![]() ![]() His technique in both styles is expertly done, with fluidityĪnd creative when we look at different recording sessions of the same One of a kind, amongst any blues men in his skill of playing the guitarĪnd a bottleneck blues technique ("Three Womenīlues"). He is a little out of the ordinary, if not completely ![]() Willie was paid 10 dollars (about $155 eqsuivalent today's money). On the 1940 John Lomax recordings (Library of Congress), for which He had a particular style: a kind of old blues, whichīridged the gulf between the raw blues of the Willie very often played for small change in the parking lot of the Blue (Bluebird), Barrelhouse Sammie (Atlantic) and Pig & Whistle Red ![]() Shot Willie (Victor), Blind Willie (Vocalion), Red Hot Willie Glaze McTell for Victor and Decca, Blind Sammie for Columbia, Georgia Bill Labels using a pseudonym name for every one, names such as Blind Willie He travelled and played all over the country, performing for several He started recording in 1927 with Victor Records Left town and became a travelling player. When McTell was a boy, and after his mother passed on, he Six-string guitar as soon as was possible. He had an interest in music from a young age and taught himself to pick Vision completely after several years, but was a skilled reader of ![]() His real name was William Samuel McTierĪnd he was born in Thomson, Georgia. Blind Willie McTell ( born ,died August 19, 1959) was a blind blues guitarist, who sang and played 12 string ragtime guitar, finger picking the Piedmont blues. ![]()
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