Blind Boy Fuller

Blind Boy Fuller (born Fulton Allen) was an American blues guitarist and vocalist. Fuller was born in 1908 in Wadesboro, North Carolina and died February 13 1941 in Durham, North Carolina. He played a steel National resonator guitar.

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American - Blues - Guitarist - Vocalist - 1908 - Wadesboro, North Carolina - February 13 - 1941 - Durham, North Carolina

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Blind Boy Fuller was the most popular of the Piedmont blues artists that counted Rev. Gary Davis, Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee amongst its number. He was so popular that when he died Brownie McGhee began a short lived career as Blind Boy Fuller No.2 so as to cash in on his popularity. His song, 'Trucking My Blues Away', also gave America the famous saying 'Keep On Trucking', and his 'Custard Pie Blues' was later 'borrowed' by Led Zeppelin on their Physical Graffiti album. He was often accompanied on harmonica by Sonny Terry who later achieved, along with Brownie McGhee, fame on a worldwide scale

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