Mississippi Sheiks

Recording Artist
Blues

The Mississippi Sheiks — the Chatmon family’s guitar-and-fiddle string band with Walter Vinson — were the most popular Black string band on record in the early 1930s.

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  • “Sitting on Top of the World” (1930) became a standard in blues, western swing, and bluegrass alike.

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