Curley Weaver – The Georgia Guitar Wizard 1928-50 – 2CD

Acrobat has devoted a number of collections to the blues guitarists and singers who represent what is known as the Piedmont school of blues – artists whose roots were in the region surrounding Atlanta, Georgia, and developed a fairly distinctive style of blues during the late 1920s and through the ‘30s, the best-known names including Blind Blake, Barbecue Bob, Blind Willie McTell, Josh White, Blind Boy Fuller and Buddy Moss. Curley Weaver was another prominent Piedmont bluesman, and an especially noted guitarist who was often invited to play on sessions with artists mentioned above, and whose recording career, albeit fitfully, extended through to 1950. This 50-track 2-CD collection comprises recordings under his own name for the Columbia, QRS, Okeh, Banner, Vocalion, Decca, Sittin’ In With and Regal labels. It includes recordings which were duets with Eddie Mapp, Ruth Willis, Fred McMullen, Clarence Moore and Blind Willie McTell along with titles where he performed as a member of the Georgia Cotton Pickers alongside Barbecue Bob and Buddy Moss, and The Georgia Browns, and on which he accompanied Buddy Moss or Blind Willie McTell. It’s a great showcase for a lesser-known blues luminary who nevertheless made a considerable contribution to the Piedmont sub-genre.

Track Listing:

CD1:
Curley Weaver: 1. Sweet Petunia -   2. No No Blues -   Weaver & Mapp: 3. Dirty Deal Blues -   4. Its The Best Stuff Yet -   5. No No Blues -   6. Ta Ta Blues -   Georgia Cotton Pickers: 7. She's Coming Back Some Cold Rainy Day -   8. Diddle Da Diddle -   9. I'm On My Way Down Home -   10. She Looks So Good -   Curley Weaver & Clarence Moore: 11. Wild Cat Kitten -   12. Baby Boogiewoogie -   Curly Weaver & Ruth Willis: 13. Some Cold Rainy Day -   Fred McMullen & Curly Weaver: 14. Poor Stranger Blues -   Curly Weaver: 15. No No Blues -   16. Early Morning Blues -   Georgia Browns: 17. Who Stole De Lock (On The Hen House Door)? -   18. It Must Have Been Her -   Curley Weaver: 19. Leg Iron Blues -   Georgia Browns: 20. Decatur Street 81 -   21. Tampa Strut -  Curly Weaver: 22. Birmingham Gambler -   23. Tipping Tom -   Jim Miller (Georgia Browns): 24. Next Door Man -

CD2:
Jim Miller (Georgia Browns): 1. Joker Man -   Curley Weaver & Blind Willie McTell: 2. You Was Born To Die -   3. Dirty Mistreater -   Curley Weaver: 4. Empty Room Blues -   Blind Willie: 5. Warm It Up To Me -   6. It's A Good Little Thing -  Blind Willie & Partner: 7. Don't You See How This World Made A Change -   Buddy Moss & Partner: 8. Midnight Rambler -   9. Can't Use You No More -   10. Restless Night Blues -   11. Married Man’s Blues -   Curley Weaver: 12. City Cell Blues -   13. Black Woman -  ea 14. Tricks Ain't Walkin' No More -   15. Early Morning Blues -   16. Sometime Mama -   17. Two Faced Woman -   18. Oh Lawdy Mama -   19. Fried Pie Blues -   Curley Weaver And His Guitar: 20. My Baby’s Gone -   21. Ticket Agent -   22. Some Rainy Day -   23. Trixie -   Pig’n Whistle Band: 24. Love Changing Blues -