Blind Willies is an American folk rock band based in San Francisco.The group was founded by singer-songwriter Alexei Wajchman while he was a student at San Francisco School of the Arts in 2002.The band began as a duo, with guitarist Wajchman and fiddler Annie Staninec, playing covers of American folk songs.They soon made the transition to Wajchman's original songs which he began writing when he was 15.