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 "I guess I should have hit the books harder, but now I hit the charts instead," says Chicago blues guitarist Dave Weld.  Dave Weld hit the books hard enough to get his history degree at NMSU in 1975, but it was slide guitar music that really turned him on. When he returned home to Chicago after graduating, he took lessons from blues player J.B. Hutto, hooked up with Hound Dog Taylor's band for about a year and played for a while with Howling Wolf's band. Then he got together with Hutto's nephew, Ed Williams, to form Lil Ed and the Blues Imperials, a band that cooked for about 10 years.Weld's current band, the Imperial Flames, plays what might be called eclectic house-rockin' blues. He still hooks up with Lil Ed on occasion, as evidenced by a recent CD the two did with the Flames for the Earwig label. It's called "Keep On Walkin'" and all of the songs on the CD were written by Williams or Weld except one, which was written by Weld's mentor Hutto. "People say they like our music because it's fresh and original," says Weld. www.rock-on-entertainment.com/performers/DaveWeld.html |
