IM A RATTLESNAKIN DADDY (1935) by Blind Boy Fuller

This song was recorded in New York in 1935 by Blind Boy Fuller (19071941), and was amongst his first recordings. Fuller was one of the most popular of the recorded Piedmont blues artists with rural Black Americans, a group that also included Blind Blake, Josh White, and Buddy Moss. Blind Boy Fuller was also an incredible fingerpicking guitar player (apparently influenced by Blind Blake and Rev Gary Davis), as well as being a great singer. He would rip notes from his resonator guitar, fingerpicking