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Blind Boy Fuller (born Fulton Allen) was an American blues guitarist and vocalist. Fuller was born in July 10, 1907 in Wadesboro, North Carolina and died February 13, 1941 in Durham, North Carolina. He played a steel National resonator guitar.
As a boy Fuller learned to play the guitar and also learned from older singers the field hollers, country rags, and traditional songs and blues popular in poor, rural areas. It is reported that around 1926 he suffered from ulcerated eyes and became partially blind. His vision continued to deteriorate until 1928, when he was completely blind.
He started playing at informal gatherings and as he grew older, the opportunities for a blind black man being limited, he turned to getting what employment he could as a singer and entertainer at dives, street corners, house parties, and dances for pay.
He became well known enough that in 1935 he received an offer to record. Over a period of five years, Fuller made over 120 sides and his recordings appeared on several labels.
His style of singing was rough and direct, and his lyrics explicit and uninhibited as he drew from from every aspect of his experience as an underpriviledged person on the streets — pawnshops, jailhouses, sickness, death — with an honesty that lacked sentimentality. Although he was not sophisticated, his artistry as a folk singer lay in the honesty and integrity of his self-expression. His songs contained desire, love, jealousy, disappointment, menace and humor.[1]
As a boy Fuller learned to play the guitar and also learned from older singers the field hollers, country rags, and traditional songs and blues popular in poor, rural areas. It is reported that around 1926 he suffered from ulcerated eyes and became partially blind. His vision continued to deteriorate until 1928, when he was completely blind.
He started playing at informal gatherings and as he grew older, the opportunities for a blind black man being limited, he turned to getting what employment he could as a singer and entertainer at dives, street corners, house parties, and dances for pay.
He became well known enough that in 1935 he received an offer to record. Over a period of five years, Fuller made over 120 sides and his recordings appeared on several labels.
His style of singing was rough and direct, and his lyrics explicit and uninhibited as he drew from from every aspect of his experience as an underpriviledged person on the streets — pawnshops, jailhouses, sickness, death — with an honesty that lacked sentimentality. Although he was not sophisticated, his artistry as a folk singer lay in the honesty and integrity of his self-expression. His songs contained desire, love, jealousy, disappointment, menace and humor.[1]
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Truckin' My Blues Away
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Blind Boy Fuller Vol. 4 1937 - 1938
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Looking For My Woman
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Somebody's Been Playing with that Thing
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I'm a Rattlesnakin' Daddy
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Homesick And Lonesome Blues
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My Brownskin Sugar Plum
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Jivin' Woman Blues
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Homesick & Lonesome Blues
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Rag Mama Rag
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Sweet Honey Hole
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Shake That Shimmy
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Weeping Willow
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Meat Shakin' Woman
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FFer2 wrote:
Blind Boy Fuller belongs to my playlist "Piedmont Blues".
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voodoolounger wrote:
great blues, real blues
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Kaciopeya wrote:
Its greatest blues singer. I like his music very music.
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bettygroove wrote:
:)
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SpINosO wrote:
yeahhh
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Jim_Lithium wrote:
Keep on truckin'.
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dianashamilton wrote:
I love Brownie McGhee too, but Mr. Fuller has a certain extra sprightliness that's even more appealing to me. Someone may think sprightly and blues don't go together- but I saw someone tagged him need to hear- and it's true. ;)
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SweetColdCuts wrote:
I'd have to say his protégé Brownie McGhee beats him because of a diverse works with the style.
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johnnybrogan wrote:
best piedmont blues guitarist evr
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