The Blind Willie McTell Dylan name-checks in the song as the ultimate blues singer toiled away in relative obscurity in the first half of the twentieth century before his singing and 12-string ...

Bob Dylan turned in his latest set as part of Willie Nelson’s Outlaw Music Festival Tour. The mid-week stop at the Ford Amphitheater ...

Blind Willie McTell addresses the continuing tragedy of Black folk in the New World – and the blues as its “symphony of sorrowful songs”. Dylan was never really a man of the left and came to ...

Bob Dylan will release two previously unreleased versions of “Blind Willie McTell” on a 7″ single via Third Man Records. One of the versions (take 5) will be included on the upcoming ...

The tenth anniversary of Nelson’s touring festival came to the Bowl Friday night and also featured Sierra Hull and Billy Strings.

On Monday (August 2), Bob Dylan announced plans to release “Blind Willie McTell” on a new seven-inch vinyl. Issued via Third Man Records, the release will include two previously unreleased ...

For his part, Dylan, who has typically been ambivalent ... How does a genius of this evident magnitude not realize that "Blind Willie McTell" is a major song, and "Union Sundown" a minor one?

And, in a tribute from one troubadour to another, Bob Dylan wrote a song about McTell in 1983. Its haunting refrain goes "And I know no one can sing the blues/ Like Blind Willie McTell." ...

The 1980s are widely seen as the absolute low point of Bob Dylan's career, a time when he drifted from gospel music to half-assed albums like Knocked Out Loaded and even forgotten movies like ...

Nelson, 92, and Dylan, who turns 84 next week, warmed up a cool San Diego night and Dylan’s performance was often revelatory.

From the stands, Dylan was a speck in a white hat and ... "Senor (Tales of Yankee Power)," "Rollin' and Tumblin'," "Blind Willie McTell," "Tweedle Dee & Tweedle Dum," "If You Ever Go to Houston ...