Level: 2/3
Tuning: Open D

Rev. Gary Davis use to tell the story of first meeting Blind Boy Fuller. Fuller could only play slide and in Open D tuning. Rev. Davis gave Fuller a few lessons and would remark that if Fuller had stayed with him longer he would have turned out good! Over the next 6 years Blind Boy Fuller recorded over 120 sides, of which only two featured his slide playing. Of the recorded Piedmont blues artists, a group that includes Blind Blake, Josh White, and Buddy Moss, Fuller was one of the most popular with rural African Americans. "Homesick and Lonesome Blues" was probably the tune that Rev. Davis first heard from Fuller. It is played in an Open D tuning.