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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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?

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 ...