Ten Fingers Blind Willem Niewold

April 2 - 8

Blue Ridge Mountains

'Ten Fingers Blind Fingerstyle Guitar Retreat'.

Willem Niewold tells the story of Ten Fingers Blind Willie in a book (to be ordered at: w.niewold@home.nl).

And in a theatre performance. (Call or mail.)

Soon to come: YouTube guitar lessons on the Ten Fingers Blind Guitar Technique. (Subcribe to my YouTube channel to be updated.)

Info at w.niewold@home.nl

phone: 0031 6 53492231

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He’s gone, Blind Boy Wille’s gone away.

He’s gone, Blind Boy Wille’s gone away.

He heard a voice calling, said he couldn’t stay

He called me to his bedside, said his time was done.

He called me to his bedside, said his time was done.

He said: Bill, take my guitar and carry my business on.

After I adopted his unique way of playing, and found him, Ten Fingers Blind Willie said: 'Bill, take my guitar and carry my business on. You can even use my stagename if you like.' I was so grateful I felt I had to try to take his legacy to the next level.

Ten Fingers Blind Willie was a legend and I want to play his songs, tell his story and, most of all, promote his vision on the technique of playing the guitar.

Subscribe to my YouTube channel and you’ll be updated with examples of Ten Fingers Blind Willie’s music and lyrics, and with some compelling background information. Shortly you can even subscribe to a complete course on the Ten Fingers Blind Finger Style Guitar Technique and before you know you'll be able to play in a way you never thought possible.

If curious: order the book and read the story of Ten Fingers Blind Willie.

Or if you want to be entertained: come, see and listen to 'Doctor Brown's Medicin show featuring Ten Fingers Blind Willie'.

Biography

Ten Fingers Blind Willie was born in the woods between Ponchatoula and Akers, Louisiana, son of a single mother who had a hard time: the man she loved had left her the day she gave birth.

'Willie was born blind, never got to see how good-looking he was until his miraculous healing by Doctor Brown at the age of seventeen...' That was one version of the story I came across in the Mississippi Delta.

Not exactly what Tom Wilson, a one-stop owner in Akers, Louisiana, told me. Mr. Wilson claimed that Willie’s grandfather, the popular gospel-singer Reverend Jerry Daylight, taught him how to play guitar and sing gospel. According to him Willie developed his own way of playing and had the habit of changing words of a song after his own whimsical ideas. He said Willie lost eyesight in a fight with his grandfather over some lyrics he wrote and sang to the local congregation weeks before he got cured by Dr. Brown.

Visually handicapped or not, it was clear that this man had developed his own vision on playing the guitar - the reason why I started looking for him in the first place.

Willem Niewold