Expecting Rain

I can't find it on my iPod.

Which album is it on?

thanks!

Bootleg Series Vols. 1-3, spelled McTell.

Blind Willie McTell, Bootleg Series, vol. 3

THANK YOU!

just stick the word 'blind' into itunes top right window...

Is this the version with the haunting bagpipes?

Bagpipes can be HAUNTED? Oh man, they're creepy enough as it is...

I love Willie's voice. And I love "Lay Some Flowers on my Grave".

Bagpipes are freaky mothers.

Yeah, Bob was nearly right. Nobody can sign the blues like Blind Wille Mctell. There are two very similar blues singers I can think but Bob sings that song in such a way, I find it hard to disagree with him! Well, can you? I wouldn't disagree with many a politician if he sang announced his policies using a song as haunting as that (there would be some exceptions obviously).

As posted on Front Page and in St. Augustine FL Live Set List thread today...

Well, it's Blind Willie's 115th Birthday today...
http://johannasvisions.com/today-the-la ... years-ago/
Maybe a Blind Willie cover tonight would be exciting?

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, differed greatly from many of the harsher voice types employed by Delta bluesmen, such as Charley Patton. McTell embodied a variety of musical styles, including blues, ragtime, religious music and hokum.

Born blind in the town of Thomson, Georgia, McTell learned how to play guitar in his early teens. He soon became a street performer around several Georgia cities including Atlanta and Augusta, and first recorded in 1927 for Victor Records. Although he never produced a major hit record, McTell’s recording career was prolific, recording for different labels under different names throughout the 1920s and 30s. In 1940, he was recorded by John Lomax for the Library of Congress’s folk song archive. He would remain active throughout the 1940s and 50s, playing on the streets of Atlanta, often with his longtime associate, Curley Weaver. Twice more he recorded professionally. McTell’s last recordings originated during an impromptu session recorded by an Atlanta record store owner in 1956. McTell would die three years later after suffering for years from diabetes and alcoholism. Despite his mainly failed releases, McTell was one of the few archaic blues musicians that would actively play and record during the 1940s and 50s. However, McTell never lived to be “rediscovered” during the imminent American folk music revival, as many other bluesmen would.

McTell’s influence extended over a wide variety of artists, including The Allman Brothers Band, who famously covered McTell’s “Statesboro Blues”, and Bob Dylan, who paid tribute to McTell in his 1983 song “Blind Willie McTell”; the refrain of which is, “And I know no one can sing the blues, like Blind Willie McTell”. Other artists influenced by McTell include Taj Mahal, Alvin Youngblood Hart, Ralph McTell, Chris Smither and The White Stripes.

Bob Dylan has paid tribute to McTell on at least four occasions:

1. Firstly, in his 1965 song “Highway 61 Revisited“, the second verse begins with “Georgia Sam he had a bloody nose”, referring to one of Blind Willie McTell’s many recording names

2. later in his song “Blind Willie McTell“, recorded in 1983 but released in 1991 on The Bootleg Series Volumes 1-3

3. then with covers of McTell’s “Broke Down Engine” and “Delia” on his 1993 album, World Gone Wrong

4. in his song “Po’ Boy“, on 2001′s “Love & Theft”, which contains the lyric, “had to go to Florida dodging them Georgia laws”, which comes from McTell’s “Kill It Kid”

Also, the original poster here needs to learn how to spell Blind Willie McTell.