AMG Review of Slide Swing Guitar 1927-34

Steve Leggett
All Music Guide

A brilliant acoustic slide guitarist who recorded in the late 1920s and early 1930s, Casey Bill Weldon played with his guitar flat on his lap, in what was then called Hawaiian style, and his tone and attack differed tremendously from the bottleneck approach of the Delta players. This two-disc collection from the French label Fremeaux gives ample evidence of Weldon's slide wizardry, from the swirling sound he generates on "Flood Water Blues," to the almost contemporary sounding tone he produces on "Way Down In Louisiana." A competent songwriter in the swing blues genre of the day, Weldon's most fully realized composition, "We're Gonna Move to the Outskirts of Town," is also collected here.