According to Bob Dylan, “And I know no one can sing the blues, like Blind Willie McTell.” Which may be true, but what he should have added was that Blind Willie played and sang rags and folk songs too. Willie McTell also played a 12-string guitar because it was the ideal instrument for playing on street corners; louder than the 6-string it allowed him to attract an audience and entertain a large one. This may well have been why Edward Rhodes, an…
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