Mississippi Sheiks has been played on NTS in shows including Aaron Angell, featured first on 13 February 2016. Songs played include Sitting On Top Of The World, I Am The Devil and The World Is Going Wrong.

The Mississippi Sheiks were a popular and influential American guitar and fiddle group of the 1930s. They were notable mostly for playing country blues, but were adept at many styles of popular music of the time.

The Mississippi Sheiks consisted mainly of the Chatmon family, who came from Bolton, Mississippi and were well known throughout the Mississippi Delta. The father of the family had been a "musicianer" (someone with…