Music CD - Blind Willie McTell: Atlanta Twelve String

	Music CD: Atlanta Twelve String Artist: Blind Willie McTell List Price: $11.98 Our Price: $7.98 Your Save: $ 4.00 ( 33% ) Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Manufacturer: Atlantic / Wea
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Tracks: 1. Kill It Kid 2. The Razor Ball 3. Little Delia 4. Broke Down Engine 5. Dying Crapshooter's Blues 6. Pinetop's Boogie Woogie - Blind Willie McTell, Gimbel, Norman 7. Blues Around Midnight 8. Last Dime Blues 9. On the Cooling Board 10. Motherless Children Have a Hard Time 11. I Got to Cross the River Jordan 12. You Got to Die 13. Ain't It Grand to Live a Christian 14. Pearly Gates 15. Soon This Morning
Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0075678236624 Label: Atlantic / Wea Manufacturer: Atlantic / Wea Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: Atlantic / Wea Release Date: 1992-02-25 Studio: Atlantic / Wea
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Spotlight customer reviews: Customer Rating: Summary: An Older, But Still Wonderful, Blind Willie McTell Comment: McTell may have lost quite a few steps since the 1920s and '30s by the time this music was recorded, but he was still in excellent form. The disc has a solid song selection and shows us that, had McTell have lived just a few more years, he could have been a huge star in the Country Blues revival. His twelve string guitar playing is exquisite. In my opinion, McTell and Gary Davis are the greatest twelve string guitarists in history; better than Leadbelly and Jesse Fuller. This disc and "Pig 'N' Whistle Red" are extremely enjoyable, but one should buy the JSP McTell box set first! Customer Rating: Summary: perfect present Comment: My brother is a music conisseur. He had been having trouble locating this cd & one other, so I got them both for Christmas. He was extatic. Although I have not personally listened to either one, his face said it all. Customer Rating: Summary: Little Known Masterpiece Comment: I was looking over the blues albums in a music store one day in hopes of finding a good one that I might not have (I have more blues cds than most of the stores, and that is not an exaggeration... and I mean real blues cds, not white celebrity-filled jam fests). When I came across this one, a Mctell that i did not own, I was excited. As excited as I was though, I was not expecting it to be as unbelievable as I discovered it to be. This may well be the man's greatest recording. His voice and playing had matured and taken on an chilling quality. Every song is excellent and distinctive...Mctell is truly unique. The twelve string playing is breath taking and the vocals full of power. Like I said, every track is great, but if I had to mention at least one highlight, his version of Blind Willie Johnson's "Motherless Children..." is haunting. This "album" gave me chills, seriously. Customer Rating: Summary: Genius at Work Comment: One could assume that Blind Willie Mctell had to have all the markings of a blues artist from the 20's who recorded on 78's, recorded under "psuedo names" for different label, was poor, uneducated, lonley, depressed, a faliure, and to top it of was blind. Well truth is, his recordings, as most race records, diden't sell well and he was blind. But he was educated and real and write music in braile. He was supposidly very confident with the real world despite being negro and blind. I wonder how he would have felt if he knew actually how good he was, maybe he did, I don't know. But only three records exsist of Mctell with decent sound quality (Atlanta 12 String, Pig Whistle, Last Session). Its to bad he diden't record more because he lived to 59. Either way his records from the 20's and 30's were actually recorded quite well. One listen through this and you realize that Blind Willie is one of the most influental bluesman ever. He influenced Robert Johnson, who in turn influenced every rock muscian for years. Bob Dylan, who wrote a famous song about Mctell, copied Mctell nearly as much as Woody Gunthrie on "The Freewhilin Bob Dylan". Allman Brothers covered "Statesboro Blues". Jack White from the White Stripes at times sounds just like him, in fact, Jack White can't even get close to Mctell, but does try (they have covered his songs). These are only a few examples, but rather than listen to the decendents, listen to the real thing. He was a great singer, and guitar player, not to mention his diversity of styles. Of any of the old blues genius's have a fault, it is that some of them have little diversity. Not Mctell, here you have happy dancy tunes, dirge's, gospel, blues, ect... Customer Rating: Summary: The Greatest of Blind Willie Comment: I bought this originally for the gospel cuts, which I fell in love with, but soon I started to listen to the blues closer, and everything has given me inspiration at the church house. More Reviews
Editorial Reviews: Atlantic's short-lived Blues Originals series brought forth some real gems: not just Professor Longhair's New Orleans Piano, but this 1949 session by singer-guitarist McTell. What Bob Dylan heard in McTell, the title subject of one of his most fabled songs, is both easy and hard to catch, but there's something eerie in the almost cheerful delivery of songs such as "Dying Crapshooter's Blues." A grand album that forms yet another facet of the label's gemlike catalog. --Rickey Wright