BLUES-78-BLIND BOY FULLER "WALKING & LOOKING BLUES" 1937 DECCA 7899 VG
Sold Date:
April 29, 2017
Start Date:
April 22, 2017
Final Price:
$132.50
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RARE-COUNTRY BLUES
BLIND BOY FULLER "WALKING AND LOOKING BLUES / WORKING MAN BLUES"
VG condition-PLAYS GREAT with scuffs/scratches/wear-MUSIC REMAINS LOUD & STRONG WITH SURFACE NOISE
Decca Label exec Mayo Williams came to Durham and auditioned Fuller and two other local blues artists, brothers Richard and Welly Trice. All three were sent to New York City. On July 12 and 14, Fuller cut a dozen solo sides. (On July 13, the Trice brothers recorded a half-dozen songs.) Initially, two Blind Boy Fuller 78s were released, the sonically superior “If You See My Pigmeat”/“Why Don’t My Baby Write to Me” and “Weeping Willow”/“Corrine What Makes You Treat Me So.” As far as I know, “If You See My Pigmeat” is the first Blind Boy Fuller 78 to give him songwriting credit on the label. Manager J.B. Long, who was not pleased to see his client moonlighting with another label, threatened Decca with a lawsuit. These initial Blind Boy Fuller Decca 78s were quickly pulled from circulation and today are among the rarest Blind Boy Fuller 78s; the numbers on the first pressings, respectively, are 7330 and 7331. After Fuller’s death, Decca released all of the songs from the session, assigning new numbers to the withdrawn 78s.
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