Time: 50:32
File: Flac
Released: 1987
Styles: Blues
Art: Full
1. Sweet Petunia (3:23)
2. No No Blues (3:13)
3. Baby Boogie Woogie (3:10)
4. Wild Cat Kitten (3:16)
5. No No Blues (3:13)
6. Leg Iron Blues (3:18)
7. Some Cold Rainy Day (2:43)
8. Tippin' Tom (3:01)
9. Birmingham Gambler (2:56)
10. Decatur Street 81 (2:47)
11. Black Woman (3:18)
12. City Cell Blues (3:16)
13. Sometime Mama (3:10)
14. Oh Lawdy Mama (3:20)
15. Two Faced Woman (3:10)
16. Fried Pie Blues (3:12)
Curley Weaver (March 26, 1906, Covington, Georgia - September 20, 1962, Almon, Georgia) was an American blues guitarist who played and recorded with Barbecue Bob and, most notably, Blind Willie McTell. He was known as The Guitar Wizzard of Georgia.
He learned to sing and play the guitar at a young age from his mother, Savannah Weaver, who also taught guitar playing to Robert Hicks (Barbecue Bob) and his brother Charlie. Weaver also learned thanks to Nehemiah Smith, Blind Buddie Keith and, for example, Charlie Jackson. He became friends with the Hicks brothers and harmonica player Eddie Mapp and played with them in Newton County and, later, in Atlanta's Decatur Street area.
After Barbecue Bob's first record successes, Weaver also had the opportunity to record: in October 1928 he recorded 'No No Blues' and 'Sweet Petunia' for Columbia Records. A year later, recordings for QRS Records followed in New York, with Mapp and Guy Lumpkin. In 1930 he recorded as a member of the Georgia Cotton Pickers (alongside the Hicks brothers). In this group he also met Buddy Moss, with whom he played in the Georgia Browns group. He accompanied Ruth Wllis and Lillie Mae and around 1933 played besides Moss mainly with the local star Blind Willie McTell. With McTell, Weaver would play with great success for over twenty years: Weaver on the six-string guitar, McTell on a twelve-string. He recorded for ARC in 1933 with both Buddy Moss and McTell. He also made solo recordings for this label. In 1935 he went back into the studio with McTell, now for Decca; they were the last recordings before the war. The pre-war years were difficult for blues musicians and few recordings were made.
The recordings he made after the war for Regal Records (1950, with McTell) and Sittin' In With were his last. Weaver and McTell stopped playing together in the late 1950s. His career more or less came to a halt due to the deterioration of his eyesight.
Georgia Guitar Wizard: 1928 - 1935 FLAC