On this page you'll find 10+ example sentences with Mctell. Discover how to use the word correctly in a sentence.
Mctell in a sentence
Using Mctell
- In the example corpus, mctell often appears in combinations such as: willie mctell, mctell and.
Context around Mctell
- Average sentence length in these examples: 23.8 words
- Position in the sentence: 4 start, 4 middle, 3 end
- Sentence types: 11 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Mctell
- In this selection, "mctell" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 23.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, willie, discovered, atlanta, indicated, playing and knows stand out and add context to how "mctell" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include asking if mctell knows any and blind willie mctell. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "mctell" sits close to words such as aadi, aayush and abbottabad, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with mctell
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
McTell's father left the family when Willie was young. (10 words)
Hand Me My Travelin’ Shoes: In Search of Blind Willie McTell. (11 words)
Bob Dylan has paid tribute to McTell on at least four occasions. (12 words)
In 1956, an Atlanta record store manager, Edward Rhodes, discovered McTell playing in the street for quarters and enticed him with a bottle of corn liquor into his store, where he captured a few final performances on a tape recorder. (40 words)
In the interview, John A. Lomax is heard asking if McTell knows any "complaining" songs (an earlier term for protest songs ), to which the singer replies somewhat uncomfortably and evasively that he does not. (34 words)
In 2013 Jack White's Third Man Records teamed up with Document Records to issue The Complete Recorded Works in Chronological Order of Charley Patton, Blind Willie McTell and the Mississippi Sheiks. (32 words)
Example sentences (11)
Blind Willie McTell indicated that Blake's real name was Arthur Phelps, but later research has shown this is unlikely to be correct.
Bob Dylan has paid tribute to McTell on at least four occasions.
Hand Me My Travelin’ Shoes: In Search of Blind Willie McTell.
In 1956, an Atlanta record store manager, Edward Rhodes, discovered McTell playing in the street for quarters and enticed him with a bottle of corn liquor into his store, where he captured a few final performances on a tape recorder.
In 2013 Jack White's Third Man Records teamed up with Document Records to issue The Complete Recorded Works in Chronological Order of Charley Patton, Blind Willie McTell and the Mississippi Sheiks.
In his 1965 song " Highway 61 Revisited ", the second verse begins, "Georgia Sam he had a bloody nose", a reference to one of McTell's many recording names.
In the interview, John A. Lomax is heard asking if McTell knows any "complaining" songs (an earlier term for protest songs ), to which the singer replies somewhat uncomfortably and evasively that he does not.
McTell died three years later, having suffered for years from diabetes and alcoholism.
McTell's father left the family when Willie was young.
Singers such as Blind Willie McTell and Blind Boy Fuller performed in the southeastern "delicate and lyrical" Piedmont blues tradition, which used an elaborate ragtime-based fingerpicking guitar technique.
The appellation "Pig & Whistle" was a reference to a chain of barbecue restaurants in Atlanta; McTell often played for tips in the parking lot of a Pig 'n Whistle restaurant.
Common combinations with mctell
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: