Blind Boy Fuller (born Fulton Allen) (July 10, 1907http://facstaff.unca.edu/sinclair/piedmontblues/fuller.html - February 13, 1941) was an American blues guitarist and vocalist. He was one of the most popular of the Piedmont blues artists that also included Reverend Gary Davis, Blind Willie McTell and Blind Blake. Life and career Fulton Allen was born in Wadesboro, North Carolina, one of a family of 10 children, but after his mother's death 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 young and worked as a labourer, but began to lose his eyesight in his mid-teens. According to researcher Bruce Bastin, "While he was living in Rockingham he began to have trouble with his eyes. He went to see a doctor in Charlotte who al