Tuba Skinny, Still I’m Traveling On by the Mississippi Sheiks, 11/7/25

Описание: Exit Zero Jazz Festival in Cape May, NJ

Recorded 1931 OKeh Records

Take a look at the song used as sound track for a 1930s cartoon!
   • Still I'm Travelin' On___Mississippi Sheik...  

The Mississippi Sheiks were a popular and influential guitar and fiddle group of the 1930s. They were notable mostly for playing country blues but were adept at many styles of United States popular music of the time, and their records were bought by both black and white audiences.
The Mississippi Sheiks consisted mainly of the Chatmon family, who came from Bolton, Mississippi and were well known throughout the Mississippi Delta; the father of the family had been a "musicianer" during times of black slavery, and his children carried on the musical spirit. Their most famous (although by no means permanent) member was Armenter Chatmon - better known as Bo Carter - who managed a successful solo career as well as playing with the Sheiks, which may have contributed to their success.
When the band first recorded in 1930, the line-up consisted of Carter with Lonnie and Sam Chatmon, and Walter Vinson. Charlie McCoy (not to be confused with Charlie McCoy, a later American musician) played later, when Bo Carter and Sam Chatmon ceased playing full time. It was Lonnie Chatmon and Vinson who formed the real center of the group.
In 2004, they were inducted in the Mississippi Musicians Hall of Fame. Their 1930 blues single "Sitting on Top of the World" was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2008.

Shaye Cohn - Cornet and leader
Craig Florey- Clarinet
Barnabus Jones - Trombone
Greg Sherman - Guitar/Vocals
Todd Burdick- Tuba
Robin Rapuzzi - Washboard
Max Bien Kahn - Tenor Banjo

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