Jesse Fuller

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San Francisco Bay Blues 00:00 Tools
Cincinnati Blues 00:00 Tools
Leavin' Memphis, Frisco Bound 00:00 Tools
You Can't Keep A Good Man Down 00:00 Tools
Stackolee 00:00 Tools
Jesse's New Midnight Special 00:00 Tools
Crazy About a Woman 00:00 Tools
John Henry 00:00 Tools
Move On Down The Line 00:00 Tools
Stranger Blues 00:00 Tools
Hark From The Tomb 00:00 Tools
Stealing 00:00 Tools
Amazing Grace 00:00 Tools
You're No Good 00:00 Tools
I Got a Mind to Ramble 00:00 Tools
Buck and Wing 00:00 Tools
Morning Blues 00:00 Tools
Little Black Train 00:00 Tools
Stagolee 00:00 Tools
Midnight Cold 00:00 Tools
Key To The Highway 00:00 Tools
Red River Blues 00:00 Tools
Take This Hammer - Instrumental 00:00 Tools
Ninety Nine Years And One Dark Day 00:00 Tools
Hump In My Back 00:00 Tools
Whoa Mule 00:00 Tools
Pretty Little Girl Walkin' Down The Street 00:00 Tools
Memphis Boogie 00:00 Tools
Stagolee - Instrumental 00:00 Tools
How Long Blues 00:00 Tools
Where Could I Go but to the Lord 00:00 Tools
Animal Fair 00:00 Tools
Stealin' Back to My Old Time Used to Be 00:00 Tools
Fingerbuster - Instrumental 00:00 Tools
Rockin' Boogie 00:00 Tools
Tickling The Strings 00:00 Tools
Brownskin Girl (I've Got My Eye on You) 00:00 Tools
Hump In Your Back 00:00 Tools
I Want A Girl (Just Like The Girl That Married Dear Old Dad) 00:00 Tools
Beale Street Blues 00:00 Tools
The Monkey and the Engineer 00:00 Tools
Lining Up The Track 00:00 Tools
Railroad Worksong 00:00 Tools
99 Years 00:00 Tools
Sleeping In The Midnight Cold 00:00 Tools
Hesitation Blues - Instrumental 00:00 Tools
Everybody Works At My House But My Old Man 00:00 Tools
Let Me Hold You In My Arms Tonight 00:00 Tools
I Double Double Do Love You 00:00 Tools
Tiger Rag - Instrumental 00:00 Tools
Where Could I Go To But The Lord 00:00 Tools
Linin' Track - Instrumental 00:00 Tools
Fables Aren't Nothing But Doggone Lies 00:00 Tools
Trouble If I Don't Use My Head 00:00 Tools
Animal Farm 00:00 Tools
Memphis Boogie - Instrumental 00:00 Tools
Brother Lowdown 00:00 Tools
Old Man Mose 00:00 Tools
I've Been So Doggone Lonesome 00:00 Tools
"Guitar Lesson" 00:00 Tools
Crazy Waltz 00:00 Tools
Finger Twister 00:00 Tools
Take This Hammer 00:00 Tools
99 Years - Instrumental 00:00 Tools
I'm Going To Meet My Loving Mother - Instrumental 00:00 Tools
Raise A Ruckus - Instrumental 00:00 Tools
Got A Date At Half Past Eight 00:00 Tools
Brownskin Gal (I've Got My Eyes On You) 00:00 Tools
The Dozens 00:00 Tools
Hesitation Blues 00:00 Tools
Flavor In My Cream 00:00 Tools
By And By - Instrumental 00:00 Tools
Just Like A Ship On The Deep Blue Sea 00:00 Tools
Tiger Rag 00:00 Tools
Midnight Special 00:00 Tools
Railroad Blues 00:00 Tools
Motherless Children 00:00 Tools
Runnin' Wild 00:00 Tools
Fingerbuster 00:00 Tools
Beat It On Down the Line 00:00 Tools
Hanging 'Round A Skin Game 00:00 Tools
As Long As I Can Feel The Spirit 00:00 Tools
Just A Closer Walk With Thee 00:00 Tools
By and By 00:00 Tools
New Corrine 00:00 Tools
Take It Slow and Easy 00:00 Tools
Raise a Ruckus 00:00 Tools
Footdella Stomp 00:00 Tools
I'm Going To Sit Down At The Welcome Table 00:00 Tools
Preacher Lowdown 00:00 Tools
Linin' Track 00:00 Tools
Hey, Hey 00:00 Tools
Together Let Us Live 00:00 Tools
