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Blues Pioneer Sylvester Weaver To Receive New Headstone

07/23/2015
. (The Blues) Blues pioneer Sylvester Weaver is to be honored with a new headstone to on the 119th anniversary of his birth. Now the Kentuckiana Blues Society will replace the plain headstone they'd placed over his previously-unmarked grave in 1992.

Weaver is credited with playing on the very first blues record which featured a guitar-only accompaniment - Sara Martin's Longing For Daddy Blues, released in 1923.

The Louisville musician was known as "the man with the talking guitar" during his recording era. But he'd been largely forgotten and was working as a chauffeur when he died in 1960. Read more here.

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