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Yeah, yeah. Mhm. Man, I had the hardest time here, man. You sometimes a good thing. But I'm gonna cry and I can't help myself. I don't know. I just made it in a hot car. Jessy Fuller has lived hard times, tempered with lots of humor for

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almost eight decades. Like most folks, Jesse has used his hands for most of his life to make a living for himself and his family. A familiarity with music and with musical instruments came early in life for jesse. But that was soon replaced by the familiar necessity

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of earning a living. Jessie's hands have been applied to a dozen jobs making barrels working the railroad, laboring on construction For the past 40 years, Jessie's home has been in Oakland and for perhaps half that time music has occupied a larger and larger portion of his

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life. Jesse has passed the point. Most folks consider a retirement age yet no one reminds him of that fact. These days, when Jessie's hands are not busy with life's labors, they are busy producing one of life's pleasures. Jessie

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Fuller's familiarity with guitars and with harmonicas is more than just passing. He says he picked up both instruments years ago, Long before he learned to labor with his hands, jesse admits he let those skills Reston used for decades, but in recent years he has found more

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than ample time to polish a musical style. That sounds unique. Until a few years ago, Jesse managed to tap dance as he sang and played the guitar today. His feet are busy with percussion with a symbol and with a Fidelia. Fidelia almost defies description. Yet it

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is an essential part of the jessy fuller sound. The one man band, jessy fuller has come a long ways from the days of strumming and dancing. He brought with him a style with roots in the turn of the century And even his guitar today is a

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little old fashioned. You can't pick a 12 string hardly there. You've got the strip Like I wouldn't do that good if you had 12 string to play it. You couldn't do as good as you do because you're used

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to playing now I can already play a six myself. Now now picking one of these do anything. Mhm mhm Right. You don't need to get if you played will never sound pretty. I got to want to keep it like a dog. She drove me

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upstairs and got the deep in love. Got tired of sleeping in the law. I went downstairs started dog from now I don't recently the Oakland Museum offered jessy fuller a concert setting. A standing room only crowd expected to watch jesse put it all together and he

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did. I work for you both night and day. Taking my money in your toy. You got mad before the ball. Yeah. Hot showers you could not do. And the grounds grounds could my dude sitting in the midnight. Yeah, awake for you. Night

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and day. Taking my money and just going in the way you got mad because of all y'all come to holland shot you put my dude in the ground so does the ground does living into the night. Mm I don't like the first thing I don't like

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to fight. Got a woman, don't treat me right out of talking, Talking late at night when you come home you want to start to put my dude from the ground and put my dude the ground for my dough Stephen at midnight. Mm

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hmm. Walking down to doing a lot of the moon. Me and my guitar to him in the tomb. Woman in the low she done left home. I ain't gonna live in this wood along with my dude. The ground was now dude the ground do even in

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the cycle. Yeah, go ahead. I play your nose long and then I'm going to tell you the history of my life. Old alone kid had a hard time in this world. Won't take nothing to make me cry cry because I

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entered a hard time. I got an uncle though boy, he cried so much. He's crossed out the tears run down his suspenders behind Lord Will Ally mhm No kid. Mm This thing is called Fidelia. That's what I named it. I name it. I named it foot

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and my wife named it Della Uh huh. There you buy her to bob Dylan. Have you? He got his idea for me playing this outfit. I saw him in Chicago over 78 years ago at the University of Chicago and bob Dylan got got him a harmonica

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but he's good. Who drug you don't live by this, but he wouldn't got married. You know what his wife's name? Matt Dillon. Now here's a song our route. You got a 20 years ago. Believe it or not after san Francisco Bay blues. Mhm. Got

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the fluid from a baby. Let me mother someone that will be ocean not ain't going to far away. Give me the treaty. So bad with the best girl I ever ever had. What you said goodbye said like the river cry. I want to get out and

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I've got a girl got allowed to die so don't come like I think I'm gonna lose my online. They will come back to stay going to spit into the brand new day walking. We will be done by the san Francisco b Sit

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down, look into my back door one. It was the way to go. The woman of the creative about you don't want me no more. I think I'll take a freight train because really blue Right all the way to nine. Thank you. Don't live here while in

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another city it's about to go and say sounds like a hood, my baby. The rest of you used to call my name. They were coming back to stay put another brand new day walking with my baby down. What is never just be. Mhm good

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big okay. My mother lived. She's always giving them away to people. See, I don't know why she do that. Maybe I was so mean, but I always tried to treat her right when she went too far

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one time and have a spell. I grabbed all of it and I wasn't big enough to hold up to good and she fell on top of me and it hit me pretty bad. I guess that's my feature so big in my hands. I don't want to

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weigh about 138 lbs. And I got to see that way. My shoes I wear is about 11.5. My feet so big. I had to back up to knock on the door sometimes. Yeah. Mr Okay. Mhm. We got in mind by faithful knocking on my door to

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me. How give me how long? Well I have to read mm. Here's attention. Target is a woman bring the entertainment. Uh then we all know tonight long while I'll Yeah. Mhm. Here's attention stocking. Here's a shoot here to tell you ones in their

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attitude. La La Delano. How long will I have to Hello? I want to talk. How long, how long will I have to? Yeah, mm, mm, mm hmm. Mhm. Uh huh. Mhm.

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Yeah, the thing is getting a little bit better, but it takes a long time boy, when your fingers is out of order. You can't have it like you can do a lot of front in this way. I don't call that playing or that I don't, that's

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led business style. I don't like those. I don't like that friend and no guitar. I'm afraid I'm teaching my little boy here, my little grandson how to thrill do this Hey. Uh huh. I just got to anybody that's, that's, you can play that an E open

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E. I was in to see the Baghdad myself. You know the picture called the caesar Baghdad? I was in that picture. Me and a fellow named Eagle Eye. That's the indian him. Don't like black man really good. I played in the bag when the rug flew

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up. You had a hey, go ahead. If you ever see that over the television. If you look real close when the royal flying, you'll see us to fill it standing where it does something. Uh huh. There's a nice little crunchy water minor like. Mhm

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Yeah, mm, mm hmm, mm Yeah. Stop. Yeah, there's old fashioned blues. Mhm. All my life I've been programming. Oh my life. I've been a driving

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man, living on the long doing the birthday key, check my trunk. Ship it down to Tennessee. I got my trunk, ship it down to Tennessee. Well you never find another good man like me. Very good looking woman. I couldn't get over my mind. Get off my

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mind says, I don't like your kind tradition has it that blues come from hard times. If that's true, then jesse fuller is as authentic a blues singer as any other. Yet Jesse greets the blues of life with a smile and that's probably

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what puts the sparkle in his blues. I woke up this morning, I had to pawn my shoe you got this morning. I had to pawn my shoe. You know, it wasn't nothing but the same old blue. They don't get no better. Gonna have to write a

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letter back home. They don't get no better than the other thing I don't get No, I think I have to carry on.