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Presenting Bo Carter

6.2M streams

6,190,067

Banana In Your Fruit Basket

5.4M streams

5,443,368

Bo Carter's Advice

5M streams

5,011,612

Sorry Feeling Blues

653.1K streams

653,130

Bo Carter Vol. 1 (1928 - 1931)

460.2K streams

460,194

Bo Carter Vol. 2 (1931 - 1934)

382.9K streams

382,941

Twist It Babe (1931-1940)

312.2K streams

312,236

Blue Comedy Bluesman

295.9K streams

295,882

Bo's Thirties

245.9K streams

245,891

Twist and Shake

115.9K streams

115,914

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, Rovi