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. The blues is a vocal and instrumental form of music based on a pentatonic scale and a characteristic twelve-bar chord progression. ... Steve Howe playing lead guitar for Yes in 1977 A guitarist is a musician who plays the guitar. ... LeAnn Rimes singing in concert A singer is a type of musician who uses his or her voice as an instrument to produce music. ... 1908 (MCMVIII) is a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Wadesboro is a town located in Anson County, North Carolina. ... February 13 is the 44th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... For the movie, see 1941 (film) 1941 (MCMXLI) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Nickname: City of Medicine Motto: Official website: http://www. ... A guitar is a stringed musical instrument. ...

Blind Boy Fuller was one the most popular of the Piedmont blues artists that counted Reverend Gary Davis, Blind Willie McTell and Blind Blake 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'. He was often accompanied on harmonica by Sonny Terry. The Piedmont blues is a type of blues music characterized by a unique fingerpicking method on the guitar in which a regular, alternating-thumb bass pattern supports a melody using treble strings. ... Reverend Gary Davis (Blind Gary Davis, April 30, 1896 – May 5, 1972) was an African American blues and gospel singer and guitarist. ... Blind Willie McTell Blind Willie McTell (May 5, 1901–August 15, 1959) (probably born William Samuel McTear) was an influential blues singer and guitarist. ... Blind Blake Blind Blake (born Arthur Blake, circa 1893, Jacksonville, Florida; died: circa 1933) was an influential blues singer and guitarist. ... Walter Brownie McGhee (November 30, 1915 - February 16, 1996) was a folk-blues singer and guitarist, best known for his collaborations with the harmonica player Sonny Terry. ... Saunders Terrell, better known as Sonny Terry, was born in Greensboro, North Carolina in 1911 and died on March 11, 1986 in Mineola, New York. ...

Blind Boy Fuller lived fast and died young in 1942, only 33 years old. Blind Boy Fuller was a fine, expressive vocalist and a masterful guitar player best remembered for his uptempo ragtime hits "Rag Mama Rag," "Trucking My Blues Away," and "Step It Up and Go." At the same time he was capable of deeper material, and his versions of "Lost Lover Blues" or "Mamie" are as deep as most Delta blues. Because of his popularity, he may have been overexposed on records, yet most of his songs remained close to tradition and much of his repertoire and style is kept alive by North Carolina and Virginia artists today.

The location of the final resting place of Blind Boy Fuller is on private property in Durham, North Carolina. State records indicate that this was once an official cemetery, and Fuller's interment is recorded. The only remaining headstone is not that of Blind Boy Fuller. On July 16, 2001, the City of Durham recognized the career and significance of Blind Boy Fuller.