Blind Boy Fuller is probably the best remembered of the group of Piedmont style blues artists that included Blind Blake, Josh White and Tampa Red.
Few traditional blues players of the 1940s and 1950s didn’t perform some of Blake’s music, his best known pieces being “Truckin’ My Blues Away”, “Step It Up and Go” and “Rag, Mama, Rag”.
Originally published on Tue September 18, 2012 5:38 pm
Credit Ben Watts / Courtesy of the artist
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