The 2024 Blind Willie McTell Festival is in the books, and with the performances seen at this event, Visit Thomson will have a hard time following this amazing day. The 30th year of the festival ...

Author of 'Hand Me My Travelin' Shoes: In Search of Blind Willie McTell' donates papers to Georgia Southern library. They say no one could sing the blues like Blind Willie McTell. And why not?

On Monday (August 2), Bob Dylan announced plans to release “Blind Willie McTell” on a new seven-inch ... how he began playing the song live in the ’90s after hearing The Band use it in ...

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 ...

Samuel Charters, a vital historian of American blues, folk and jazz who helped introduce a generation of music lovers to Robert Johnson, Blind Willie McTell and other performers, died Wednesday in ...

One of Bob Dylan’s greatest songs, “Blind Willie McTell,” was recorded in 1983 during the sessions for Infidels, but it wasn’t released until eight years later as part of The Bootleg Series.

As Michael Gray makes clear from the outset, Blind Willie McTell confounds every popular stereotype of the southern blues man. McTell was no "roaring primitive, no Robert Johnson-esque devil ...

The triple-disc set included a number of stunning tracks that Bob had left off his studio albums, but none was more jaw-dropping than “Blind Willie McTell.” In his biography Down The Highway ...