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Blind Willie Mctell - CD

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  • Artist: Blind Willie Mctell
  • Format: CD
  • Year: 2005
  • Number of Discs: 2
  • UPC: 8026575142220
  • Item Number: UNVR751422
  • Release date: 02/22/2005
  • 1. Atlanta Strut
  • 2. Travelin' Blues
  • 3. Kind Mama
  • 4. Southern Can Is Mine
  • 5. Broke Down Engine Blues
  • 6. Stomp Down Rider
  • 7. Scarey Day Blues
  • 8. Experience Blues
  • 9. Painful Blues
  • 10. Low Rider's Blues
  • 11. Georgia Rag
  • 12. Warm It Up to Me
  • 13. It's Your Time to Worry
  • 14. It's a Good Little Thing
  • 15. You Was Born to Die
  • 16. Dirty Mistreater
  • 17. Savannah Mama
  • 18. Broke Down Engine
  • 19. Love Makin' Mama #1
  • 20. Death Room Blues [#2]
  • 21. Lord Send Me an Angel #1
  • 22. B & O Blues No. 2 #1
  • 23. Bell St. Lightnin'
  • 24. East St. Louis Blues
  • 1. Southern Can Mama
  • 2. Ain't It Grand to Be a Christian
  • 3. We Got to Meet Death One Day
  • 4. Don't Let Nobody Turn You Around
  • 5. I Got Religion, I'm So Glad
  • 6. Dying Gambler
  • 7. God Don't Like It
  • 8. Bell Street Blues
  • 9. Let Me Play With Yo' Yo-Yo
  • 10. Lay Some Flowers on My Grave
  • 11. Ticket Agent Blues
  • 12. Cold Winter Day
  • 13. Your Time to Worry
  • 14. Cooling Board Blues
  • 15. Hillbilly Willie's Blues
  • 16. Boll Weevil
  • 17. Delia
  • 18. Dying Crapshooter's Blues
  • 19. Will Fox
  • 20. I Got to Cross the River Jordan
  • 21. Amazing Grace
  • 22. King Edward Blues
  • 23. Murderer's Home Blues
  • 24. Kill-It-Kid Rag
  • 25. Chainey
  • 26. I Got to Cross the River of Jordan
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Georgia Rag by Blind Willie Mctell on CD


Blind Willie McTell is unique among country bluesmen in having a 30-year recording career while remaining essentially an itinerant musician, and during his lifetime he was a familiar sight on the streets of Atlanta and other Southern cities as he performed his varied repertoire of blues, rags, and vaudeville pieces on his 12-string guitar. This two-disc collection assembles some 50 of his early 78s recorded for the Victor, Columbia, Okeh, Vocalion, and Decca labels between 1929 and 1935 into a two-disc set, although it unfortunately doesn't include a version of his signature tune, the magnificent "Statesboro Blues." Whether McTell actually wrote a lot of these songs (or merely adapted them) is unclear, but there is a sharp writer's eye at work here, and songs like "Dying Crapshooter's Blues" (which is based on elements from "Streets of Laredo" and "St. James Infirmary") are thoroughly modern compositions in a cut-and-paste narrative style. These recordings feature the early McTell, when his voice was still a high and expressive tenor. Toward the end of his life, McTell's voice deepened and grew rougher (no doubt from the effects of years of singing on the streets), the songs slowed down and became much more world-weary, and since he recorded his standards several times over, it is interesting to compare early and later versions of songs like "Broke Down Engine Blues." Georgia Rag is a passable introduction to this unique bluesman, but the absence of "Statesboro Blues" is a definite problem. ~ Steve Leggett, Rovi
  • Artist: Blind Willie Mctell
  • Format: CD
  • Year: 2005
  • Number of Discs: 2
  • UPC: 8026575142220
  • Item Number: UNVR751422
  • Release date: 02/22/2005
  • Label: Universe
  • Genre: Blues
  • Style: Acoustic Blues, Country Blues, Pre-War Country Blues, Piedmont Blues, East Coast Blues, Songster, Regional Blues
  • Album Time: 145:12

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  • Georgia Rag Blind Willie Mctell CD
Georgia Rag Blind Willie Mctell CD