Blind Boy Fuller, Feb. 21, 2015
INFORMATION ABOUT BLIND BOY FULLER https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blind_Boy_Fuller "Fulton Allen (July 10, 1904[1] – February 13, 1941),[2] known as Blind Boy Fuller, was an American blues guitarist and singer. Fuller was one of the most popular of the recorded Piedmont blues artists, along with Blind Blake, Josh White, and Buddy Moss.
Fulton Allen (July 10, 1904[1] – February 13, 1941),[2]
known as Blind Boy Fuller, was an American blues guitarist and singer. Fuller
was one of the most popular of the recorded Piedmont blues artists, along with
Blind Blake, Josh White, and Buddy Moss.
Life and career
Allen was born in Wadesboro, North Carolina, United
States,[3] one of ten children of Calvin Allen and Mary Jane Walker. Most
sources date his birth to 1907, but the researchers Bob Eagle and Eric LeBlanc
indicate 1904.[1] After the death of his mother, he moved with his father to
Rockingham, North Carolina. As a boy he learned to play the guitar and also
learned from older singers the field hollers, country rags, traditional songs
and blues popular in poor rural areas.
[…]
By 1928 he was completely blind. He turned to whatever
employment he could find as a singer and entertainer, often playing in the
streets.[3] By studying the records of country blues players like Blind Blake
and live performances by Gary Davis, Allen became a formidable guitarist,
playing on street corners and at house parties in Winston-Salem, North
Carolina; Danville, Virginia; and then Durham, North Carolina.[3] In Durham,
playing around the tobacco warehouses, he developed a local following, which included
the guitarists Floyd Council and Richard Trice, the harmonica player Saunders
Terrell (better known as Sonny Terry), and the washboard player and guitarist
George Washington.
[…]
Fuller's repertoire included a number of popular
double-entendre "hokum" songs, such as "I Want Some of Your
Pie", "Truckin' My Blues Away" (1936) (the inspiration for
Robert Crumb's "Keep On Truckin' " comic), "Let Me Squeeze Your
Lemon", and "Get Your Yas Yas Out" (1938)[3] (adapted as Get Yer
Ya-Ya's Out for the title of an album by the Rolling Stones), and the
autobiographical "Big House Bound", about his time in prison. Much of
his material was culled from traditional folk and blues songs. He possessed a
formidable fingerpicking guitar style. He played a steel National resonator
guitar.[10] He was criticised by some as a derivative musician, but his ability
to fuse together elements of traditional and contemporary songs and reformulate
them in his own performances attracted a broad audience.[6] He was an
expressive vocalist and a masterful guitar player, best remembered for his
up-tempo ragtime hits, including "Step It Up and Go". At the same
time he was capable of deeper material; his versions of "Lost Lover
Blues", "Rattlesnakin' Daddy" and "Mamie" are as deep
as most Delta blues.[3] Because of his popularity, he may have been overexposed
on records, but most of his songs stayed close to tradition, and much of his
repertoire and style is kept alive by other Piedmont artists to this day"...
**** LYRICS- TRUCKIN' MY BLUES AWAY
I got a gal here, in this town, the best-lookin' brown
around
I got a gal, in this town, the best-lookin' brown around
She's a strictly tailor-made, she ain't no hand-me-down
Catch you trucking' with her, I'm gonna sure shoot you down
Keep on truckin', mama, truckin' my blues away
Truckin' my blues away
[Verse 2]
Keep on truckin', mama, truckin' my blues away
Keep on truckin' mama, 'til you truck my blues away
I got a gal, she's little and neat
Shen she start to truckin', man it's so sweet
Keep on truckin', mama, truckin' my blues away
Truckin' my blues away
[Verse 3]
Keep on truckin', baby, truckin' my blues away (Yes!)
Keep on truckin', baby, truckin' my blues away
I know a gal, she's long and tall, when she start to
truckin' make a little man squall
Keep on truckin', mama, truckin' my blues away
I mean, truckin' my blues away
Yeah!
[Scat verse]
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[Verse 4]
Keep on truckin', baby, truckin' my bluеs away
Keep on truckin', mama, truckin' my blues away
She does thе dance you call beedle-um-bum, sure miss
something if you don't truck some
Keep on truckin', mama, truckin' my blues away
Truckin' my blues away
[Verse 5]
Keep on truckin', baby, truckin' my blues away
Keep on truckin', mama, truckin' my blues away (Yea!)
You don't have to hurry, you don't have to go, wait a little
while you might want to truck some more
Keep on truckin', baby, truckin' my blues away, truckin' my
blues away
[Verse 6]
Keep on truckin', mama, truckin' my blues away (Yeah!)
Keep on truckin', baby, truckin' my blues away
Make a lame man run, make a blind man see, sure gets good
when she truckin' with me
Keep on truckin', baby, truck my blues away...
1. Comment: @pgestudio75, 2023
"Funny to think that the "Keep On Truckin' " logo
that was ever so popular by a comic by Robert Crumb in the late 60's and early
70's, actually originated from Blind Boy Fuller's song, "Truckin' My Blues
Away" from decades earlier. If you
lived in the late 60's, 70's or even into the early 80's, you almost inevitably
know of the famous "Keep On Truckin' " logo that you'd see
everywhere. After reading an article on
the topic, the curiosity of what that song sounded like brought me here. Neat stuff! The song is impressive!
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2. @Bram25, 2024
"Robert Crumb made several books on the blues and his blues
heroes."
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