Bottleneck Blues - Music
Bottleneck Blues by Sylvester Weaver
Sylvester Weaver
Artist Biography For Sylvester Weaver
Sylvester Weaver Born July 25 1897 In Louisville Kentucky Died April 4 1960 In Louisville Kentucky Was An American Blues Guitar Player And Pioneer Of Country Blues. On October 23 1923 He Recorded In New York With The Blues Singer Sara Martin Longing For Daddy Blues / I've Got To Go And Leave My Daddy Behind And Two Weeks Later As A Soloist Guitar Blues / Guitar Rag. Both Recordings Were Released On Okeh Records. These Recordings Are The Very First Country-Blues Recordings And The First Known Recorded Songs Using The Slide Guitar Style. Guitar Rag Played On A Guitjo Became A Blues Classic And Was Covered In The 1930's By Bob Wills And The Texas Playboys As Steel Guitar Rag And Became A Country Music Standard Too. Weaver Recorded Until 1927 Sometimes Accompanied By Sara Martin About 50 Additional Songs. On Some Recordings From 1927 He Was Accompanied By Walter Beasley And The Singer Helen Humes. Weaver Often Used The Bottleneck-Style Method Playing His Guitar With A Knife. His Recordings Were Quite Successful But In 1927 He Retired And Went Back To Louisville Until His Death In 1960. Though Many Country Blues Artists Had A Revival From The 1950's On Weaver Died Almost Forgotten. In 1992 His Complete Works Were Released On Two CDs The Same Year His Up To Then Anonymous Grave Got A Headstone By Engagement Of The Louisville-Based Kentuckiana Blues Society KBS . Furthermore The KBS Has Annually Honored Since 1989 Persons Who Rendered Outstanding Services To The Blues With Their Sylvester Weaver Award.
47 Similar Tracks:
Sylvester Weaver - Can't Be Trusted Blues Sylvester Weaver - Soft Steel Piston Casey Bill Weldon - The Twelves The Dirty Dozens Blind Lemon Jefferson - See That My Grave's Kept Clean Blind Lemon Jefferson - Match Box Blues Hambone Willie Newbern - Roll And Tumble Blues Floyd Jones - Dark Road J.B. Hutto - Hip Shakin' Homesick James - Crossroads Bob Brozman - Little Tough Guy Blues Stefan Grossman - Police Dog Blues A.C. Reed - I Can't Go This Way Sam Mitchell - Dark Was The Night, Cold Was The Ground Robert Petway - Rockin Chair Blues Robert Petway - Ride Em On Down A.C. Reed - Going To New York Monster Mike Welch - All The Love In The World Cannon's Jug Stompers - Minglewood Blues Robert Belfour - My Baby's Gone J.B. Hutto - Leave Your Love In Greater Hands Otto Virgial - Little Girl In Rome Etta Baker - Careless Love Bumble Bee Slim - Prison Bound Blues Bumble Bee Slim - Christmas And No Santa Claus Scrapper Blackwell - Nobody Knows You When You're Down And Out Scrapper Blackwell - Little Boy Blue Casey Bill Weldon - Two Timin' Woman Texas Alexander - Range In My Kitchen Blues Kokomo Arnold - Shake That Thing Remastered Mississippi Fred McDowell - You're Gonna Be Sorry John Jackson - Fire John Jackson - Police Dog Blues Mississippi Fred McDowell - Trouble Everywhere I Go Jimmy Rogers - That's Alright Son House - Sun Goin' Down Bukka White - Army Blues Son House - My Black Mama, Part 1 Jimmy Rogers - Howlin' For My Darling Charley Patton - High Water Everywhere Pt. 1 Bukka White - Poor Boy Long Way From Home Henry Thomas - Bulldoze Blues Bumble Bee Slim - The Longest Day You Live, Part 2 Bumble Bee Slim - Cruel Hearted Woman Blues, Part 1 Bumble Bee Slim - Mean Mistreatin Woman Bumble Bee Slim - Cruel Hearted Woman Blues, Part 2 Bumble Bee Slim - The Longest Day You Live, Part 1 Bumble Bee Slim - Im Waitin On You
POPULAR
TRACKS
MIXES
ALBUMS
Video 1 : 50
Music Tags for Sylvester Weaver:
Biography - Sylvester Weaver
Sylvester Weaver Born July 25 1897 In Louisville Kentucky Died April 4 1960 In Louisville Kentucky Was An American Blues Guitar Player And Pioneer Of Country Blues. On October 23 1923 He Recorded In New York With The Blues Singer Sara Martin Longing For Daddy Blues / I've Got To Go And Leave My Daddy Behind And Two Weeks Later As A Soloist Guitar Blues / Guitar Rag. Both Recordings Were Released On Okeh Records. These Recordings Are The Very First Country-Blues Recordings And The First Known Recorded Songs Using The Slide Guitar Style. Guitar Rag Played On A Guitjo Became A Blues Classic And Was Covered In The 1930's By Bob Wills And The Texas Playboys As Steel Guitar Rag And Became A Country Music Standard Too. Weaver Recorded Until 1927 Sometimes Accompanied By Sara Martin About 50 Additional Songs. On Some Recordings From 1927 He Was Accompanied By Walter Beasley And The Singer Helen Humes. Weaver Often Used The Bottleneck-Style Method Playing His Guitar With A Knife. His Recordings Were Quite Successful But In 1927 He Retired And Went Back To Louisville Until His Death In 1960. Though Many Country Blues Artists Had A Revival From The 1950's On Weaver Died Almost Forgotten. In 1992 His Complete Works Were Released On Two CDs The Same Year His Up To Then Anonymous Grave Got A Headstone By Engagement Of The Louisville-Based Kentuckiana Blues Society KBS . Furthermore The KBS Has Annually Honored Since 1989 Persons Who Rendered Outstanding Services To The Blues With Their Sylvester Weaver Award.
read less
read more
16 Similar Artists To Sylvester Weaver - Frogtoon Music
Papa Charlie Jackson Casey Bill Weldon Curley Weaver St. Louis Jimmy Oden WEAVER & BEASLEY Lemuel Turner Johnnie Temple Buddy Woods Johnny Temple Doctor Ross Kokomo Arnold Robert Wilkins Mamie Smith King Solomon Hill Barbecue Bob Bayless Rose.