Biography
Maxine Weldon ranks among those remarkably adaptable singers who come to be labeled song stylists, moving with equal ease across soul, jazz, and blues while routinely dissolving the boundaries that separate the three. Her debut albums, Right On and Chilly Wind, appeared on Mainstream between 1970 and 1971; although the projects leaned heavily soul, she drew notable assistance from Jazz Crusaders personnel and additional players. On Monument she next delivered the 1974 release Some Singin', a country-soul effort steeped in Southern atmosphere yet stamped throughout by her instinctive refinement. The set proved her strongest commercial performer, reaching the Top 50 on the R&B album charts. Alone on My Own followed in 1975, after which her recording activity diminished sharply. She continued to perform steadily across subsequent decades nonetheless. Weldon joined the cast of the Broadway production Black and Blue, traveled with its European company from 1995 to 1997, and later assembled the revue "Wild Women Blues" alongside vocalist Linda Hopkins.
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