Cleve Chaffin

Cleve Chaffin

Cleve Chafin (1885 - 1959) was a carnival musician who recorded old-time music during the 1920s.

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Biography

Chafin was from Wayne County, West Virginia, the son of Alice Adkins and Bob Chafin[1]. He first recorded a solo session in Richmond, Indiana for Gennett Records on November 16, 1927[2], but the recordings were never issued. He may also have recorded a session for Paramount Records in 1928 with two men named Stevens and Bolar as Fruit Jar Guzzlers. In Chicago, Illinois, Chaffin recorded six songs with John & Emery McClung for Paramount Records. These records were released as by Cleve Chaffin and The McClung Brothers. Chaffin continued his professional music career, but never recorded again[3]. He died on December 10, 1959 in Huntington, West Virginia at the age of 74.[4]

According to the Thirteenth Census of the United States in 1910, a Cleve Chafin, who was born in Kentucky and aged 22, was a prisoner at the city jail in Cabell County, West Virginia at the time of the census.

Discography

Unreleased 1927 Gennett recordings

  • Sweet Bunch Of Daisies
  • Aged Mother
  • The Night My Mother Died
  • Curtain Of Night
  • Wreck Of The C&O
  • Railroad Bill

Cleve Chaffin & The McClung Brothers

  • Babylon Is Falling Down/I Got A Home In The Beulah Land (Paramount #3160) (3/1929)
  • Trail Blazer's Favorites/Alabama Jubilee (Paramount #3161) (3/1929)
  • Rock House Gamblers/Curtains Of Night (Paramount #3170) (3/1929)

Various artists compilations

  • My Rough And Rowdy Ways Volume One (Yazoo #2039) (1998)
  • Old Time Music Of West Virginia Volume Two (County #CD-3519) (1999)
  • The Half Ain’t Never Been Told Volume Two (Yazoo #2050) (1999)
  • Country Music Classic (Vintage78 #C-53) (cassette)
  • Paramount Old Time Recordings (JSP) (3-CD set) (2006)

Notes

  1. ^ http://www.wvculture.org/vrr/va_view.aspx?Id=4534972&Type=Death
  2. ^ Tony Russell, & Bob Pinson (2001). Country Music Records: A Discography, 1921-1942. Nashville, TN: Oxford University Press. pp. p. 200. ISBN:0195139895. 
  3. ^ Tribe, Ivan M. (1984). Mountaineer Jamboree: Country Music In West Virginia. Lexington, KY: The University Press Of Kentucky. pp. p. 29. ISBN:0813115140. 
  4. ^ http://www.wvculture.org/vrr/va_view.aspx?Id=4534972&Type=Death

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