MUSICIAN

Blind Willie McTell

1898 - 1959

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Blind Willie McTell (born William Samuel McTier; May 5, 1898 – August 19, 1959) 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Blind Willie McTell has received more than 558,220 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia. Blind Willie McTell is the 1,627th most popular musician (down from 1,243rd in 2019), the 8,167th most popular biography from United States (down from 6,181st in 2019) and the 602nd most popular American Musician.

Memorability Metrics

  • 560k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 46.02

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.54

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.58

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among MUSICIANS

Among musicians, Blind Willie McTell ranks 1,627 out of 3,175. Before him are Myra Hess, Gavin Harrison, Mike Mills, Flavor Flav, Cliff Edwards, and Otis Spann. After him are Olve Eikemo, Juice Leskinen, Benno Moiseiwitsch, Miyavi, Luciano Ligabue, and Andy White.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1898, Blind Willie McTell ranks 244. Before him are Leonard Howell, Zinaida Yermolyeva, Maria Klenova, Scott O'Dell, Fedde Schurer, and Petar Gabrovski. After him are Carl Johnson, Mario Mattoli, John Loder, Boris Lisunov, Hugh Latimer Dryden, and Constance Talmadge. Among people deceased in 1959, Blind Willie McTell ranks 183. Before him are Andrés Martínez Trueba, Patrick O'Connell, Ragnar Malm, Abraham Flexner, Elisabeth Moore, and Boris Lavrenyov. After him are Jerónimo Méndez, Otto Bartning, Al LeConey, Guillermo Riveros, George Padmore, and Osvaldo Sáez.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Blind Willie McTell ranks 8,167 out of 20,380. Before him are William Wilson Morgan (1906), Sean Flynn (1941), Otis Spann (1924), Stanley Norman Cohen (1935), Samuel Eliot Morison (1887), and Mac Miller (1992). After him are Christopher George (1931), Amy Tan (1952), Robert Wrenn (1873), Maud Barger-Wallach (1870), Frederica von Stade (1945), and Denise Crosby (1957).

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Among MUSICIANS In United States

Among musicians born in United States, Blind Willie McTell ranks 602. Before him are Jimmy Giuffre (1921), Daryl Stuermer (1952), Mike Mills (1958), Flavor Flav (1959), Cliff Edwards (1895), and Otis Spann (1924). After him are Arthur Lee (1945), Roy Estrada (1943), Peter Buck (1956), Rob Bourdon (1979), Erykah Badu (1971), and ASAP Rocky (1988).

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