The Way You Treat Me 00:00 Tools
I'm Going to Meet My Loving Mother 00:00 Tools
Down Home Waltz 00:00 Tools
Guitar Blues 00:00 Tools
Stranger's Blues 00:00 Tools
Cincinnati Bules 00:00 Tools
In That Great Land 00:00 Tools
Memphis Boogie (Instrumental) 00:00 Tools
Bill Bailey 00:00 Tools
Bill Bailey Won't You Please Come Home 00:00 Tools
Brownskin Gal I Got My Eyes On You 00:00 Tools
Brownskin Girl 00:00 Tools
Screaming And Crying 00:00 Tools
What Did I Do To Be So Black and Blue? 00:00 Tools
San Fran Bay Blues 00:00 Tools
Monkey and the Engineer 00:00 Tools
Tiger Rag (Instrumental) 00:00 Tools
San Francisco Bay Bay Blues 00:00 Tools
Jesse Fuller - San Francisco Bay Blues 03:37 Tools
Running Wild 00:00 Tools
Buck Dancer's Jump 00:00 Tools
Mr. Engineer 00:00 Tools
I Love My Baby 00:00 Tools
Stagolee (Instrumental) 00:00 Tools
Take This Hammer (Instrumental) 00:00 Tools
Meet My Loving Mother 00:00 Tools
Hanging Around A Skin Game 00:00 Tools
Hesitation Blues (Instrumental) 00:00 Tools
Traditional / In That Great Land 00:00 Tools
99 Years (Instrumental) 00:00 Tools
Tune (Creole Love Call) 00:00 Tools
Brother Low Down 00:00 Tools
Fingerbuster (Instrumental) 00:00 Tools
Raise A Ruckus (Instrumental) 00:00 Tools
Linin' Track (Instrumental) 00:00 Tools
Bye And Bye 00:00 Tools
Jazz_Folk_Songs_Spirituals_Blues-02-Linin_Track 00:00 Tools
Beale Street 00:00 Tools
By And By (Instrumental) 00:00 Tools
San Francisco Bay Blues (Bonus Track) 00:00 Tools
Linin Track 00:00 Tools
Crazy 'Bout A Woman 00:00 Tools
Stealin Back To My Old Time Used To Be 00:00 Tools
I´m Going To Meet My Loving Mother 00:00 Tools
I4m Going To Meet My Loving Mother 00:00 Tools
I'm Going To Meet My Loving Mother (Instrumental) 00:00 Tools
San_Francisco_Bay_Blues-01-San_Francisco_Bay_Blues 00:00 Tools
Hesitatin' Blues 00:00 Tools
Going Back To My Old Used To Be 00:00 Tools
Jazz_Folk_Songs_Spirituals_Blues-04-Tiger_Rag 00:00 Tools
Jazz_Folk_Songs_Spirituals_Blues-06-Raise_A_Ruckus 00:00 Tools
Jazz_Folk_Songs_Spirituals_Blues-05-Memphis_Boogie 00:00 Tools
Leavin Memphis, Frisco bound 00:00 Tools
Jazz_Folk_Songs_Spirituals_Blues-07-By_And_By 00:00 Tools
Bill Bailey, Won't You Please Come Home 00:00 Tools
Finger Buster 00:00 Tools
'Guitar Lesson' 00:00 Tools
Jazz_Folk_Songs_Spirituals_Blues-01-Take_This_Hammer 00:00 Tools
Jazz_Folk_Songs_Spirituals_Blues-03-I_m_Going_To_Meet_My_Loving_Mother 00:00 Tools
Jazz_Folk_Songs_Spirituals_Blues-09-Stagolee 00:00 Tools
Jazz_Folk_Songs_Spirituals_Blues-08-Fingerbuster 00:00 Tools
08. San Francisco Bay Blues 00:00 Tools
Borwnskin Gal I Got My Eyes On You 00:00 Tools
San_Francisco_Bay_Blues-03-Morning_Blues 00:00 Tools
Leavin' Memphis Frisco Bound 00:00 Tools
Jazz_Folk_Songs_Spirituals_Blues-11-Hesitation_Blues 00:00 Tools
San Francisco Bay Blues - Bonus Track 00:00 Tools
Stay 00:00 Tools
Brownskin Girl I've Got My Eye On You 00:00 Tools
I Want A Girl Just Like The Girl That Married Dear Old Dad 00:00 Tools
