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This double-CD set is a little misleading. It is definitive, but only in terms of McTell's Columbia and Okeh sides -- you won't find "Statesboro Blues" or his other earliest sides here, because they were done for Victor. But the material that is here is all worthwhile, and this is the best single source for McTell's work for those labels (done under a variety of names) from the mid-'30s, very nicely remastered and thoroughly annotated, although producer Lawrence Cohn concedes that even Sony Legacy was unable to locate sources on a handful of songs that McTell is known to have recorded.
© Bruce Eder /TiVo
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Blind Samie, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - McTell, Composer, Lyricist - David Mitson, Mastering Engineer - Adam Block, Director - Howard Fritzson, Director - Lawrence Cohn, Producer - Blind Sammie a.k.a. Blind Willie McTell, Guitar, Vocal
Originally Released 1932 SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT
Blind Samie, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - McTell, Composer, Lyricist - David Mitson, Mastering Engineer - Adam Block, Director - Howard Fritzson, Director - Lawrence Cohn, Producer - Blind Sammie a.k.a. Blind Willie McTell, Guitar, Vocal
Originally Released 1930 SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT
Blind Samie, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - McTell, Composer, Lyricist - David Mitson, Mastering Engineer - Adam Block, Director - Howard Fritzson, Director - Lawrence Cohn, Producer - Blind Sammie a.k.a. Blind Willie McTell, Guitar, Vocal
Originally Released 1930 SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT
Blind Samie, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - McTell, Composer, Lyricist - David Mitson, Mastering Engineer - Adam Block, Director - Howard Fritzson, Director - Lawrence Cohn, Producer - Blind Sammie a.k.a. Blind Willie McTell, Guitar, Vocal
Originally Released 1932 SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT
Blind Samie, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - McTell, Composer, Lyricist - David Mitson, Mastering Engineer - Adam Block, Director - Howard Fritzson, Director - Lawrence Cohn, Producer - Blind Sammie a.k.a. Blind Willie McTell, Guitar, Vocal
Originally Released 1930 SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT
McTell, Composer, Lyricist - David Mitson, Mastering Engineer - Adam Block, Director - Howard Fritzson, Director - Lawrence Cohn, Producer - Blind Sammie a.k.a. Blind Willie McTell, Guitar, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, Vocal
Originally Released 1930 SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT
McTell, Composer, Lyricist - David Mitson, Mastering Engineer - Adam Block, Director - Howard Fritzson, Director - Lawrence Cohn, Producer - Blind Sammie a.k.a. Blind Willie McTell, Guitar, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, Vocal
Originally Released 1931 SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT
Blind Samie, AssociatedPerformer - Blind Willie McTell, Composer, Lyricist, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - David Mitson, Mastering Engineer - Adam Block, Director - Howard Fritzson, Director - Lawrence Cohn, Producer - Blind Sammie a.k.a. Blind Willie McTell, Guitar, Vocal
(P) Originally released 1933. All rights reserved by Columbia Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment
Georgia Bill, Guitar, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, Vocal - McTell, Composer, Lyricist - David Mitson, Mastering Engineer - Adam Block, Director - Howard Fritzson, Director - Lawrence Cohn, Producer
Originally Released 1932 SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT
Georgia Bill, Guitar, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, Vocal - McTell, Composer, Lyricist - David Mitson, Mastering Engineer - Adam Block, Director - Howard Fritzson, Director - Lawrence Cohn, Producer
Originally Released 1932 SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT
Mary Willis, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Blind Willie McTell, Composer, Lyricist, Guitar, Vocal - David Mitson, Mastering Engineer - Adam Block, Director - Howard Fritzson, Director - Lawrence Cohn, Producer - Ruth Willis, Vocal
Originally Released 1932 SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT
Blind Willie McTell, Composer, Lyricist - David Mitson, Mastering Engineer - Adam Block, Director - Howard Fritzson, Director - Lawrence Cohn, Producer - Ruth Day , MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, Vocal - Guitar Sammie, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer
Originally Released 1932 SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT
Blind Willie McTell, Composer, Lyricist - David Mitson, Mastering Engineer - Adam Block, Director - Howard Fritzson, Director - Lawrence Cohn, Producer - Ruth Willis, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Ruth Day , Vocal - Guitar Sammie, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer
Originally Released 1932 SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT
