WILLIE LANE

                                          

    

Artist Biography by Steve Leggett  in allmusic 

North Texas bluesman Willie Lane recorded six sides ("Up and Down Building K.C. Line," "Prowlin' Ground Hog," "Too Many Women Blues," "Howling Wolfe Blues," and two takes of "Black Cat Rag") for Dallas-based Talent Records between 1934 and 1949. He may have been the same Willie Lane who also recorded a track for the Library of Congress in 1934, but the evidence is uncertain. He was born in 1897, probably in San Antonio, and lived from 1910 until his death in 1976 in the Fort Worth, TX, area. It was thought for a time that he was the second guitarist on recordings fellow Texan Funny Paper Smith did in 1935, but Lane claimed in an interview before his death that although he met Smith, and learned a couple of guitar chords from him, he never recorded with him.