Blind Willie McTell

Blind Willie McTell is sacred ground for me. Born in Georgia around the turn of the century and blind from early life, he turned a twelve-string guitar into something almost orchestral, his fluid Piedmont fingerpicking syncopated and impossibly graceful. Generations of musicians have invoked his name, and rightly so; he dug a deep well that others still draw from. Rather than mourn how little we documented of his life, I prefer to sit with the recordings he left, each one a small miracle. He is, to my ear, one of the purest voices the blues ever produced, and I hold him in the highest esteem.

Name (English)

Blind Willie McTell

Name (Japanese)

ブラインド・ウィリー・マクテル

Reading

ぶらいんど・うぃりー・まくてる

Born

May 5, 1898 – August 19, 1959

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Taurus / Dog

Origin

Georgia, United States

Occupation

singer-songwriter / musician / songwriter / guitarist / singer

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blind%20Willie%20McTell
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%96%E3%83%A9%E3%82%A4%E3%83%B3%E3%83%89%E3%83%BB%E3%82%A6%E3%82%A3%E3%83%AA%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%83%9E%E3%82%AF%E3%83%86%E3%83%AB
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q181689

Tags

• Georgia
• singer-songwriter
• musician
• songwriter

Last updated

2026-06-23

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.