Carl Weathersby

Carlton Weathersby (February 24, 1953 – August 9, 2024) was an American electric blues vocalist, guitarist, and songwriter. He worked with Albert King and Billy Branch, among others, and had a career as a solo artist. He was nominated for the W. C. Handy Award for Best New Blues Artist in 1997. He spent his early years in Meadville, Mississippi, a place he still considered home, although when he was aged eight, his family moved to East Chicago, Indiana. Eventually the band hired Weathersby as their full-time guitarist, a position he held for the next fifteen years.

Solo years (1995–2024) His position as guitarist for the Sons of Blues earned him a name among the blues fans of Chicago, it also left him feeling discontented.

Because of his growing popularity, Evidence Records released Weathersby's first album, Don't Lay Your Blues on Me, in 1996,

Weathersby died on August 9, 2024, at the age of 71.

Discography Solo albums 1996: Don't Lay Your Blues on Me (Evidence) 1997: Looking Out My Window (Evidence) 1998: Restless Feeling (Evidence) 2000: Come to Papa (Evidence) 2003: Best of Carl Weathersby (Evidence) 2004: In the House: Live at Lucerne Vol. 5 (CrossCut) 2005: Hold On, Louisiana (Red Hot) 2009: I'm Still Standing Here (Magnolia) 2004: Charles Wilson, If Heartaches Were Nickels (Delmark) 2004: Nora Jean Bruso, Going Back to Mississippi (Severn) 2004: Sam Cockrell & the Groove, I'm in the Business (Boom Boom) 2005: Mississippi Heat, Glad You're Mine (CrossCut) 2005: Biscuit Miller, Come Together 2005: Little Milton, Think of Me (Telarc) 2008: Mississippi Heat, "Hattiesburg Blues" (Delmark) 2005: Bernard Allison, Larry McCray, Carl Weathersby, Lucky Peterson, Triple Fret JSP 2010: Mississippi Heat, John Primer, Carl Weathersby, Let's Live It Up! (Delmark)