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Cora Mae Bryant (Cora Mae Weaver) was born on 1 May, 1926 in Oxford, Newton County, Georgia, United States, is an American singer. Discover Cora Mae Bryant's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 82 years old?

Popular As Cora Mae Weaver
Occupation Singer, songwriter
Age 82 years old
Zodiac Sign Taurus
Born 1 May 1926
Birthday 1 May
Birthplace Oxford, Newton County, Georgia, United States
Date of death 30 October, 2008
Died Place Oxford, Newton County, Georgia, United States
Nationality Georgia

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1926

Cora Mae Bryant (May 1, 1926 – October 30, 2008) was an American blues musician.

She was the daughter of another American blues musician, Curley Weaver.

Bryant released two solo albums in her lifetime on the Music Maker label.

Part of her home in Oxford, Georgia, was thought of as a 'blues museum'.

1930

Her own music largely derived from the influence of attending impromptu performances and house parties, including her father, plus Blind Willie McTell, Buddy Moss, and other local blues musicians of the early 1930s.

She was born Cora Mae Weaver in Oxford, Newton County, Georgia, United States.

She was the daughter of Curley Weaver, and started singing at the age of six in the New Bethel Baptist Church in Walnut Grove, Georgia.

With her father often absent performing and recording, Bryant was part-raised by her grandmother, Savannah Shepard, who lived in Almon, Georgia.

Bryant often spent days and nights with her grandmother, who had both a piano and guitar, and often played them and sang to entertain the young girl.

Bryant maintained that was where her father had earlier obtained his own basic musical intuition.

She once said, "When the weekend came, Daddy would come and get me. We did not know the difference between night and day."

She started attending fish fries and barbecues around her home state with her father, and through these connections got to meet Buddy Moss, Blind Willie McTell and others, including the unrecorded guitarist Johnny Guthrie.

They played generally outside for the entertainment of locals and Bryant obtained her education in Georgia blues.

She later found casual employment in her mid-twenties, with her father picking cotton for a living.

1962

Curley Weaver died in 1962.

Bryant began to perform in her own right, although one researcher wryly noted that "Clyde Langford and Cora Mae Bryant, kin to Lightnin' Hopkins and Curley Weaver respectively, but very distant from them in talent".

Her own songwriting was slow to get started, but Bryant found the process easy to accomplish.

She stated "I don't get no pencil and write 'em. One song, we was sittin' up there just talkin', me and my granddaughter, and I said, "Yeah, if you got anything in layaway, you better get it out." And I made a song of that".

Also, Bryant's knowledge of early blues in Atlanta and Georgia, was used as a source by the music historians Peter B. Lowry and Bruce Bastin.

1996

Her song "You Was Born to Die" had previously appeared on the compilation album, fRoots 7 (1996), while "It Was Weaver" appeared on Soul Bag N°192 (2008).

1997

Her own recording career was late in commencing before Dave Peabody's 1997 album, Down in Carolina, contained a guest appearance from Bryant on her penned track, "McTell, Moss, & Weaver".

She gradually became important on the Atlanta blues scene; performing, organizing "Giving It Back" festivals at the city's Northside Tavern to honor early blues artists, and as a frequent caller to local blues radio shows.

In addition, her collection of memorabilia continued to expand; "... a little pale gray bench, that she said Blind Willie McTell used to sit on to play" was donated to Bryant's 'museum' housed in a side room in her home in Oxford.

1998

Bryant was the subject of articles in both Living Blues magazine in February 1998 and in Music Makers in 2002.

2001

In 2001, Bryant recorded her debut album, Born with the Blues, which was released on the supportive Music Maker label.

2002

In July 2002, Bryant appeared at the Mississippi Valley Blues Festival, accompanied by the guitarist Josh Jacobson, performing songs from Born with the Blues.

2003

Further tracks were included on Music Maker's own compilation, Sisters of the South (2003).

Her own second label, Born in Newton County, came out the same year.

2005

In 2005, Bryant was living at home in Oxford when suffered a stroke.

2008

She died of natural causes on the morning of October 30, 2008, at the age of 82.

2014

"It Was Weaver" had been aired in June 2014, on a NTS Radio show hosted by Charlie Bones.

2015

Bryant's track, "Born to Die" was played by Cerys Matthews on the UK's BBC Radio 2 in April 2015.