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Leo Welch

Sebougla Voices

By Leo Welch

Label: Big Legal Mess Records
Released: 2014
Track listing: Praise His Name; You Can't Hurry God; Me and My Lord; Take Care of Me Lord; Mother Loves Her Children; Praying Time; Somebody Touched Me; A Long Journey; His Holy Name; The Lord Will Make a Way.

Kickstarter Campaign for Leo "Bud" Welch, Blues Discovery of the Decade

August 28, 2014

Leo Bud Welch is an 82-year old Mississippi-based Blues and Gospel musician who released his debut record earlier this year, taking the blues world by storm. After decades of hard work in the cotton fields and the woods, missed opportunities and gigs in local Juke Joints and churches, Leo’s very late international success is a story ...

Leo Welch: Sebougla Voices

by Chris M. Slawecki
March 14, 2014

For decades, singer, guitarist, fiddler and harmonica player Leo Welch has played and sung fertile, deep South country blues and gospel at smalltown picnics and parties in and around his hometown of Sabougla in north central Mississippi, where he also leads the local gospel group Leo Welch & The Rising Souls, and belongs to the Skuna ...

81-year Mississippi blues/gospel singer makes debut album: Leo Welch

November 24, 2013

BRUCE, Miss. (Population: 2,097) — The phone rings at the Oxford, Miss.-based label Big Legal Mess. An intern tells the caller, “Oh, we don’t really do blues here anymore.” One of the company’s principals overhears this and grabs the phone. On the other end of the line is one 81-year-old Leo “Bud” Welch from Mississippi’s Calhoun ...