Description: Tracks:Just As Well Get Ready, You Got To Die / Climbing High Mountains,Tryin' To Get HomeMonologue on AccidentsBoll WeevilDeliaDying Crapshooter's BluesWill FoxI Got to Cross the River JordanMonologue On Old Songs / Old Time Relgion, AmenAmazing GraceMonologue On History Of The Blues / Monologue On Life As Maker Of Records / Monologue On HimselfKing Edward BluesMurderer's Home BluesKill-It-Kid RagChaineyI Got to Cross de River O'Jordan Performer Notes: Personnel: Blind Willie McTell (vocals, guitar).Liner Note Author: Alan Balfour.Recording information: Atlanta, GA.By the time Georgia native William Samuel "Blind Willie" McTell earned ten dollars by sitting down in a hotel room in Atlanta on November 5, 1940, to preserve his artistry on 15 transcription platters for the Library of Congress, he had achieved a degree of fame by having recorded some 85 sides for multiple labels during the years 1927-1936. Document's 1995 release of McTell's Library of Congress recordings served as a welcome addition to several volumes of chronologically stacked McTell that had appeared on Document in 1990. McTell was a skilled 12-string guitarist, an expressive vocalist, and a well-versed interpreter of ragtime, spirituals, blues, and a wide range of rural folk forms. He performed well for the Library of Congress, sometimes narrating and explaining the social background for his music while fielding John Lomax's rather careless and insensitive questions. What you get here is an excellent spectrum of McTell's stylistic range and repertoire. His slide maneuvers on "Amazing Grace" are strikingly reminiscent of Blind Willie Johnson's technique. The overall content of this hotel room recital points directly to McTell's Atlantic session of November 1949. ~ arwulf arwulf Format: CD (1 Disc); Mono Country: USA Studio/Live: Studio Release Date: 20 May, 2002 Label: Document (USA) Dimensions: 12.5 x 14.2 x 1 centimeters (0.06 kg)
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Track #1: Just As Well Get Ready, You Got To Die / Climbing
Track #2: Monologue on Accidents
Track #3: Boll Weevil
Track #4: Delia
Track #5: Dying Crapshooter's Blues
Track #6: Will Fox
Track #7: I Got to Cross the River Jordan
Track #8: Monologue On Old Songs / Old Time Relgion, Amen
Track #9: Amazing Grace
Track #10: Monologue On History Of The Blues / Monologue On L
Track #11: King Edward Blues
Track #12: Murderer's Home Blues
Track #13: Kill-It-Kid Rag
Track #14: Chainey
Track #15: I Got to Cross de River O'Jordan
Format: CD
Release Year: 1995
Genre: Blues Traditional
Record Label: Document, DCU
Artist: Mctell, Blind Willie
Release Title: Complete L.O.C. 1940
