Blind Willie McTell The Best Of Blind Willie McTell Vinyl LP Due Out 04/09/26

Blind Willie McTell - The Best Of Blind Willie McTell

Please note this is a pre-order item due for release 4th September 2026

Tracklist:

1. Broke Down Engine Blues
2. Statesboro Blues
3. Travelin' Blues
4. Searching The Desert For The Blues
5. Three Women Blues
6. Atlanta Strut
7. Scarey Day Blues
8. Mama Let Me Scoop For You
9. Mama, Tain't Long Fo' Day
10. Death Cell Blues
11. Kind Mama
12. Low Rider's Blues
13. Love Changing Blues
14. Southern Can Is Mine

Blind Willie McTell was an anomaly. There are only a handful of artists who can match his total command of rural traditional music. He sang and composed or preserved some of the most inventive, compelling, and beautiful traditional songs, blues and arrangements of all time. His voice did not have great range, but it conveyed something even better: warmth and conviction. His rags and comedic pieces don't just have an infectious bounce, they usually have McTell making spoken asides to the audience, commenting on and sharing the performance and drawing them in. He utilizes this facility in his serious pieces, also, while projecting an appropriate emotional affect. He was a brilliant guitarist, adept at several different styles, occasionally recasting a few favorite arrangements into new-sounding pieces. McTell could make his guitar "talk" in the proverbial sense of the term; more than that, he was able to craft superb arrangements that underpinned his emotional persona.