William Samuel McTear [McTell] May 5 (?) 1903 - August 19, 1959 photo taken inside the Robert Fulton Hotel, November 5, 1940 by Ruby T. Lomax (photo c/o the Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division)
WELCOME TO BLOGGING ABOUT A BOOK ABOUT BLIND WILLIE McTELL..AND BLOGGING ABOUT PRE-WAR BLUES IN GENERAL..
HAND ME MY TRAVELIN' SHOES: In Search of Blind Willie McTell, by Michael Gray
North American hardback published September 2009 by Chicago Review Press. 448 pages. US$26.95. ISBN: 9781556529757.
London: Bloomsbury, July 2nd, 2007. Hardback 1st edition. ISBN: 0 7475 6560 0; ISBN-13: 978-0747565604. £25. The first UK paperback edition was published on October 6, 2008. £9.99. ISBN: 9780747565611.
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The circumstances of his death in that awful place were truly tragic.
It's a shame that he didn't live another three or four years, so that he could have been "re-discovered".
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