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    Walter Vinson

    Country blues singer and guitarist.

    Born: February 2, 1901 near Bolton, Mississippi
    Died: April 22, 1975 in Chicago, Illinois

    Walter Vinson, the Chatmon's (Bo Chatman, [a=Lonnie Chatman] and Sam Chatmon) neighbor, erroneously known as "Walter Vincson" and "Walter Vincent", sometimes recorded as "Walter Jacobs" (using his mother's maiden name).
    Vinson recorded extensively 1929-1941, often with Mississippi Sheiks or with musicians from that circle. He recorded again for Riverside in 1961, and as a member of The New Mississippi Sheiks in 1972. Mostly inactive due to illness in his last years.

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