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Blind Boy Fuller
Blind Boy Fuller was an American blues guitarist and singer. Of the recorded Piedmont blues artists, a group that includes Blind Blake, Josh White, and Buddy Moss, Fuller was one of the most popular with rural African Americans. Wikipedia
Born: July 10, 1907, Wadesboro, NC
Died: February 13, 1941, Durham, NC
Fuller, Blind Boy
Blind Boy Fuller (1908-1941) is arguably the most popular and influential Piedmont blues musician of all time. Like Blind Blake, his repertoire was vast: he played ragtime, blues and the pop music of his day, all on his National steel guitar. According to Barry Lee Pearson, Fuller was able "to reinterpret and cover the hits of other artists—in this sense, he was a synthesizer of styles, parallel in many ways to Robert Johnson." Also similar to Johnson, Fuller lived the hard blues life, dying at the age of thirty-three in 1941. Many of Fuller's songs are covered by Lower Chattahoochee artists, including the ragtime classic "Step it Up and Go" (From southernspaces.org/content/piedmont-blues)
Blind Boy Fuller was an American blues guitarist and singer. Of the recorded Piedmont blues artists, a group that includes Blind Blake, Josh White, and Buddy Moss, Fuller was one of the most popular with rural African Americans. Wikipedia
Born: July 10, 1907, Wadesboro, NC
Died: February 13, 1941, Durham, NC
Fuller, Blind Boy
Blind Boy Fuller (1908-1941) is arguably the most popular and influential Piedmont blues musician of all time. Like Blind Blake, his repertoire was vast: he played ragtime, blues and the pop music of his day, all on his National steel guitar. According to Barry Lee Pearson, Fuller was able "to reinterpret and cover the hits of other artists—in this sense, he was a synthesizer of styles, parallel in many ways to Robert Johnson." Also similar to Johnson, Fuller lived the hard blues life, dying at the age of thirty-three in 1941. Many of Fuller's songs are covered by Lower Chattahoochee artists, including the ragtime classic "Step it Up and Go" (From southernspaces.org/content/piedmont-blues)