Searching the Desert for the Blues

VINYL FORMAT. The "King of the Georgia blues" and a master of the 12-string guitar, Blind Willie McTell is credited with having created an entire sub genre of the blues by mixing the hard roots of the Delta style with the more refined East Coast style (Piedmont Blues). Although McTell had been busking for change since his early teen years, his official recording career began for Victor in 1927 in Atlanta, Georgia. This 32-track collection of rare sides-originally released on Okeh (as Georgia Bill), Victor (as Hot Shot Willie) and Vocalion (as Blind Willie) finds McTell playing alongside another amazing Georgia blues guitarist, Curley Weaver, and backing two fine Atlanta blues singers Ruth (Mary) Willis and Ruby Glaze.