Trackimage | Playbut | Trackname | Playbut | Trackname |
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1161724 | Play | San Francisco Bay Blues | 00:00 Tools | |
1161732 | Play | Cincinnati Blues | 00:00 Tools | |
1161750 | Play | Leavin' Memphis, Frisco Bound | 00:00 Tools | |
1161735 | Play | You Can't Keep A Good Man Down | 00:00 Tools | |
1161726 | Play | Stackolee | 00:00 Tools | |
1161731 | Play | Jesse's New Midnight Special | 00:00 Tools | |
1161739 | Play | Crazy About a Woman | 00:00 Tools | |
1161728 | Play | John Henry | 00:00 Tools | |
1161725 | Play | Move On Down The Line | 00:00 Tools | |
1161743 | Play | Stranger Blues | 00:00 Tools | |
1161757 | Play | Hark From The Tomb | 00:00 Tools | |
1161727 | Play | Stealing | 00:00 Tools | |
1161753 | Play | Amazing Grace | 00:00 Tools | |
1161776 | Play | You're No Good | 00:00 Tools | |
1161748 | Play | I Got a Mind to Ramble | 00:00 Tools | |
1161772 | Play | Buck and Wing | 00:00 Tools | |
1161741 | Play | Morning Blues | 00:00 Tools | |
1161745 | Play | Little Black Train | 00:00 Tools | |
1161744 | Play | Stagolee | 00:00 Tools | |
1161738 | Play | Midnight Cold | 00:00 Tools | |
1161751 | Play | Key To The Highway | 00:00 Tools | |
1161737 | Play | Red River Blues | 00:00 Tools | |
1161730 | Play | Take This Hammer - Instrumental | 00:00 Tools | |
1161729 | Play | Ninety Nine Years And One Dark Day | 00:00 Tools | |
1161746 | Play | Hump In My Back | 00:00 Tools | |
1161752 | Play | Whoa Mule | 00:00 Tools | |
1161817 | Play | Pretty Little Girl Walkin' Down The Street | 00:00 Tools | |
1161763 | Play | Memphis Boogie | 00:00 Tools | |
1161749 | Play | Stagolee - Instrumental | 00:00 Tools | |
1161747 | Play | How Long Blues | 00:00 Tools | |
1161768 | Play | Where Could I Go but to the Lord | 00:00 Tools | |
1161733 | Play | Animal Fair | 00:00 Tools | |
1161762 | Play | Stealin' Back to My Old Time Used to Be | 00:00 Tools | |
1161765 | Play | Fingerbuster - Instrumental | 00:00 Tools | |
1161759 | Play | Rockin' Boogie | 00:00 Tools | |
1161767 | Play | Tickling The Strings | 00:00 Tools | |
1161804 | Play | Brownskin Girl (I've Got My Eye on You) | 00:00 Tools | |
1161756 | Play | Hump In Your Back | 00:00 Tools | |
1161821 | Play | I Want A Girl (Just Like The Girl That Married Dear Old Dad) | 00:00 Tools | |
1161778 | Play | Beale Street Blues | 00:00 Tools | |
1161809 | Play | The Monkey and the Engineer | 00:00 Tools | |
1161740 | Play | Lining Up The Track | 00:00 Tools | |
1161734 | Play | Railroad Worksong | 00:00 Tools | |
1161758 | Play | 99 Years | 00:00 Tools | |
1161736 | Play | Sleeping In The Midnight Cold | 00:00 Tools | |
1161771 | Play | Hesitation Blues - Instrumental | 00:00 Tools | |
1161775 | Play | Everybody Works At My House But My Old Man | 00:00 Tools | |
1161777 | Play | Let Me Hold You In My Arms Tonight | 00:00 Tools | |
1161761 | Play | I Double Double Do Love You | 00:00 Tools | |
1161760 | Play | Tiger Rag - Instrumental | 00:00 Tools | |
1161793 | Play | Where Could I Go To But The Lord | 00:00 Tools | |
1161791 | Play | Linin' Track - Instrumental | 00:00 Tools | |
1161787 | Play | Fables Aren't Nothing But Doggone Lies | 00:00 Tools | |
1161766 | Play | Trouble If I Don't Use My Head | 00:00 Tools | |
1161826 | Play | Animal Farm | 00:00 Tools | |
1161792 | Play | Memphis Boogie - Instrumental | 00:00 Tools | |
