Blind Willie McTell

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title: Blind Willie McTell
text: Blind Willie McTell was a Piedmont blues and ragtime singer and guitarist. He played with a fluid, syncopated fingerstyle guitar technique, common among many exponents of Piedmont blues. Unlike his contemporaries, he came to use twelve-string guitars exclusively. McTell was also an adept slide guitarist, unusual among ragtime bluesmen. His vocal style, a smooth and often laid-back tenor, differed greatly from many of the harsher voices of Delta bluesmen such as Charley Patton. McTell performed i
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description: Piedmont blues and ragtime singer and guitarist (1898–1959)
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date created: 2001-10-31T22:22:05Z
date modified: 2024-09-07T02:29:41Z
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