Bo Carter

Bo Carter, born Armenter "Bo" Chatmon, stood apart in his knack for spinning vivid sexual metaphors across his blues numbers, as evidenced by titles like "Banana in Your Fruit Basket," "Pin in Your Cushion," and "Your Biscuits Are Big Enough for Me." During the 1930s he ranked among the era's most widely heard blues performers, generating a catalog substantial enough to fill multiple reissue collections. His inventive approach to guitar work stood out sharply enough that Yazoo issued three such albums drawn from his output. Across those sides, most of them solo vocal-and-guitar affairs, Carter shifted among varied keys and tunings. Beyond the suggestive material, his range comfortably covered weightier blues subjects, and in 1928 he became the first artist to commit the enduring standard "Corrine Corrina" to record. Alongside siblings Lonnie Chatmon and Sam Chatmon, he also performed in the Mississippi Sheiks alongside singer and guitarist Walter Vinson.