Level: 2/3
Tuning: Open G

As Bob Dylan sings: "And I know no one can sing the blues, like Blind Willie McTell." McTell was born William Samuel McTier in 1898. After his mother died, in the 1920s, he left his hometown and became an itinerant musician, or "songster." He began his recording career in 1927 for Victor Records in Atlanta. He played with a fluid, syncopated fingerstyle guitar technique, common among many exponents of Piedmont blues. Unlike his contemporaries, he came to use twelve-string guitars exclusively. McTell was also an adept slide guitarist, unusual among ragtime bluesmen. His vocal style, a smooth and often laid-back tenor, differed greatly from many of the harsher voice types employed by Delta bluesmen, such as Charley Patton. Blind Willie McTell performed in various musical styles, including blues, ragtime, religious music and hokum. "Love Changing Blues" is played in Open G tuning