Song is about the love of Rockin' Blues. Up tempo original with three part harmonies.  The word are centered toward a girl and the audience about how he likes her and wants to bring her into his life.

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SWEET ROCK & SOUL

LOOKING FOR A MAN

Burnin' Love

She's Mine

Talk Dirty

Donnie Lee

Peace of Mind

10 Listen To Mama

All of These Things

12 Things Are So Slow

SHE'S LYIN

Keep on Walkin'

Lonely, Lonely (When Evening Comes)

Born in Chicago in 1952, Dave was first influenced as a child when he found an old Victrola in the basement and wore out the blues 78's. In high school the Stones, Clapton and Mayall first came out but Dave traded those records for Howlin' Wolf, Lightnin Hopkins, and BB King.After high school Weld moved to New Mexico, and studied guitar under Kurt Black, a jazz player who worked with Benny Carter, Grant Green and others in the New York jazz scene. Also he drove to Nevada and met and jammed with Gatemouth Brown. Weld bought Hound Dog Taylor's first Alligator album, heard Howlin Wolf over the radio in the desert one night, packed up and drove back home in his 67' Ford, and made it with $10 to spare.Dave found out the West side of Chicago in the black hood was friendlier than the North side, and started sitting in at clubs, and landed a gig with Hound Dog Taylor's band, Brewer Phillips, Ted Harvey, at Sweet Peas on 43rd St. While there a year, there were shake dancers and fistfights. The gig ended when Brewer was stabbed in the throat by his wife, but they reconciled.
Weld then moved to the 1815 Club on W. Roosevelt, owned and operated by Eddie Shaw who had Howlin Wolfs band, the Wolf Pack. Dave stayed there and played in the band with Chico Chism, Lafayette Gilbert, Hubert Sumlin, Detroit Junior, and Eddie Shaw. The going rate was $15 per night, but Dave played there with Otis Rush, Maxwell St. Jimmy, Guitar Junior, Jew Town Burks, Doug Macdonald, Boston Blackie, Tail Dragger, Little Wolf, Big Bad Ben, Little Aurthur, Johnny Littlejohn and more. The gig ended when the band was taken to the Maxwell St. lockup because of the nude dancers. Shaw bailed them out.
Dave's first band! Hound Dog Taylor's group of Brewer Philips and Ted Harvey. They had been working with JB Hutto after Hound Dog's death, and after they came back from breaking iff with JB in Boston, they had a little house gig at Sweet Pea's. Weld joined the band and played with them for a year.Brewer Philip and Ted Harvey are well known because their music started Alligator Records, the world largest blues label. Brewer learned from Memphis Minnie, one of the most famous women in blues history!  Discovered by Bruce Igauer from Alligator who recorded Dave Weld and Lil' Ed and The Blues Imperial in a historic session "Roughousin'" and they started world tours.  In 1976 Dave Weld was a writer for Living Blues Magazine, this when his life changed forever. He met and wrote an story about J.B. Hutto. The issue was published Nov-Dec and rest is history. They became lifelong friends. During this time Weld was under tutelage from JB Hutto, a Grammy awarded Blues Hall of Fame slide man from Georgia. He studied at JB's house for three years until JB introduced Dave to his nephews, Little Ed and James Young. They started the band "Little Ed and the Blues Imperials" and played every joint in the West side for ten years. About $15 a night, until Bruce Igauer from Alligator recorded them in a historic session "Roughousin'" and they started world tours. In 1988 Dave decided to start his own band "Dave Weld and the Imperial Flames" first releasomg in 1988' "Rough Rockin in Chicago" on Blue Sting Records.  In 1996 Weld was joined by Lil Ed and together the Imperial Flames released their sophomore album "Keep On Walkin" on the Earwig label. Lil Ed joined Dave's band twice for two years each time and the second time they recorded for Earwig Music, "Keep on Walkin'". In 2009-2010 Weld recorded his first Delmark recording "Burnin Love" produced by Bob Koester and again in 2015 with "Slip Into A Dream"

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