McTell, Blind Willie (Personal Name)

Blind Willie McTell, 1940. [Phonodisc] 1966.

His Blues in the dark [SR] p1983: container (Blind Willie McTell; b. ca. 1898, Thomson, Ga.; d. Milledgville, Ga., 8-19-1959)

Leadbelly. Masters of the country blues [SR] p1996: label (Blind Willie McTell) insert (Willie Samuel McTear)

Great blues guitarists [SR] p1991: insert (Blind Willie McTell as Georgia Bill; Blind Willie McTell as Blind Willie; guitar, vocals)

Harris, S. Blues who's who, 1991 (McTell, Willie Samuel "Blind Willie"; aka: Barrelhouse Sammy/Blind Doogie/Blind Sammy (Sammie)/Blind Willie/Georgia Bill/Red Hot Willie Glaze/Hot Shot Willie/Pig 'n' Whistle Red/Red Hot Willie; b. May 5, 1901, Thomson, GA; d. Aug. 19, 1959, Midgeville, GA; "death records and gravestone mistakenly listed him as Eddie McTier"; accordion, guitar, harmonica, kazoo, violin)

The best of Blind Willie McTell [SR] p2004: insert (b. Willie McTier around 1898; his southern drawl may have caused his name to be heard as "McTell", which it remained for recording purposes for the rest of his life)

African American National Biography, accessed February 24, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (McTell, Blind Willie; Willie Samuel McTell; Blind Sammie; Georgia Bill; Hot Shot Willie; blues musician, singer, guitarist; born 05 May 1898 in McDuffie County, Georgia, United States; teamed up with the legendary Blind Willie Johnson, bottleneck slide guitar virtuoso from Texas; recorded for RCA Victor in Atlanta (1927); his best-known composition, Statesboro Blues became a rock classic (1959); recorded with Vocalion (1933), Atlantic and Regal records (1949-1950); was elected to the Blues Foundation Hall of Fame (1981); died 19 August 1959 in Milledgeville, Georgia, United States)

The roots of it all, 2014: insert (Blind Willie McTell; member of blues duo Pig 'n' Whistle Band with Curly Weaver)

Individual was a Blues Foundation Hall of Fame inductee.