Weathersby, Carl

Weathersby, Carl 24 February 1953; Jackson, MS Popular contemporary-style guitarist and singer. Weathersby spent most of his childhood in Meadville, Mississippi. He moved to East Chicago, Indiana, with his parents when he was thirteen. He has cited this “half-rural, half-urban” upbringing as an important influence on his style, which melds traditional Delta blues with modernist tendencies adapted from pop, rock, and R&B. His early influences included soul/blues performers such as Tyrone Davis…