Bo Carter

Artist

Bo Carter

country blues blues classic blues ragtime
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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 <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22Yazoo%22">Yazoo</a>. (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 <a href="spotify:artist:43zvSKiJXk1dzluo4Vum5J">Sam Chatmon</a> also recorded as members of <a href="spotify:artist:1yhcG1yQNDC2i8JHlB3HRo">the Mississippi Sheiks</a> with singer/guitarist <a href="spotify:artist:0wvOTeactJwecF9VNhJG5O">Walter Vinson</a>. ~ Jim O'Neal, Rovi

Monthly Listeners

7,065

Followers

13,516

Total Streams

11.5 million

Top Cities

United Kingdom London
96 listeners
United States Chicago
79 listeners
United States Los Angeles
75 listeners
Australia Sydney
71 listeners
United States New York City
77 listeners

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Popular Tracks

228 tracks
1
All Around Man

All Around Man

Jan 9, 1929

4.8 million

streams

2
Sitting on Top of the World

Sitting on Top of the World

Mar 2, 2012

998,389

streams

3
Warm My Weiner

Warm My Weiner

Jan 9, 1929

347,973

streams

4
Please Warm My Weiner

Please Warm My Weiner

Jan 9, 1929

347,973

streams

5
Banana in Your Fruit Basket

Banana in Your Fruit Basket

Dec 23, 1929

235,913

streams

6
Banana In Your Fruit Basket

Banana In Your Fruit Basket

Jan 9, 1929

235,913

streams

7
Banana in your fruit basket

Banana in your fruit basket

Jan 20, 2014

235,913

streams

8
Cigarette Blues

Cigarette Blues

Jan 9, 1929

202,032

streams

9
Get the Blues

Get the Blues

Jul 24, 2019

164,486

streams

10
I Get The Blues

I Get The Blues

Jun 14, 2016

164,486

streams

Releases

27 releases
Southern Risqué - The Humorous Blues of Bo Carter

Southern Risqué - The Humorous Blues of Bo Carter

2025

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Blues Classics
Blue Comedy Bluesman

Blue Comedy Bluesman

2023

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Frank Goldy
Bo's Thirties

Bo's Thirties

2021

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Astigmatic
Instinctively the Blues - Bo Carter

Instinctively the Blues - Bo Carter

2020

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Recovery Recordings
Mississippi Rolling Blues - The Blues of Bo Carter

Mississippi Rolling Blues - The Blues of Bo Carter

2019

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Big Buzz Productions
Twist and Shake

Twist and Shake

2018

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ITSrecords
Banana in Your Fruit Basket / My Pencil Won´t Write No More

Banana in Your Fruit Basket / My Pencil Won´t Write No More

2016

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EARTH-VOX
Doubled Up In A Knot

Doubled Up In A Knot

2016

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Edizione Jazz
Policy Blues

Policy Blues

2016

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Jazz League Music
Sorry Feeling Blues

Sorry Feeling Blues

2015

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Suncoast Music