It's a great showcase for a lesser-known blues luminary who nevertheless made a considerable contribution to the Piedmont sub-genre.

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

• Sweet Petunia
• No No Blues
• Dirty Deal Blues
• Its The Best Stuff Yet
• No No Blues
• Ta Ta Blues
• She's Coming Back Some Cold Rainy Day
• Diddle Da Diddle
• I'm On My Way Down Home
• She Looks So Good
• Wild Cat Kitten
• Baby Boogie Woogie
• Some Cold Rainy Day
• Poor Stranger Blues
• No No Blues
• Early Morning Blues
• Who Stole De Lock (On The Hen House Door)?
• It Must Have Been Her
• Leg Iron Blues
• Decatur Street 81
• Tampa Strut
• Birmingham Gambler
• Tipping Tom
• City Cell Blues

• Black Woman
• Next Door Man
• Joker Man
• You Was Born To Die
• Oh Lordy Mama
• Dirty Mistreater
• Empty Room Blues
• Warm It Up To Me
• Midnight Rambler
• Can't Use You No More
• Restless Night Blues
• Married Man's Blues
• Someone Keeps Calling Me
• Tricks Ain't Walkin' No More
• Early Morning Blues
• Sometime Mama
• Two Faced Woman
• Oh Lawdy Mama
• Fried Pie Blues
• My Baby's Gone
• Ticket Agent
• Some Rainy Day
• Trixie
• Love Changing Blues

Additional Details

Label: Acrobat

Genre: Blues

Run Time: 143 mins

Region: 0

Release Date: 05/03/24

UPC: 824046351328