Blind Willie McTell
USA
Born: 05 May 1901
Died: 19 August 1959
Genres: Blues
Styles: Country Blues, Acoustic Blues, Piedmont Blues, East Coast Blues, Pre-War Country Blues, Urban Blues, Songster
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Willie Samuel McTell was one of the blues' greatest guitarists, and also one of the finest singers ever to work in blues. A major figure with a local following in Atlanta from the 1920s onward, he recorded dozens of sides throughout the '30s under a multitude of names -- all the better to juggle "exclusive" relationships with many different record labels at once -- including Blind Willie, Blind Sammie, Hot Shot Willie, and Georgia Bill, as a backup musician to Ruth Mary Willis. And those may not have been all of his pseudonyms -- we don't even ...
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