Blind Willie McTell, American Piedmont blues singer and guitar player (died 1959)

Blind Willie McTell

Piedmont blues and ragtime singer and guitarist (1898–1959)

Blind Willie McTell was an American Piedmont blues and ragtime singer, songwriter and guitarist. He played in a fluid, syncopated finger picking guitar style common among many East Coast, Piedmont blues players. Like his Atlanta contemporaries, he came to use twelve-string…