Blind Willie McTell’s 1940 Library of Congress Session

A Bluesman’s Master Class in Southern Roots Music

The November 5, 1940, headline of The Atlanta Constitution read, “Roosevelt, Willkie Make Final Plea as 50,000,000 Prepare to Vote Today.” By day’s end, President Franklin D. Roosevelt would win an unprecedented third term of office, carrying the entire South in the process. That same day, history of another sort was being made in an Atlanta hotel room …