Georgia Bill, Guitar, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, Vocal - McTell, Composer, Lyricist - Curley Weaver, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - David Mitson, Mastering Engineer - Adam Block, Director - Howard Fritzson, Director - Lawrence Cohn, Producer
Originally Released 1932 SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT
Georgia Bill, Guitar, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, Vocal - Bill, Composer, Lyricist - David Mitson, Mastering Engineer - Adam Block, Director - Howard Fritzson, Director - Lawrence Cohn, Producer
Originally Released 1932 SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT
Mary Willis, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Blind Willie McTell, Composer, Lyricist, Guitar - Mary Wilson, Vocal - Curley Weaver, Guitar - David Mitson, Mastering Engineer - Adam Block, Director - Howard Fritzson, Director - Lawrence Cohn, Producer
Originally Released 1932 SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT
Blind Willie McTell & Partner, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Blind Willie McTell, Guitar, Vocal - McTell, Composer, Lyricist - Curley Weaver, Guitar, Vocal - David Mitson, Mastering Engineer - Adam Block, Director - Howard Fritzson, Director - Lawrence Cohn, Producer
Originally Released 1932 SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT
Blind Willie McTell, Guitar, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, Vocal - McTell, Composer, Lyricist - David Mitson, Mastering Engineer - Adam Block, Director - Howard Fritzson, Director - Lawrence Cohn, Producer
Originally Released 1933 SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT
Blind Willie McTell & Partner, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Blind Willie McTell, Composer, Lyricist, Guitar, Vocal - Curley Weaver, Guitar, Vocal - David Mitson, Mastering Engineer - Adam Block, Director - Howard Fritzson, Director - Lawrence Cohn, Producer
Originally Released 1934 SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT
Blind Willie McTell, Guitar, Vocal - McTell, Composer, Lyricist - Curley Weaver, Guitar, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, Vocal - David Mitson, Mastering Engineer - Adam Block, Director - Howard Fritzson, Director - Lawrence Cohn, Producer
Originally Released 1933 SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT
Blind Willie McTell, AssociatedPerformer - Buddy Moss, Guitar - McTell, Composer, Lyricist - Curley Weaver, Guitar, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, Vocal - David Mitson, Mastering Engineer - Adam Block, Director - Howard Fritzson, Director - Lawrence Cohn, Producer
Originally Released 1933 SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT
DISC 2
Blind Willie McTell, Guitar, Vocal - McTell, Composer, Lyricist - Curley Weaver, Guitar, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, Vocal - David Mitson, Mastering Engineer - Adam Block, Director - Howard Fritzson, Director - Lawrence Cohn, Producer
Originally Released 1934 SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT
Blind Willie & Partner, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Blind Willie McTell, Guitar, Vocal - McTell, Composer, Lyricist - Curley Weaver, Guitar, Vocal - David Mitson, Mastering Engineer - Adam Block, Director - Howard Fritzson, Director - Lawrence Cohn, Producer
Originally Released 1934 SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT
Willie McTell, Composer, Lyricist - Blind Willie, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Blind Willie McTell, Guitar, Vocal - David Mitson, Mastering Engineer - Adam Block, Director - Howard Fritzson, Director - Lawrence Cohn, Producer
Originally Released 1933 SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT
Blind Willie McTell, Composer, Lyricist, Guitar, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, Vocal - David Mitson, Mastering Engineer - Adam Block, Director - Howard Fritzson, Director - Steve Berkowitz, Producer - Lawrence Cohn, Producer - Nedra Olds-Neal, Producer - Arthur Levy, Producer
Originally Released 1933 SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT
Blind Willie McTell, Composer, Lyricist, Guitar, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, Vocal - David Mitson, Mastering Engineer - Adam Block, Director - Howard Fritzson, Director - Lawrence Cohn, Producer
(P) Originally released 1933. All rights reserved by Columbia Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment
Blind Willie, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Blind Willie McTell, Guitar, Vocal - McTell, Composer, Lyricist - David Mitson, Mastering Engineer - Adam Block, Director - Howard Fritzson, Director - Lawrence Cohn, Producer
Originally Released 1933 SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT
Blind Willie, Guitar, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, Vocal - McTell, Composer, Lyricist - David Mitson, Mastering Engineer - Adam Block, Director - Howard Fritzson, Director - Lawrence Cohn, Producer - Curley Waever, Guitar
Originally Released 1933 SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT
