# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/blind-willie-mctell
# Generated: 2026-08-14T07:58:52.403Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/blind-willie-mctell"
name: "Blind Willie McTell"
slug: "blind-willie-mctell"
description: "Blind Willie McTell was an American Piedmont blues and ragtime singer, songwriter and guitarist. He played in a fluid, syncopated finger picking guitar style common among many East Coast, Piedmont blues players. Like his Atlanta contemporaries, he came to use twelve-string guitars exclusively. McTell was also adept at slide guitar, unusual among ragtime bluesmen. He sang in a smooth and often laid-back tenor which differed greatly from the harsher voices of many Delta bluesmen such as Charley Patton. He performed in various musical styles including blues, ragtime, religious music, and hokum and recorded more than 120 titles during fourteen recording sessions."
tagline: "Piedmont and ragtime blues singer and guitarist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Blind_Willie_McTell_LOC.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1898-05-05"
deathDate: "1959-08-19"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           52.04
  momentum:             0
  historical:           19.42467066666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1894127/"
    handle:    "nm1894127"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump