Casey Bill Weldon (born July 10, 1909, Pine Bluff, Arkansas; died 196?) was an African-American blues musician best known for his slide guitar skill. He played upbeat, almost hokum, tunes usually in a band. He is best known as a member of the Memphis Jug Band with whom he played and recorded. In the late 1920's he married Memphis Minnie and they made some great recordings together in the mid '30s. In October 1927, when the Victor field recording unit visited Atlanta Georgia, he recorded two amazing sides. A chilling, haunted song called, "Turpentine Blues", would have left him immortalized if he had never recorded again. And he almost didn't, not entering another studio for almost 8 years. When he laid down many recordings for Vocalion. After his divorce from Memphis Minnie he pretty much faded away and stopped recording by 1938. And it's not even certain, the year in which died. (sometime in the 1960's)

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