Albums by Bo Carter
ALBUMPolicy BluesBo Carter
ALBUMPolicy Blues: Bo Carter 1931 - 1940Bo Carter
ALBUMRealityBo Carter
ALBUMTwist It Babe (1931-1940)Bo Carter
ALBUMBo Carter, Vol. 1 (1928 - 1931)Bo Carter
ALBUMBo Carter Vol. 3 (1934-1936)Bo Carter
ALBUMBo Carter Vol. 2 (1931 - 1934)Bo Carter
ALBUMBo Carter Vol. 4 (1936-1938)Bo Carter
ALBUMBo Carter, Vol. 5 (1938-1940)Bo Carter
ALBUMBanana In Your Fruit BasketBo Carter
Artist Biography
Bo Carter (Armenter "Bo" Chatmon) had an unequaled capacity for creating sexual metaphors in his songs, specializing in such ribald imagery as "Banana in Your Fruit Basket," "Pin in Your Cushion," and "Your Biscuits Are Big Enough for Me." One of the most popular bluesmen of the '30s, he recorded enough material for several reissue albums, and he was quite an original guitar picker, or else three of those albums wouldn't have been released by Yazoo. (Carter employed a number of different keys and tunings on his records, most of which were solo vocal and guitar performances.) Carter's facility extended beyond the risqué business to more serious blues themes, and he was also the first to record the standard "Corrine Corrina" (1928). Bo and his brothers Lonnie and Sam Chatmon also recorded as members of the Mississippi Sheiks with singer/guitarist Walter Vinson. ~ Jim O'Neal
Hometown
Bolton, MS, United States
Genre
Blues