Pete Welding

b. Peter J. Welding, 15 November 1935, Philadelphia, Pa, USA, d. 17 November 1995, Alta Loma, California, USA. From the first 60s, Welding wrote for DownBeat, contributing over time hundreds of record testimonials on folk, rock and roll and blues produces, in addition to testimonials of books, concerts and membership gigs. Magazine content on very similar topics appeared not merely in DownBeat but additionally in Sunday Review, Rolling Rock, Blues Unlimited among others. He also composed liner notes for most albums and compilations, generally of blues performers and of dark religious music. Like a literary editor, Welding done books on folk music, blues, jazz and areas of American tradition. In the middle-60s and in to the early 70s, Welding co-produced Bo Diddley for Chess Information, as well as for others, and specifically for his personal Testament Information several bluesmen currently employed in Chicago, a few of them less popular but historically important. Among they were Johnny Youthful, along with his Blues Band so when a member from the Chicago String Band, David ‘Honeyboy’ Edwards, Sleepy John Estes, Floyd Jones, Mississippi Fred McDowell, Robert Nighthawk, Houston Stackhouse, Johnny Shines, Otis Spann, Eddie Taylor, and Big Joe Williams. A bibliography of Welding’s intensive writings was put together in 1997 by Görgen Antonsson and it is on the Internet.