sheiks, for example – probably do owe something to Jimmie Rodgers' phenomenal...
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  • Tommy Johnson (musician) (category People from Terry, Mississippi)
    at Paramount Records. This resulted in a legal settlement with the Mississippi Sheiks, who had used the melody of Johnson's "Big Road Blues" in their successful...
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  • Tampa Red. Vinson's version is based on his 1930 recording with the Mississippi Sheiks, "Sitting on Top of the World". Both songs share several elements...
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    Morton's Red Hot Peppers, Bunk Johnson, George Lewis, Jim Robinson, the Mississippi Sheiks, Sam Morgan's Jazz Band, Johnny and Baby Dodds, Blind Blake, Blind...
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  • from the melody of "Sitting on Top of the World", recorded by the Mississippi Sheiks in 1930. The couplet at the end of each verse expresses the theme:...
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    Charley Patton (category Blues musicians from Mississippi)
    musicians, as solo performers and as members of groups such as the Mississippi Sheiks. Biographer John Fahey described Patton as having "light skin and...
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    Eddie "Guitar Slim" Jones Sister Rosetta Tharpe 2008 Jimmy McCracklin Mississippi Sheiks Hubert Sumlin Johnny "Guitar" Watson Peetie Wheatstraw Jimmy Witherspoon...
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  • Charley Lincoln Dennis McGee Blind Willie McTell Memphis Jug Band Mississippi Sheiks Charley Patton The Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Band Washington Phillips...
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  • "Come on in My Kitchen", "It Hurts Me Too" by Elmore James, and the Mississippi Sheiks classic "Sittin' on Top of the World". Dylan performed "Pledging My...
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  • Blake's "Diddie Wa Diddie" (recorded as "Diddle-Da-Diddle") and the Mississippi Sheiks' "Sitting on Top of the World" (recorded as "I'm on My Way Down Home")...
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