18K views · 1.1K reactions | Blind Willie McTell, a Piedmont guitarist, singer and songwriter of rare talent, passed away on this day in 1959. Willie left a rich legacy of beautiful records of his immaculate 12-string guitar picking, and a catalogue of superb songs which have enhanced the careers of Bob Dylan, Ry Cooder, the Allman Brothers, Canned Heat and many more. | All About Blues Music | Facebook

104K views · 6.6K reactions | This unreleased song from Dylan’s landmark 1983 album, Infidels, shows the depth and variety of The Bootleg Series. Unreleased songs like Blind Willie McTell reveal Dylan’s remarkable creativity. There are few artists whose music can compare with this deep meditation on the American south and the blues … let alone their outtakes. Explore more of the Bootleg Series https://bobdylan.lnk.to/TheBestofTheBootlegSeriesFA | Bob Dylan | Facebook

Remembering Blind Willie McTell, born William Samuel McTier on May 5, 1898, in Thomson, Georgia — he died on August 19, 1959. McTell was a Piedmont blues and ragtime singer and guitarist. He played with a fluid, syncopated fingerstyle guitar technique, common among many exponents of Piedmont blues. 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 ten

88K views · 1.6K shares | I’ve been really diggin’ this new “Blue...