Casey Bill Weldon
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Casey Bill Weldon (born July 10, 1909, Pine Bluff, Arkansas; died 196?) was an African-American blues musician best known for his slide guitar skill. He played upbeat, almost hokum, tunes, usually in a band. He is best known as a member of the Memphis Jug Band with whom he played and recorded.
In the late 1920s he married Memphis Minnie, and they made several records together in the mid 1930s. In October 1927, when the Victor field recording unit visited Atlanta, Georgia, he recorded two sides, including a chilling, haunting song called "Turpentine Blues," which would have left him immortalized if he had never recorded again. He did not enter another recording studio until eight years later, when he laid down many recordings for Vocalion Records. After his divorce from Memphis Minnie, he disappeared from the public eye and stopped recording by 1938.
His date of death is unknown, though assumed to be sometime in the 1960s.[1]
[edit] Style
He played a National steel guitar flat on his lap Hawaiian style. His slide guitar solos were emotional and unique. His style of playing was influential on the emerging Chicago Blues style.[2]
[edit] References
- ^ Casey Bill Weldon - Biography (Retrieved October 10, 2006)
- ^ Top Ten Blues Recordings (Retrieved October 21, 2006)
