Pioneering Louisville blues guitarist Sylvester Weaver — promoted as “The Man with the Talking Guitar” when he recorded in the 1920s in New York — will receive an encore tribute Saturday.

LOS ANGELES -- Sylvester "Pat" Weaver, 93, who created NBC's "Today" and "Tonight" shows, brought opera and a flurry of new commercials to television and shaped the way Americans watched the ...