Blues guitarist Fulton Allen – better known as Blind Boy Fuller – was born on
July 10, 1904 (or 1907) in Wadesboro, North Carolina. Fuller, a prolific
guitarist and vocalist, was one of the most popular of the recorded Piedmont
(AKA East Coast or Southeastern) blues artists. He is best-known for his
distinctive guitar playing and for his ‘hokum’ (humorous songs usually laced
with sexual innuendoes) recordings such as "I Want Some of Your Pie", “Get Your
Ya Yas Out” (later used for a Rolling Stones live album title), "Truckin' My
Blues Away" (the origin of the phrase ‘keep on truc...