Jesse Fuller
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Jesse Fuller – Tiger Rag (Instrumental)
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Fuller was born in Jonesboro, Georgia, near Atlanta. He was sent by his mother to live with foster parents when he was a young child, in a rural setting where he was badly mistreated. Growing up, he worked a multitude of jobs: grazing cows for ten cents a day, working in a barrel factory, a broom factory, a rock quarry, on a railroad and a streetcar company, shining shoes, and even peddling hand-carved wooden snakes.
He came west and in the 1920s worked briefly as a film extra in The Thief of Bagdad and East of Suez. Eventually he settled in Oakland, California, across the bay from San Francisco, where he worked for the Southern Pacific railroad. During World War II, he worked as a shipyard welder, but when the war ended he found it increasingly difficult to find work. Around the early 1950s, Fuller’s thoughts turned toward the possibility of making a living playing music.
Up to this point, Fuller had never worked professionally as a musician, but had certainly been exposed to music, and had learned to play guitar and picked up quite a number of songs: country blues, work songs, ballads, spirituals and instrumentals. And he had carried his guitar with him and played for money by passing the hat. When he decided to try to work as a professional, he found it hard to find other musicians to work with: thus his one-man band act was born.
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Brother Lowdown
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Move On Down the Line
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San Francisco Bay Blues
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Jazz, Folk Songs, Spirituals, & Blues
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CDPETE01
San Francisco bay Blues is the best,far better than Claptons unplugged version.
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blogmeridian
His version of "John Henry" is intriguing.
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PaulFromOz
Take It Slow!
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musesic
San Francisco Bay Blues, the album is perfect for my holiday hangover.
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ConradPoohs19
Oh man. Just discovered this guy on youtube. Sick. So cool.
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