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.[1]

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

Cleve Chaffin & The McClung Brothers

Various artists compilations

Notes

  1. ^ a b 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. 200. ISBN 0195139895. 
  3. ^ Tribe, Ivan M. (1984). Mountaineer Jamboree: Country Music In West Virginia. Lexington, KY: The University Press Of Kentucky. pp. 29. ISBN 0813115140. 

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