Cleve Chaffin
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Cleve Chaffin (1885 - 1959) was a carnival musician who recorded old-time music during the 1920's.
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[edit] Biography
Cleve was from Wayne County, West Virginia. He first recorded a solo session for Gennett Records in 1927, but the recordings were never issued. He also may 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 still continued with his professional music career, but never recorded again.
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.
[edit] Singles
[edit] 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)
[edit] 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)
[edit] Book references
- Mountain Jamboree: Country Music In West Virginia (by Ivan M. Tribe) (The University Press Of Kentucky) (1984)
