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 ...

UPDATE 8/20: Bob Dylan has shared one of the two unreleased versions of “Blind Willie McTell” that features on the new Third Man seven-inch vinyl single. Bob Dylan is prepping a new seven-inch ...

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 ...

“All Along the Watchtower” felt like a dare if Dylan could make one of his songs sound like Sade — a sentence this writer never expected to write. “Blind Willie McTell” wore a Dire Straits combover.

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 ...

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 ...

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." ...

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?

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.