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Blind Willie McTell:
🎵 Cold Winter Day

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https://thedocumentstore.bandcamp.com/track/cold-winter-day

https://open.spotify.com/track/16qgHnLBzlRsJYSoyG7c3x

Blind Willie McTell is one of those musical prodigies of music history. I had the record from back when Suzy Q Records was still a record store, and I never listened to it. The recordings are eerily bad; you can even hear traffic in the background at times. But one day I finally listened to it properly, worked my way through the interference, and then I couldn't stop listening to it. What magical songs, what complex songwriting... and even if it's overused, what punk lyrics. I covered “Dying Crapshooters Blues” on the “Desperation” LP. A tribute to a magician.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1DwpJkWliA

https://word.undead-network.de/2025/04/17/i-want-nine-man-going-to-the-graveyard-and-only-eight-men-comin-back/
#BlindWillieMcTell #blues #magic #music #musik #punk

#BlindWillieMcTell
July 13, 2013
#BDLyricChange

(New lyrics for this song are rare, usually limited to the “I’ll tell you one thing” hook borrowed from the cover by The Band. But here’s a new one, in place of the “chain gang on the highway…” lines.)

Well, some of them were killed in battle
Well, some of them survived as well
I can tell you one thing, that nobody can sing the blues
Like Blind Willie McTell

#bd20130713
#BobDylan

#BobDylan was right when he said that nobody sings the #blues like #BlindWillieMcTell. Here is a song that isn’t his most famous - in fact it isn’t even mentioned in Michael Gray’s 400-page biography of McTell - but it’s wonderful:

https://youtu.be/_PExBebrP1E

Kill it Kid!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mlOhoCtpoM
https://word.undead-network.de/2022/04/10/kill-it-kid/
#BlindWillieMcTell #kid #kill

Blind Willie McTells – Dying Crapshooter’s Blues – Reverend Elvis

https://media.undeadnetwork.de/w/2BB9A9WaNwjQjZKTC6J1B4

https://word.undead-network.de/2022/04/10/blind-willie-mctells-dying-crapshooters-blues-reverend-elvis/
#BlindWillieMcTell #reverendelvis

Reverend Elvis version of Blind Willie McTells – Dying Crapshooter’s Blues
https://media.undeadnetwork.de/w/2BB9A9WaNwjQjZKTC6J1B4
https://word.undead-network.de/2021/09/10/reverend-elvis-version-of-blind-willie-mctells-dying-crapshooters-blues/
#BlindWillieMcTell #blues #reverendelvis