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Blind Willie McTell
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Piedmont and ragtime blues singer and guitarist
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Vinony's link graph records 203 inbound references to Blind Willie McTell, and connects out to Victor Talking Machine Company, World War II and YouTube.
Vinony files it under 1898 births, 1959 deaths and 20th-century African-American male singers.
Vinony links it to 21 Wikipedia language editions.
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1901-05-05
- Active to
- 1959-08-19
Discography
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 241,206
- Total plays
- 2,009,554
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Blind Willie McTell (born William Samuel McTier; May 5, 1898 – August 19, 1959) was a Piedmont and ragtime blues singer and guitarist. He played with a fluid, syncopated fingerstyle guitar technique, common among many exponents of Piedmont blues, although, 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 <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Blind
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- William
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Georgia
- Place of death
- Georgia
- Occupation
- guitarist
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Genre
- blues
- Instrument
- harmonica
- Record label
- Victor Talking Machine Company
- Image
- Blind Willie McTell LOC.jpg
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- Commons category
- Blind Willie McTell
- date of birth
- 1901-05-05
- date of death
- 1959-08-19
- medical condition
- blindness
- cause of death
- stroke
- manner of death
- natural causes
- start of work period
- 1927-00-00
- time period
- 20th century
- name in native language
- Blind Willie McTell
- end of work period
- 1956-00-00
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