Casey Bill Weldon

Steel guitarist Can Weldon is remembered seeing that Casey Expenses Weldon, and was also known in his period as Kansas Town Expenses and Levee Joe. “Casey”, like “KC” or “Kaycee,” described his links with the Kansas Town music picture, although he could just like easily have already been called after Pine Bluff, AK where he was created in 1909, or Atlanta or Memphis where he produced his 1st recordings in 1927 after carrying out in medicine displays through the entire south. Inspired straight by the fantastic Peetie Wheatstraw, Weldon was similarly adept at expressing himself as a separate blues singer so when a honky-tonk “nation” performer who added to the introduction of Traditional western golf swing. He was occasionally billed because the Hawaiian Acoustic guitar Wizard. The “Acoustic guitar Wizard” deal with was lent from Tampa Crimson whereas the Polynesian research stems back again through Sol Hoopi’s impact on the transport of guitars by Portuguese sailors within the 18th hundred years, and the next advancement of the metal acoustic guitar by indigenous Hawaiians. Weldon’s usage of the metal (instead of bottleneck slip) guitar like a blues device was innovative, and his stylistic options have since produced him hard to pigeonhole. Occasions resulting in the dissolution of his short-lived relationship to Memphis Minnie might have influenced his three best-known music, that are staples within the traditional blues repertoire: “Somebody’s Surely got to Proceed,” “Someone Transformed the Lock on My Door,” and “We Gonna Proceed to the Outskirts of City.” Weldon documented thoroughly under his personal name through the years 1935-1938. Additionally, an intensive study of his 11-12 months recording profession reveals collaborations with Memphis Minnie, the Memphis Jug Music group, Charlie Burse & the Picaninny Jug Music group, Vol Stevens, Ollie Rupert, Leroy Henderson, Arnett Nelson, Tampa Crimson, Big Costs Broonzy, Charlie & Joe McCoy, Amos Easton (also called Bumble Bee Slim); Blind Teddy Darby, the Hokum Young boys, the Dark brown Bombers of Golf swing, Washboard Sam, and undoubtedly Peetie Wheatstraw, the Devil’s Son-in-Law. Although no studio room recordings appear to have been produced after Dec 1938, Weldon may have got performed using an electrically amplified electric guitar in 1941, and carrying out a proceed to Los Angeles, he could be known to possess supplied incidental music for film soundtracks. In 1968, guitarist Ted Bogan went into him in Chicago. Weldon informed him he previously given up being truly a musician and was involved in some various other line of function in Detroit. Probably that’s where he passed away. Almost 60 years once they initial appeared, Casey Costs Weldon’s major recordings had been reissued in three amounts with the Record label, and different choices of his functions have got since been shown by Document’s offshoot Basic Blues along with the EPM, Catfish, and Fremeaux brands. It is unlucky that Weldon will not show up on Proper’s Steelin’ It: The Metal Electric guitar Story, but neither will the amazing Ceele Burke, who documented with Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, and Excess fat Waller within the ‘30s. Nor will Luther Jones, whose Hawaiian-style metal electric guitar added luster towards the provocative “Grunt Meats Blues” as documented from the Memphis Seven in 1947 and reissued years later on in Columbia’s package set Origins n’ Blues: The Retrospective 1925-1950, a multi-racial, multi-genre collection with an extended personnel listing which inturn does not consist of Casey Expenses Weldon.