Casey Bill Weldon~Slide Guitar Swing 1927-1934~2CD [FLAC] {MKOP}

Casey Bill Weldon~The Blues: Slide Guitar Swing 1927-1934~2CD (Fremeaux & Associes) [FLAC] {MKOP}

Among the premier Hawaiian guitarists, Will Casey Bill Weldons voicings, fluidity and tunings were creative and imaginative, as were his arrangements. He was married to Memphis Minnie in the 20s, and they made some superb recordings together in the late 20s. Weldon played in medicine shows before beginning his recording career in 1927 for Victor. There were later dates for Champion, Vocalion and Bluebird. Weldon recorded and played with The Memphis Jug Band, Charlie Burse and the Picaninny Jug Band, and the Brown Bombers of Swing. He moved to the West Coast in the 40s and purportedly recorded for several soundtracks. Weldon moved to Detroit and left the music world in the 60s.~Ron Wynn

A brilliant acoustic slide guitarist who recorded in the late 1920s and early 1930s, Casey Bill Weldon played with his guitar flat on his lap, in what was then
called Hawaiian style, and his tone and attack differed tremendously from the bottleneck approach of the Delta players. This two-disc collection from the French label Fremeaux gives ample evidence of Weldon's slide wizardry, from the swirling sound he generates on "Flood Water Blues," to the almost contemporary sounding tone he produces on "Way Down In Louisiana." A competent songwriter in the swing blues genre of the day, Weldon's most fully realized composition, "We're Gonna Move to the Outskirts of Town," is also collected here.~Steve Leggett (allmusic)

Disc 1
01. Turpentine Blues
02. Hitch Me to Your Buggy and Drive Me Like a Mule
03. Doctor's Blues
04. Please Come on Down to My House
05. Brown Skin Woman
06. Street Walkin' Blues
07. Somebody Changed the Lock on That Door
08. Flood Water Blues
09. Has My Gal Been Here?
10. You Just as Well Let Her Go
11. Streamline Woman
12. Talkin' to Myself
13. Two Timin' Woman
14. I Believe I'll Make a Change
15. The Big Boat
16. Gonna Take My Time
17. We Gonna Move to the Outskirts of Town
18. Back Door Blues

Disc 2
01. Oh! Red
02. You Waited Too Long
03. Round and Round
04. I'll Get a Break Someday
05. No Good Woman
06. Guitar Swing
07. Walkin' in My Sleep
08. Sales Lady
09. Lady Doctor Blues
10. Casey Bill's New W.P.A.
11. You Shouldn't Do That
12. Rooster Blues
13. Go Ahead Buddy
14. Red Hot Blues
15. I Believe You're Cheatin' on Me
16. Way Down in Louisiana
17. You Gotta Do Your Duty
18. Midnight Blues

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