Curley Weaver

Curley Weaver ( born March 26, 1906 in Covington, Georgia, † September 20, 1962 in Almon, Georgia ), known as the Georgia Guitar Wizard ( guitar sorcerer from Georgia), was an American blues guitarist and singer. Weaver was known mainly in a duo with Blind Willie McTell. Both were guitar virtuosos, McTell on the 12-string, Weaver on the 6- string guitar.

As a child, Weaver learned to play the guitar from his mother Savanah Shepard, from (known as Barbecue Bob) it also got the brothers Charlie ( aka Laughing Charley Lincoln) and Robert Hicks. From the legendary early Blue men Nehemiah Smith and Blind Buddy Keith Weaver learned the slide guitar playing. At age 19, he moved to Atlanta, along with the harmonica player Eddie Mapp. The two teamed up with the Hicks brothers and played music in bars and clubs.

1928 Weaver made ​​on the recommendation of Barbecue Bob his first recordings Sweet Petunia and No No Blues. More shots followed, both solo and with Eddie Mapp, Barbecue Bob and the Georgia Cotton Pickers. He learned the only 16 -year-old harmonica player Buddy Moss, with whom he appeared as the Georgia Browns. However, his most prolific, more than 20 years of cooperation had Weaver with Blind Willie McTell.

The 1930s were difficult years for Curley Weaver: the great depression crippled the recording industry, Barbecue Bob died young, Eddie Mapp was killed and the 21 -year-old Moss went to years in prison. Weaver continued to make music, including with McTell, later with Moss. End of the 1950s he went blind.

Curley Weaver died in 1962 and did not live to the Blue Revival of the 1960s.

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