Blind Willie, Guitar, Vocal - Blind Willie McTell, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - McTell, Composer, Lyricist - David Mitson, Mastering Engineer - Adam Block, Director - Howard Fritzson, Director - Lawrence Cohn, Producer - Curley Waever, Guitar
Originally Released 1933 SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT
Blind Willie, Guitar, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, Vocal - McTell, Composer, Lyricist - David Mitson, Mastering Engineer - Adam Block, Director - Howard Fritzson, Director - Lawrence Cohn, Producer - Curley Waever, Guitar
Originally Released 1933 SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT
Blind Willie, Guitar, Vocal - Blind Willie McTell, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - McTell, Composer, Lyricist - David Mitson, Mastering Engineer - Adam Block, Director - Howard Fritzson, Director - Lawrence Cohn, Producer - Curley Waever, Guitar
Originally Released 1933 SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT
Blind Willie, Guitar, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, Vocal - McTell, Composer, Lyricist - David Mitson, Mastering Engineer - Adam Block, Director - Howard Fritzson, Director - Lawrence Cohn, Producer - Curley Waever, Guitar
Originally Released 1933 SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT
Blind Willie, Guitar, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, Vocal - McTell, Composer, Lyricist - David Mitson, Mastering Engineer - Adam Block, Director - Howard Fritzson, Director - Lawrence Cohn, Producer - Curley Waever, Guitar
Originally Released 1933 SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT
Blind Willie, Guitar, Vocal - Blind Willie McTell, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - McTell, Composer, Lyricist - David Mitson, Mastering Engineer - Adam Block, Director - Howard Fritzson, Director - Lawrence Cohn, Producer - Curley Waever, Guitar
Originally Released 1933 SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT
Blind Willie McTell, Guitar, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, Vocal - McTell, Composer, Lyricist - Curley Weaver, Guitar - David Mitson, Mastering Engineer - Adam Block, Director - Howard Fritzson, Director - Lawrence Cohn, Producer
Originally Released 1933 SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT
Blind Willie McTell, Guitar, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, Vocal - McTell, Composer, Lyricist - Curley Weaver, Guitar - David Mitson, Mastering Engineer - Adam Block, Director - Howard Fritzson, Director - Lawrence Cohn, Producer
Originally Released 1933 SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT
Blind Willie McTell, Guitar, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, Vocal - McTell, Composer, Lyricist - Curley Weaver, Guitar - David Mitson, Mastering Engineer - Adam Block, Director - Howard Fritzson, Director - Lawrence Cohn, Producer
Originally Released 1933 SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT
Blind Willie McTell, Guitar, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, Vocal - McTell, Composer, Lyricist - Curley Weaver, Guitar - David Mitson, Mastering Engineer - Adam Block, Director - Howard Fritzson, Director - Lawrence Cohn, Producer
Originally Released 1933 SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT
Blind Willie McTell, Guitar, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, Vocal - McTell, Composer, Lyricist - Curley Weaver, Guitar - David Mitson, Mastering Engineer - Adam Block, Director - Howard Fritzson, Director - Lawrence Cohn, Producer
Originally Released 1934 SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT
Blind Willie McTell, Guitar, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, Vocal - McTell, Composer, Lyricist - Curley Weaver, Guitar - David Mitson, Mastering Engineer - Adam Block, Director - Howard Fritzson, Director - Lawrence Cohn, Producer
Originally Released 1934 SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT
Blind Willie McTell, Guitar, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, Vocal - McTell, Composer, Lyricist - Curley Weaver, Guitar - David Mitson, Mastering Engineer - Adam Block, Director - Howard Fritzson, Director - Lawrence Cohn, Producer
Originally Released 1933 SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT
Album review
This double-CD set is a little misleading. It is definitive, but only in terms of McTell's Columbia and Okeh sides -- you won't find "Statesboro Blues" or his other earliest sides here, because they were done for Victor. But the material that is here is all worthwhile, and this is the best single source for McTell's work for those labels (done under a variety of names) from the mid-'30s, very nicely remastered and thoroughly annotated, although producer Lawrence Cohn concedes that even Sony Legacy was unable to locate sources on a handful of songs that McTell is known to have recorded.
© Bruce Eder /TiVo
About the album
- 2 disc(s) - 41 track(s)
- Total length: 02:03:22
- Main artists: Blind Willie McTell
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Legacy - Columbia
- Genre: Blues/Country/Folk Blues
(P) 1994 SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT
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