Jesse Fuller - John Henry

[@MonotoneCreeper]

17 strings, harmonica, kazoo, hi hat and still remembering the lyrics and singing at the same time. What an amazing chap.

[@iansing5278]

And 71yrs old, an amazing chap.

[@beverlierobertson]

had the privilege of meeting Jesse Fuller at the Village corner Club in Toronto in the very early 60s. I played 12-string & he showed me how to play San Francisco blues in the tune up room! I think he got a kick out of this young girl who played 12.

[@chicosuman]

This can change lives

[@Razzgospel]

I had the great pleasure of hearing Jesse in New York City in the early sixties. Never forgot him.

[@thendrjazz]

Saw him at the Club 47 in Cambridge, MA in the mid 1960s, great experience.

[@canberra3]

When Jessie was setting up to play at Crawley Technical College in Sussex on his English tour in the mid-60's, he'd lost his foot operated cymbal in transit. He went off around the back of the college to find a substitute & came back with a coal shovel which he placed to his left on the floor. He then proceeded to take off his left shoe & sock & asked if anyone had a penny, this he put between two toes & started tapping out the beat on the shovel. It was a dream evening of virtuoso one-man-band blues playing that no-one has matched since.

[@brianhackert8513]

amazing story!

[@Adibarum]

The Ultimate one man Band..what a performer

[@davevendley9936]

never given enough credit. jesse fuller is a special artist

[@professorbonghair3111]

That's the gospel, brother.

[@connect741]

The roots of rock and roll - fantastic

[@GunDogSlim]

What a band!

[@LatrellMitchell-k1z]

I love this blues music 🎶 sound so good in the night time and i wish i can playing blues rock like this.

[@mightyturkeyneck1349]

I love how that rig he's got around his neck filters his vocals and puts a wee bit of natural distortion on them. And is that a freaking KAZOO on there alongside the harmonica? Wild, wacky stuff.

[@mlwsf]

It also scoops the mids eq wise, narrows the bandwidth as it were.

[@jimholmes341]

😊This is incredible!!

[@nelsonx5326]

This band rocks!

[@TheLUCKYFEATHER]

Thank you @folkseattle for uploading those videos. I'm truly grateful. Merci

[@autisticusmaximus2673]

Second song is beautiful

[@chrisbecker7771]

i know what you mean

[@Craigory2022]

Set List: John Henry Red River Blues San Francisco Bay Blues

[@hughsnuts7318]

Shaky Graves owes this man. Both brilliant musicians

[@johnieallen6115]

One of best I ever heard thanks for posting.

[@kaecake9575]

The Blues is nothing but a good man feeling bad✨

[@a.t.e.g.produccionnissa3464]

Great Jesse ! L'Antenat dau Blues Nissart !!! Qué Regal ! Thanks

[@mississippibluestravellers5440]

Good video. Thanks for posting this one.

[@TheBurlGrey]

i'll pay money for the san francisco blues. thank you Jesse Fuller!

[@robertbrass6255]

fuck thats it i want a set up like his

[@toomanycatsful]

Love it! Quite an amazing invention.

[@alessandrospanu5605]

Amazing!!!!!!

[@boop2610]

En la actualidad es difícil encontrar músicos como Jesse Fuller

[@mcgold2008]

I miss my Uncle.

[@KingfisherLtd]

Using switchblade as a slide is a sign of being a blues badass.

[@itsallaroundyou7085]

Yeah they didn't manufacture slides til the 70s, nor glass cutters in the dollar store lol. So really more guys then we think Were probably using random objects

[@willietarkington1628]

Broken bottle neck was a popular one.

[@stevenkarnisky411]

Well, there were no Dollar Stores back then, but you could certainly buy a glass cutter. You could also cut a length of pipe with a saw. We weren't exactly living in the Stone Age in the seventies!

[@KingfisherLtd]

And there was this kerosene glass cutting method

[@MisterRlGHT]

Duane Allman used a glass medicine bottle. Johnny Winter used a Craftsman socket from the hardware section at Sears.

[@simaginfan]

Interesting how close fullers 'john henry' is to Terry and Magee's version, compared to the many other versions around. Also there is a line through to Woodie Guthrie in there too. And many of the musical lines from San Francisco Blues are also used in 'She's no Good Fuller was unique. Thanks for the great posting.

[@josephkirby305]

@Mark Landgraf, I only recently discovered him, but what I've seen in other places he typically used an old pocket knife as a slide. I can't see it all that well in this video, but I'd say that's what it looks like.

[@iansing5278]

That's a pocketknife...

[@GunDogSlim]

This is Awesome!

[@raymondville]

this guy was a guitar monster !

[@stevejaubert2892]

Would be a perfect song metaphor for "The Rain of Terror" by Frank Manley from Best of the South : from ten years of New stories from the South. The reality we get caught in and the future just keeps rolling on along seems inevitable and can drive us crazy if we are not careful.

[@StefanWirz]

Jesse Fuller discography at www.wirz.de/music/fuller.htm

[@popeye9475]

Mr Smooth and Easy...

[@leonportelance9613]

I really liked Hudie Leadbetter's 'John Henry'; This Jesse Fuller version is hmm Gospel for eternity.

[@KaluNazi]

Jesse Fuller ansemble!

[@pikeywyatt]

regrets i mist him when he came to the uk early 1960s.

[@MajesticMage]

This sounds like the night

[@加國哲二]

❣️👍

[@micoveliki8729]

What tuning is he using open d??

[@Robert-ch8hf]

Is there a tab for this.......?

[@nevillegriffiths4395]

its good Jesse

[@privatesnowball3032]

"Give me a cool drink of water before I die"

[@goodun6081]

Awesome and amazing! By the way, I have heard bassist Colin Hodgkinson, probably best known for playing with Alvin Lee and Ten Years After, do a solo bass guitar version of "Walking with my Baby down by the San Francisco Bay". You can find it on KZbin.

[@beezusondabeats8504]

His vocals remind me of charley Patton

[@pptunes]

12 string and a switchblade.......style!!

[@royprice9969]

Second song not Red River Blues?

[@brianhackert8513]

it's not the common version that many people do, and i can't find out anything about this one. it has a great groove.

[@BuzzWreck61]

The phrasing, the “groove” itself, even the verse structure points squarely back to Jimmie Rodgers....if not as the creator, then certainly the one who brought it to the common consciousness of the music world.

[@kevinbean8619]

Was this recorded in Seattle?

[@larryjohnson4795]

Kevin Bean Washington Dc,.....

[@rockancestor]

step aside, Dylan

[@dupreeblues4744]

Lone Cat !

[@marklandgraf1630]

Anyone know what kind of "slider" Jesse's using on "John Henry"?.

[@tonyyarbray]

the one in this video is just a pocket knife

[@itsallaroundyou7085]

Seems like an awful lot to haul around when the public was more then satisfied with a man and a guitar

[@bradmullins9056]

Is that GOD?

[@Sledgehammers_Nail]

Huge hands. Right hand looks like a baseball glove 😂