Cat No 5143

Complete releases on Chess subsiduary Checker from Sugar Boy Crawford and his band, known as the Cane Cutters on these recordings but performing in their native New Orleans as Chapaka Shaweez (the group augmented by Snooks Eaglin on guitar on many of these cuts). Crawford’s highly original Jock-O-Mo has been a Mardi Gras favourite ever since and has been much recorded under the title Iko Iko . However popular the band’s live performances remained locally, they weren’t selling enough records and Leonard Chess didn’t renew their one year contract.