The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #134452   Message #3059113
Posted By: 12-stringer
22-Dec-10 - 03:12 AM
Thread Name: Review: Willie McTell lps - which one to buy?
Subject: McTell pseudos
He was Blind Willie McTell on Victor (1927-29), Blind Sammie on Columbia (1929-31), Georgia Bill on Okeh (1931), Blind Willie/Red Hot Willie on Victor (1932), Blind Willie on ARC (1933 and 1937), Blind Willie McTell on Decca (1935), and Barrelhouse Sammy (the Country Boy) on Atlantic (1949). A couple of religious songs from his 1949 Regal session were issued by Blind Willy/Willie McTell, but the only issued non-religious 78 was credited to the Pig 'n Whistle Band. The Regal tracks have been issued on LP and CD as by "Pig 'n Whistle Red," though I don't know if McTell ever actually used that name himself. "Samuel" was his middle name. McTell references himself in songs almost as often as Jerry Lee Lewis and always uses the correct pseudo for whichever label had given him a microphone.