Blind Willie McTell

Blind Willie McTell was a blues singer and guitarist from Thomson, Georgia. He had a prolific recording career from the 1920s to the 1950s, but never had a major hit record. McTell was known for his fluid, syncopated fingerstyle guitar technique, and his use of twelve-string guitars exclusively. He was also an adept slide guitarist, unusual among ragtime bluesmen. McTell's vocal style, a smooth and often laid-back tenor, differed greatly from many of the harsher voices of Delta bluesmen such as Charley Patton. He was one of the few blues musicians of his generation who continued to actively play and record during the 1940s and 1950s, despite not living to see the American folk music revival. His notable pieces include Statesboro Blues, and he influenced artists like the Allman Brothers Band and Bob Dylan.

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