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Fulton Allen (July 10, 1904 – February 13, 1941), 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.
Jul 16, 2008 · Saunders Terrell, better known as Sonny Terry (24 October 1911, Greensboro, North Carolina - 11 March 1986, Mineola, New York was a blind blues musician. He was most widely known for his...
May 13, 2015 · With his thumping, big-voiced songs of sex and crime, the original Blind Boy Fuller was the Piedmont blues’ Notorious B.I.G. and shouldn’t be forgotten.
Profile: Born: July 10, 1907 (or 1904) in Wadesboro, North Carolina. Died: February 13, 1941 in Durham, North Carolina. Fulton Allen was a prolific North Carolina blues guitarist and vocalist who recorded under the name Blind Boy Fuller, owing to blindness caused by retinal ulcers.
Blind Boy Fuller was a powerful singer and superb Piedmont Blues guitarist who made dozens of hit records in the 30s, but died while he was still young.
Fulton Allen (July 10, 1904 – February 13, 1941), 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.
Nov 10, 2016 · Fulton Allen, also known as Blind Boy Fuller, was one of the most influential and popular Bluesmen of the 1930s. Born in Wadesboro, NC in 1908, Fuller was one of the pioneers of the Piedmont style of Blues that helped define the sound of the Southeast Atlantic coast of the United States.
This guitar player was Blind Boy Fuller. He would become one of four great Piedmont bluesmen who were then all making the circuit of the North Carolina tobacco towns like Winston Salem, Greensboro, Durham, and Raleigh, during the Depression.
Blind North Carolinan blues singer/guitarist in the Piedmont tradition who recorded from the mid-1930s to the early '40s. Read Full Biography.
Nov 19, 2023 · During his short but prolific recording career, circa 1935- 1941, Piedmont bluesman Blind Boy Fuller was one of the most popular performers in the Southeast United States. His records sold in the thousands, (impressive numbers during the late-1930s) and his ability to perform in traditional blues, ragtime, hokum, and pop styles ...
