Browsing: Killer Blues Project

It was 1997 when Steve Salter, the owner of a CD distribution business, traveled to Jazzfest. Along the way, he decided to stop and pay his respects to Blues artists that he never got to see in person. What he found would shock him into action.

Casey Bill Weldon, whose whereabouts remained a mystery for decades, lies in an unmarked grave in Kansas City.

St. Louis blues pioneer Milton “Lindberg” Sparks and folklore legend “Stagger” Lee Shelton will be honored with markers this spring.

Blues Hall of Fame inductee and St. Louisan Walter Davis is finally receiving his due reverence in the form of a headstone marking his hitherto unlabeled grave.