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Jesse Fuller (March 12, 1896 – January 29, 1976) was an American blues, "one-man band", musician, best known for his song "San Francisco Bay Blues". Fuller was born in Jonesboro, Georgia, near Atlanta. He was sent by his mother to live with foster parents when he was a young child, in a rural setting where he was badly mistreated. Growing up, he worked a multitude of jobs: grazing cows for ten cents a day, working in a barrel factory, a broom factory, a rock quarry, on a railroad and a streetcar company, shining shoes, and even peddling hand-carved wooden snakes. He came west and in the 1920s worked briefly as a film extra in The Thief of Bagdad and East of Suez. Eventually he settled in Oakland, California, across the bay from San Francisco, where he worked for the Southern Pacific railroad. During World War II, he worked as a shipyard welder, but when the war ended he found it increasingly difficult to find work. Around the early 1950s, Fuller's thoughts turned toward the possibility of making a living playing music. Up to this point, Fuller had never worked professionally as a musician, but had certainly been exposed to music, and had learned to play guitar and picked up quite a number of songs: country blues, work songs, ballads, spirituals and instrumentals. And he had carried his guitar with him and played for money by passing the hat. When he decided to try to work as a professional, he found it hard to find other musicians to work with: thus his one-man band act was born. Starting locally, in clubs and bars in San Francisco and across the bay in Oakland and Berkeley, Fuller became more widely known when he performed on television in both the Bay Area and Los Angeles, and in 1958 his recording career started with his first album on the Good Time Jazz record label. Fuller's instruments included 12-string guitar, harmonica, kazoo, cymbal (high-hat) and fotdella, several of which could be played simultaneously, particularly with the use of a head-piece to hold the harmonica and kazoo, often at the same time. Much later, the Grateful Dead covered a few of Fuller's songs, including "The Monkey and the Engineer" and "Beat It on Down the Line". Others who have covered his work include Hot Tuna, Peter, Paul and Mary, Glenn Yarbrough, Eric Clapton, Paul McCartney, and Bob Dylan, on his debut in 1962. The fotdella The fotdella was a musical instrument of Fuller's own creation and construction. As a one-man band, the problem was how to supply a more substantial accompaniment than the typical high-hat (cymbal) or bass drum used by street musicians. Fuller's solution was the fotdella. It was a foot-operated percussion bass, consisting of a large upright wood box, shaped like the top of a double bass. Attached to a short neck at the top of this box were six bass strings, stretched over the body. And finally, there was the means to play those strings: six foot pedals, each connected to a padded hammer which struck the string, in a homemade wooden contraption. The six notes of the fotdella allowed him to play a bass line in several keys, though he occasionally would play without it if a song exceeded its limited range. The name was coined by his wife, who took to calling the instrument a "foot-diller" (as in a "killer-diller" instrument played with the foot), which was shortened to fotdella. Fuller died in January 1976 in Oakland, California, from heart disease. He was 79 years of age. He was interred at Evergreen Cemetery in Oakland. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.