Casey Bill Weldon

Will Weldon

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Will Weldon
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b : 1909, July 10 in Arkansas (probably)
d : ??

Blues slide guitar player (he was considered as an "Hawaiian" guitarist), Casey Bill Weldon has recorded more than hundred records from 1927 to 1938 in Memphis, then Chicago.
It is suggested that he married Memphis Minnie.
Rest of his life is totally unknown, some people claims that he moved to Detroit and left the music world in the '60s, other people thinks that he was called up in 1941 in the forces and died in combat.
Another bluesman, Ted Bogan, said he met him in 1968 in Chicago.
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Releases:
Slide Guitar Swing 1927 - 1938 (2xCD, Comp)   Frémeaux & Associés 2002
Appears On:
The Blues Giant (LP, Album) Outskirts Of Town Isabel 1979
Memphis Jug Bands - Walk Right In (CD, Comp) Sun Brimmer's Blues, S... Orbis 1996
L'Histoire Du Jazz Vocal - The Story Of Vocal Jazz: Part 1 (1911 - 1940) (10xCD, Comp) Peaches In The Springt... Le Chant Du Monde 2004
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