Real name: Walter Vinson

Partner of Lonnie Carter in the Mississippi Sheiks, co-author of the well known song: "Sitting On Top Of The World".
Born probably Miss. (possibly Bolton), c. 1900.
Cousin of the Carter brothers, raised together with them. In the early 1920s, associated with Rube Lacy, Tommy Johnson, Ishmon Bracey, Charlie McCoy in Jackson, Miss. Member of the Mississippi Sheiks, made many records all over the country (1928-36, 1961). Probably still alive in Chicago in 1970.
(from "Deep South Piano" by Karl Gert zur Heide)