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| Blind Willie McTell, the essential DOUBLE CD £7.99 |
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| Blind Willie McTell was a Country Bluesman and started his recording career in 1927 for Victor records. Perhaps his most famous recording session was in an Atlanta hotel room for John Lomax who was making field recordings for the Library of Congress. This double CD compilation introduces Willie's unique style. His repertoire consisted of blistering ragtime guitar, lowdown blues, religious pieces and ballads. William Samuel McTell was born near Thomson, Georgia in May 1901, to guitar playing parents. No one is sure whether he was blind at birth or lost his sight as a child. His mother gave him his first guitar lesson and over the years he learned to play both six and twelve string guitars, as well as the harmonica, banjo, violin, accordion and kazoo. In his early teens he left home to follow medicine and minstrel shows. Willie went on to attend schools for the blind firstly in Macon and then New York before returning to Georgia and starting his recording career. Willie was not a huge commercial success at the time but appreciation has grown for his music over the years. An annual Blind Willie McTell Blues Festival is now held in Thomson, Georgia to honour this great bluesman, for further details http://www.blindwillie.com/index2.html . Includes informative booklet notes by Gary Atkinson. | ||
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