Blind Willie McTell
About the artist
Blind Willie McTell (born William Samuel McTier; May 5, 1898 – August 19, 1959) was a Piedmont and ragtime blues singer and guitarist. He played with a fluid, syncopated fingerstyle guitar technique, common among many exponents of Piedmont blues, although, unlike his contemporaries, he came to use twelve-string guitars exclusively. McTell was also an adept slide guitarist, unusual among ragtime bluesmen. His vocal style, a smooth and often laid-back tenor
Top songs
- Statesboro Blues
- Delia
- I Got The Cross The River Jordan
- Southern Can Is Mine
- Broke Down Engine Blues
- Dark Night Blues
- Travelin' Blues
- Georgia Rag
- Low Rider's Blues
- Atlanta Strut
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- Searching the Desert for the Blues
- Broke Down Engine
- Drive Away Blues
- You Was Born to Die
- Three Women Blues
- Stole Rider Blues
- Come On Around to My House Mama
- Love Changing Blues
- Dying Crapshooter's Blues
- Loving Talking Blues
- Scarey Day Blues
- Kind Mama
- Kill-It-Kid Rag
- Mr. McTell Got the Blues - 2003 Remastered
- Death Cell Blues
- Dying Crapshooters Blues
- Stomp Down Rider
- Savannah Mama
- You Got to Die
- Lonesome Day Blues
- Lay Some Flowers On My Grave
- Kill It Kid
- Talkin' to Myself
- Lord, Send Me an Angel
- Painful Blues
- Little Delia
- It's a Good Little Thing
- Mama, Let Me Scoop for You
- Rollin' Mama Blues
- Experience Blues
- I Got to Cross the River Jordan
- Rough Alley Blues
- Writing Paper Blues
- Lord Have Mercy If You Please
- Razor Ball
- Warm It up to Me
- Writin' Paper Blues
- It's Your Time to Worry
- Southern Can Mama
- Boll Weevil
- My Baby's Gone
- Goodbye Blues
- Low Down Blues
- Mama, 'tain't Long Fo' Day
- Don't You See How This World Made a Change
- Blues Around Midnight
- Last Dime Blues
- Motherless Children Have a Hard Time
- B and O Blues No. 2
- The Razor Ball
- Baby, It Must Be Love
- Mama Let Me Scoop For You
- Searchin' the Desert for the Blues
- Amazing Grace
- A to Z Blues
- Pinetop's Boogie Woogie
- On the Cooling Board
- Pearly Gates
- Don't Forget It
- Soon This Morning
- Mama, Tain't Long Fo' Day
- Murderer's Home Blues
- Kill-It-Kid-Rag
- I Keep On Drinkin'
- Death Room Blues
- Weary Hearted Blues
- King Edward Blues
- Dirty Mistreater
- Teasing Brown
- Will Fox
- Runnin' Me Crazy
- Mr. McTell Got The Blues
- God Don't Like It
- Cold Winter Day
- Dying Gambler
- This Is Not the Stove to Brown Your Bread
- Salty Dog
- The Dyin' Crapshooter's Blues
- Broke Down Engine No. 2
- Chainey
- Monologue On Accidents
- Mr McTell Got the Blues
- Pal Of Mine
- That Will Never Happen No More
- Statesboro' Blues
- Ticket Agent Blues
- B & O Blues No. 2
- East St. Louis Blues (Fare You Well)
- Ain't It Grand To Be A Christian
- Mamma, Tain't Long Fo' Day
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