블라인드 윌리 맥텔

소개

블라인드 윌리 맥텔(Blind Willie McTell, 1898년 5월 5일 ~ 1959년 8월 19일)은 맹인 뮤지션으로서 행인들의 요구에 따라 길이나 시장, 혹은 주차장 주위에서 노래하고 연주했다.

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 guitars exclusively. McTell was also adept at slide guitar, unusual among ragtime bluesmen. He sang in a smooth and often laid-back tenor which differed greatly from the harsher voices of many Delta bluesmen such as Charley Patton. He performed in various musical styles including blues, ragtime, religious music, and hokum and recorded more than 120 titles during fourteen recording sessions.