Level: 2/3
Tuning: Standard

Blind Boy Fuller was born in 1907. He was one of the most popular of the recorded Piedmont blues artists that also included Josh White, Blind Gary Davis and Buddy Moss. He helped shape the 1930s blues scene. Unlike many blues artists, Blind Boy Fuller can be completely engaging as both a party-oriented performer and a somber bluesman. 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.

"I Crave My Pigmeat" was recorded in 1939 with Bull City Red playing washboard behind Fuller's ragtime blues picking. Fuller recorded many similar songs with the same ragtime progression but with different lyrics. This is an arrangement you must have in your repertoire. It is great to play and sing this as a soloist or jamming with friends. It is played in the key of and the arrangement taught features Fuller's playing note for note.