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Pistol Slapper Blues (Fuller) Recorded: New York City, April 05, 1938 Blind Boy Fuller (vcl) (g), Sonny Terry (h) Blind Boy Fuller (born Fulton Allen) (July 10, 19071 February 13, 1941) was an American blues guitarist and vocalist. He 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. Fulton Allen was born in Wadesboro, North Carolina to Calvin Allen and Mary Jane Walker. He was one of a family of 10 children, but after his mother s death he moved with his father to Rockingham. As a boy he learned to play the guitar and also learned from older singers the field hollers, country rags, and traditional songs and blues popular in poor, rural areas. He married Cora Allen young and worked as a labourer, but began to lose his eyesight in his midteens. According to researcher Bruce Bastin, While he was living in Rockingham he began to have trouble