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Sylvester Weaver discography and songs: Music profile for Sylvester Weaver, born 25 July 1897. Genres: Acoustic Blues, Country Blues. Albums include I Listen to the Wind That Obliterates My Traces: Music in Vernacular Photographs 1880-1955, Guitar Blues / Guitar Rag, and The Slide Guitar: Bottles, Knives & Steel.
18 de mar. de 2002 · Born Sylvester Laflin Weaver Jr. on Dec. 21, 1908, in Los Angeles, Mr. Weaver was the son of a wealthy roofing contractor. He graduated magna cum laude from Dartmouth College in 1930.
25 de jul. de 2015 · Weaver was born in the Louisville, Ky area in 1896 & OKeh Records called him “The Man with the Talking Guitar”. Weaver made history on October 24, 1923, when...
There is an argument that the first "rural" or "country" blues recording was by Sylvester Weaver who recorded two blues instrumentals, "Guitar Blues" and "Gu...
25 de jul. de 2018 · Sylvester Weaver was born on July 25 in either 1896 or ’97, in Louisville, Kentucky. Most details surrounding his early life are lost to the march of time, but it is quite conceivable that he might have been involved in the rich jug band culture surrounding Louisville, which included groups led by Earl McDonald and Buford Threlkeld, better known as Whistler.
27 de ene. de 2023 · Sylvester Weaver (born July 25, 1897 in Louisville, Kentucky; died April 4, 1960 in Louisville, Kentucky) was an American blues guitar player and pioneer of country blues. On October 23, 1923, he recorded in New York with the blues singer Sara Martin Longing for Daddy Blues / I've Got to Go and Leave My Daddy Behind and two weeks later as a soloist Guitar Blues / Guitar Rag.
Sylvester Weaver (July 25, 1897 – April 4, 1960) was an American blues guitar player and a pioneer of country blues. He was the son of Walter and Mattie (nee Embers or Embry) Weaver. Walter Weaver's 1952 Kentucky death certificate indicates that he was born in Port Gibson, Mississippi.
