Monday Blues: Blind Boy Fuller – “Rag, Mama, Rag”

Today’s Monday Blues is brought to you by North Carolina’s own Piedmont Blues legend Blind Boy Fuller.

Blind Boy Fuller was popular from 1928 until his death in 1941 at age 33. He, along with Blind Blake, Josh White, and Buddy Moss, pioneered Piedmont Blues, a sound Wikipedia says is “characterized by a fingerpicking approach in which a regular, alternating thumb bass string rhythmic pattern.”

Fuller and Piedmont Blues was popular in the 1930s.

So travel back in time and let Blind Boy Fuller lead the way.

Blind Boy Fuller – “Rag, Mama, Rag”