Blind Willie McTell's Last Tape was a vinyl album released sometime in the early sixties, and knocked me out as much as Huddie Ledbetter had earlier. I agree with the word 'songsman'. His own songs were pretty loose in metric structure, to say the least- think Bob Bossin with a 12 string!- but his playing was dazzling to me in the throes of initial love of the 12 string guitar. I know little of his history, so the bio will be fun. Carter B