Time: 66:38
Size: 152.6 MB
Styles: Country blues, Acoustic blues
Year: 1991
Art: Front
[5:14] 1. Leavin' Memphis, Frisco Bound
[2:41] 2. Got A Date At Half Past Eight
[3:12] 3. Hump In My Back
[2:47] 4. Flavor In My Cream
[2:41] 5. Finger Twister
[2:13] 6. Just Like A Ship On The Deep Blue Sea
[5:07] 7. Cincinnati Bules
[2:34] 8. Just A Closer Walk With Thee
[3:04] 9. Motherless Children
[1:48] 10. Amazing Grace
[3:17] 11. Hark From The Tomb
[2:20] 12. As Long As I Can Feel The Spirit
[2:59] 13. I'm Going To Sit Down At The Welcome Table
[2:02] 14. Together Let Us Live
[2:51] 15. Memphis Boogie
[2:31] 16. Footdella Stomp
[3:03] 17. Crazy About A Woman
[3:13] 18. 99 Years
[4:31] 19. Stranger's Blues
[2:34] 20. Bill Bailey Won't You Please Come Home
[2:08] 21. Preacher Lowdown
[3:36] 22. San Francisco Bay Blues
Jesse `Lone Cat’ Fuller was a Bay Area folk & blues singer who died in 1976. In his long career he hoboed acted in movies sang on the street shined shoes and owned a hot dog stand at a movie studio. He’s best remembered though as the author of `San Francisco Bay Blues’ and for his unusual performance as a one-man band playing blues spirituals children’s songs railroad songs waltzes and jazz. He invented the ingenious `footdella’ to play bass set up washboards cymbals kazoos and harmonicas that along with his 12-string accompanied him in his one man show. All these are demonstrated on the reissue of 18 favorites plus four previously unreleased cuts from 1955 and six from 1962. It’s an historic album full of his fun music and unique style.
Jesse Fuller (1896-1976) `The Lone Cat’ was a remarkably expressive singer and fine 12-string guitar player. A versatile entertainer Jesse usually performed as a `one man band’ and drew on most strands of his rich African-American folk tradition. Born and raised in Georgia he hoboed all over the country singing and working various jobs until he settled in Oakland Ca. His best known composition San Francisco Bay Blues is included in this collection along with some haunting slide guitar solos. All of ARH LP 2009 plus several previously unissued cuts from that same studio session in 1955 plus several selections recorded at Cornell University in 1962.
Jesse Fuller (1896-1976) `The Lone Cat’ was a remarkably expressive singer and fine 12-string guitar player. A versatile entertainer Jesse usually performed as a `one man band’ and drew on most strands of his rich African-American folk tradition. Born and raised in Georgia he hoboed all over the country singing and working various jobs until he settled in Oakland Ca. His best known composition San Francisco Bay Blues is included in this collection along with some haunting slide guitar solos. All of ARH LP 2009 plus several previously unissued cuts from that same studio session in 1955 plus several selections recorded at Cornell University in 1962.
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