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.

Blind Willie McTell was one of the great blues musicians of the 1920s and 1930s. Displaying an extraordinary range on the twelve-string guitar, this Atlanta-based musician recorded more than 120 ...

Atlanta’s venerable blues joint is named for one legend (Blind Willie McTell) and is the best place to see another: Francine Reed, whose soulful voice, feisty wisecracks, and dance-inducing ...

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 ...

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 ...

THOMSON, Ga. (WJBF) – The 30th Annual Blind Willie McTell Music Festival was held on Saturday in Thomson. McTell was a native of Thomson, Georgia and was blind in one eye from birth and lost his ...

Blind Willie McTell, the Georgia-born 12-string guitar bluesman, recorded dozens of songs in the 1920s and 1930s, and is a member of the Georgia Music Hall of Fame.

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 ...

In the blues world, Delia Green is a famous name. The Savannah native never played a note of music, but her name has passed the lips of dozens in the blues canon over the years, from Blind Willie … ...

After Los Lobos were forced to cancel their appearance at Blind Willie McTell’s Blues Festival, Jaimoe’s Jasssz Band has stepped in to replace them, the festival confirmed today. Jaimoe will ...