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Okay so I don't really get twitter but I did start following this guy aptly called thedeltablues who has a website called surprise, The Delta Blues over in wordpress land. As I am currently obsessed with learning to play the delta blues I took a gander at his site and found it to be quite good. I really recommend checking it out.

Here is a little except from a recent article on Blind Willie McTell.

Though he wasn’t from the Delta, per se, he could play those country blues. “Blind Willie” McTell was one of the great blues musicians of the 1920s and 1930s. Displaying an extraordinary range on the twelve-string guitar, this Atlanta-based musician recorded more than 120 titles during fourteen recording sessions. His voice was soft and expressive, and his musical tastes were influenced by southern blues, ragtime, gospel, hillbilly, and popular music.......