1161823 | Play | Brother Lowdown | 00:00 Tools | |
1161801 | Play | Old Man Mose | 00:00 Tools | |
1161802 | Play | I've Been So Doggone Lonesome | 00:00 Tools | |
47445503 | Play | "Guitar Lesson" | 00:00 Tools | |
1161820 | Play | Crazy Waltz | 00:00 Tools | |
1161773 | Play | Finger Twister | 00:00 Tools | |
1161816 | Play | Take This Hammer | 00:00 Tools | |
1161764 | Play | 99 Years - Instrumental | 00:00 Tools | |
1161781 | Play | I'm Going To Meet My Loving Mother - Instrumental | 00:00 Tools | |
1161770 | Play | Raise A Ruckus - Instrumental | 00:00 Tools | |
1161785 | Play | Got A Date At Half Past Eight | 00:00 Tools | |
1161803 | Play | Brownskin Gal (I've Got My Eyes On You) | 00:00 Tools | |
1161784 | Play | The Dozens | 00:00 Tools | |
1161769 | Play | Hesitation Blues | 00:00 Tools | |
1161779 | Play | Flavor In My Cream | 00:00 Tools | |
1161814 | Play | By And By - Instrumental | 00:00 Tools | |
1161806 | Play | Just Like A Ship On The Deep Blue Sea | 00:00 Tools | |
1161774 | Play | Tiger Rag | 00:00 Tools | |
1161742 | Play | Midnight Special | 00:00 Tools | |
1161755 | Play | Railroad Blues | 00:00 Tools | |
1161790 | Play | Motherless Children | 00:00 Tools | |
1161833 | Play | Runnin' Wild | 00:00 Tools | |
1161780 | Play | Fingerbuster | 00:00 Tools | |
1161798 | Play | Beat It On Down the Line | 00:00 Tools | |
1161754 | Play | Hanging 'Round A Skin Game | 00:00 Tools | |
1161799 | Play | As Long As I Can Feel The Spirit | 00:00 Tools | |
1161800 | Play | Just A Closer Walk With Thee | 00:00 Tools | |
1161782 | Play | By and By | 00:00 Tools | |
1161795 | Play | New Corrine | 00:00 Tools | |
1161827 | Play | Take It Slow and Easy | 00:00 Tools | |
1161783 | Play | Raise a Ruckus | 00:00 Tools | |
1161812 | Play | Footdella Stomp | 00:00 Tools | |
1161808 | Play | I'm Going To Sit Down At The Welcome Table | 00:00 Tools | |
1161797 | Play | Preacher Lowdown | 00:00 Tools | |
1161813 | Play | Linin' Track | 00:00 Tools | |
1161819 | Play | Hey, Hey | 00:00 Tools | |
1161789 | Play | Together Let Us Live | 00:00 Tools | |
1161831 | Play | The Way You Treat Me | 00:00 Tools | |
1161810 | Play | I'm Going to Meet My Loving Mother | 00:00 Tools | |
1161818 | Play | Down Home Waltz | 00:00 Tools | |
1161834 | Play | Guitar Blues | 00:00 Tools | |
1161794 | Play | Stranger's Blues | 00:00 Tools | |
1161805 | Play | Cincinnati Bules | 00:00 Tools | |
47445504 | Play | In That Great Land | 00:00 Tools | |
47445505 | Play | Memphis Boogie (Instrumental) | 00:00 Tools | |
1161837 | Play | Bill Bailey | 00:00 Tools | |
1161815 | Play | Bill Bailey Won't You Please Come Home | 00:00 Tools | |
1161835 | Play | Brownskin Gal I Got My Eyes On You | 00:00 Tools | |
1161796 | Play | Brownskin Girl | 00:00 Tools | |
1161824 | Play | Screaming And Crying | 00:00 Tools | |
1161811 | Play | What Did I Do To Be So Black and Blue? | 00:00 Tools | |
1161825 | Play | San Fran Bay Blues | 00:00 Tools | |
1161788 | Play | Monkey and the Engineer | 00:00 Tools | |
1161897 | Play | Tiger Rag (Instrumental) | 00:00 Tools | |
1161845 | Play | San Francisco Bay Bay Blues | 00:00 Tools | |
47445506 | Play | Jesse Fuller - San Francisco Bay Blues | 03:37 Tools | |
1161846 | Play | Running Wild | 00:00 Tools | |
1161842 | Play | Buck Dancer's Jump | 00:00 Tools | |
47445513 | Play | Mr. Engineer | 00:00 Tools | |
