Blind Willie McTell – Complete Recorded Works – The Early Years (1927-1935) “Statesboro Blues”
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DOCD-5677 Blind Willie McTell – Complete Recorded Works – The Early Years (1927-1935) “Statesboro Blues”.
If Robert Johnson was the King of the Mississippi blues and Blind Lemon Jefferson was the king of the Texas blues then the Royal Crown of the Georgia blues must go to Blind Willie McTell. In addition, he was also a King of the twelve string guitar on which he played some of the deepest “country blues”, intricate “ragtime” and some of the finest “bottleneck slide guitar” to have been recorded.
Revered by many including, Taj Mahal, The Allman Brothers, Bob Dylan and Jack White, all of who have covered his songs, has never been imitated. There is now a thriving annual blues festival dedicated to the memory of Blind Willie McTell which take place in his home town of Thomson, Georgia.
This set demonstrates the wide breadth of the McTell repertoire with some of the best blues on record, including the remarkable Mama, Tain’t Long Fo’ Day, the celebrated Statesboro Blues, the low down Broke Down Engine and the enchanting Travelin’ Blues. There are enthralling ragtime numbers including; Georgia Rag, Southern Can Is Mine and Atlanta Strut.
McTell was equally at home playing religious pieces, similar to the guitar evangelists of the time including his good friend the great Blind Willie Johnson. We Got To Meet Death One Day, I Got Religion, I’m So Glad and God Don’t Like It are just a few which demonstrate that McTell was a fine all-rounder.
Joining him on some of the tracks are Ruby Glaze, his wife Kate, his close companion Curly Weaver and others. The set replaces the three separate volumes of Blind Willie McTell’ s work in the Document catalogue; DOCD-5006, DOCD-5007 and DOCD-5008. It has additional tracks which first saw their re-issues scattered in Document’s “Too Late” series.
Includes informative, illustrated booklet by David Evans plus detailed discography
Currently Available as FLAC or MP3 (Download only) Complete with liner notes. Coming soon on Vinyl.Also available
