Truckin' My Blues Away

by Blind Boy Fuller

Truckin' My Blues Away cover art
  • Type: Compilation
  • Released: 1 January 1978
  • Label: Yazoo
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 40:03
  • Community rating: 4.15/5 from 1 rating

Album Notes & Community Reviews

'Truckin' My Blues Away' gathers fourteen sides Blind Boy Fuller recorded between 1936 and 1939, the Durham singer and guitarist's most productive years. The reissue pairs cover art by R. Crumb with notes by Steve Calt, part of the catalogue that returned the Piedmont blues tradition to print.

Genres

Descriptors: soulful, bluesy, acoustic, storytelling, rhythmic

Tracklist

  1. Truckin' My Blues Away (3:05)
  2. Untrue Blues (2:50)
  3. Homesick And Lonesome Blues (3:07)
  4. You Never Can Tell (2:54)
  5. Mamie (2:45)
  6. Jivin' Woman Blues (2:32)
  7. Funny Feeling Blues (2:50)
  8. I Crave My Pigmeat (2:46)
  9. Meat Shakin' Woman (2:42)
  10. Walking My Troubles Away (2:53)
  11. Painful Hearted Man (2:47)
  12. Corrine What Makes You Treat Me So ? (2:57)
  13. Sweet Honey Hole (2:45)
  14. Weeping Willow (3:10)

Credits

  • Blind Boy Fuller - primary artist, guitar, voice
  • Nick Perls - producer, mastered by
  • Robert Crumb - artwork
  • Stephen Calt - liner notes [notes]

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