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intense listener. I've got to get this right, so I'll just make sure. I've known for years and years and
years that Casey Bill Weldon is quite an enigma and I thought I'll just catch up, getting back to this
thing about booklet notes. I'll just see if I can catch up to see if anything's been found out. Nothing.
Nothing more has been found out. It's the strangest thing with Casey Bill Weldon. He appeared on over

a hundred recordings, 59 songs released under his own name. Very very popular with the record buyer,
but also very popular with the musicians of the time. He was big friends with Bill Broonzy and so many
others, but nothing is known about this man other than that. What do I do? I'm thinking to myself,
Gary, please don't go onto Ancestry, it'll come to no good and then you'll be crying because you've not
got anything done today, but I couldn't help myself, and I did it, and I've got a bit of an inkling about

where he might have come from, but it's not really enough to make any solid statement. Bill Broonzy
said that he was born in Pine Bluff, Arkansas but Bill Broonzy said an awful lot of [untrue] things. I
think that people have been misled by this.
.
BiTS: Well, I have an idea that I want to
offer you as well. You did a CD a couple
of years ago about fiscal malfeasance.

Gillian: Yes, I did, yes.

BiTS: How about something to do with
plagues and pandemics?

Gillian: I thought about it. There are
quite a few, but I didn't know if it was in
bad taste, to be honest with you, Ian. It
has bumped off a lot of folk in the States.
We wouldn't be offended in the UK.

Gary: When we first took Document over
I was talking to Paul Oliver and he said
it is an amazing label. The way that he
described it was, he said there are so
many ways to cut this pack, and it's true. When you really go into it, there's just about every subject

under the sun covered in that catalogue and you could very very easily. My favourite label, to be honest,
all-time favourite was Yazoo, and I loved the themed albums that came along. It had been done before,
of course, and it's certainly been done on the drugs front, but yes, these ideas do glance our minds at
times, but I think that Gill's right, you have to be really careful. I think we realise that when we brought
out Banker's Blues, we realised that we wouldn't have too many people being offended by what we
were doing. There were a lot of people that were kind of on our side. But now that you've said it, again
Gillian and I are going to start thinking now, hmm, well maybe.

Gillian: I think it might be nice as a sort of academic piece or a download. I just feel very awkward. I
know a few people who have topped off with COVID including Toots [Hibbert] out of Toots and the
Maytals, I don't want to hurt anybody, but I do see what you're saying because it covered a lot of this
sort of stuff.

BiTS: It's been wonderful talking to you. I thoroughly enjoyed it. Thank you very much, indeed.

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