As with most early Blues musicians, pianist "Big Maceo Merriweather" was self-taught. He developed his piano style by copying players like Leroy Carr and Roosevelt Sykes, as well as from the Boogie-woogie style of Meade Lux Lewis and Albert Ammons. From his birth place in Atlanta, he followed the well trod path of blues musicians to Chicago, where his friend Tampa Red, Introduced him to Lester Melrose who signed him to a recording contract with Bluebird Records.
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