47445508 | Play | I Love My Baby | 00:00 Tools | |
1161838 | Play | Stagolee (Instrumental) | 00:00 Tools | |
1161822 | Play | Take This Hammer (Instrumental) | 00:00 Tools | |
47445509 | Play | Meet My Loving Mother | 00:00 Tools | |
47445511 | Play | Hanging Around A Skin Game | 00:00 Tools | |
47445507 | Play | Hesitation Blues (Instrumental) | 00:00 Tools | |
1161830 | Play | Traditional / In That Great Land | 00:00 Tools | |
1161891 | Play | 99 Years (Instrumental) | 00:00 Tools | |
47445510 | Play | Tune (Creole Love Call) | 00:00 Tools | |
1161867 | Play | Brother Low Down | 00:00 Tools | |
1161893 | Play | Fingerbuster (Instrumental) | 00:00 Tools | |
47445512 | Play | Raise A Ruckus (Instrumental) | 00:00 Tools | |
1161840 | Play | Linin' Track (Instrumental) | 00:00 Tools | |
47445519 | Play | Bye And Bye | 00:00 Tools | |
1161848 | Play | Jazz_Folk_Songs_Spirituals_Blues-02-Linin_Track | 00:00 Tools | |
47445515 | Play | Beale Street | 00:00 Tools | |
47445514 | Play | By And By (Instrumental) | 00:00 Tools | |
47445516 | Play | San Francisco Bay Blues (Bonus Track) | 00:00 Tools | |
47445518 | Play | Linin Track | 00:00 Tools | |
47445521 | Play | Crazy 'Bout A Woman | 00:00 Tools | |
1161896 | Play | Stealin Back To My Old Time Used To Be | 00:00 Tools | |
47445517 | Play | I´m Going To Meet My Loving Mother | 00:00 Tools | |
1161876 | Play | I4m Going To Meet My Loving Mother | 00:00 Tools | |
1161881 | Play | I'm Going To Meet My Loving Mother (Instrumental) | 00:00 Tools | |
1161882 | Play | San_Francisco_Bay_Blues-01-San_Francisco_Bay_Blues | 00:00 Tools | |
47445525 | Play | Hesitatin' Blues | 00:00 Tools | |
47445526 | Play | Going Back To My Old Used To Be | 00:00 Tools | |
1161866 | Play | Jazz_Folk_Songs_Spirituals_Blues-04-Tiger_Rag | 00:00 Tools | |
1161885 | Play | Jazz_Folk_Songs_Spirituals_Blues-06-Raise_A_Ruckus | 00:00 Tools | |
1161865 | Play | Jazz_Folk_Songs_Spirituals_Blues-05-Memphis_Boogie | 00:00 Tools | |
47445522 | Play | Leavin Memphis, Frisco bound | 00:00 Tools | |
1161898 | Play | Jazz_Folk_Songs_Spirituals_Blues-07-By_And_By | 00:00 Tools | |
47445523 | Play | Bill Bailey, Won't You Please Come Home | 00:00 Tools | |
47445520 | Play | Finger Buster | 00:00 Tools | |
1161884 | Play | 'Guitar Lesson' | 00:00 Tools | |
1161859 | Play | Jazz_Folk_Songs_Spirituals_Blues-01-Take_This_Hammer | 00:00 Tools | |
1161880 | Play | Jazz_Folk_Songs_Spirituals_Blues-03-I_m_Going_To_Meet_My_Loving_Mother | 00:00 Tools | |
1161873 | Play | Jazz_Folk_Songs_Spirituals_Blues-09-Stagolee | 00:00 Tools | |
1161850 | Play | Jazz_Folk_Songs_Spirituals_Blues-08-Fingerbuster | 00:00 Tools | |
47445524 | Play | 08. San Francisco Bay Blues | 00:00 Tools | |
1161889 | Play | Borwnskin Gal I Got My Eyes On You | 00:00 Tools | |
1161879 | Play | San_Francisco_Bay_Blues-03-Morning_Blues | 00:00 Tools | |
1161839 | Play | Leavin' Memphis Frisco Bound | 00:00 Tools | |
1161887 | Play | Jazz_Folk_Songs_Spirituals_Blues-11-Hesitation_Blues | 00:00 Tools | |
86825575 | Play | San Francisco Bay Blues - Bonus Track | 00:00 Tools | |
86825576 | Play | Stay | 00:00 Tools | |
47445527 | Play | Brownskin Girl I've Got My Eye On You | 00:00 Tools | |
88924084 | Play | I Want A Girl Just Like The Girl That Married Dear Old Dad | 00:00 Tools |
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.