Armenter "Bo Carter" Chatmon (March 21 1893, in Bolton, Mississippi — September 21, 1964, in Memphis, Tennessee) was a popular early blues musician. He was a member of the Mississippi Sheiks in live performance and on a few of their recordings. Carter also managed that group, which included his brother Lonnie Chatmon on fiddle and occasionally Sam Chatmon on bass, along with a non-relative, Walter Vincson, on guitar and lead vocal. Since the 1960s, Carter has become best known for recording bawdy songs such as "Banana in Your Fruit Basket", "Pin in Your Cushion", "Your Biscuits Are Big Enough for Me" and "My Pencil Won't Write No More". However, his output was not restricted to risqué music. He recorded, in 1928, the original version of "Corrine Corrina," which later became a hit for Big Joe Turner and has become a standard in various musical genres. Carter and his brothers (pianist Harry Chatmon was another who would record) first learned

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