Level: 2/3
Tuning: Standard

Recorded in 1936 this has become one of the best-known Blind Boy Fuller songs. It is also the origin of the phrase “keep on truckin’. It is played in the key of C using the VI-II-V-I progression. Fuller used this progression in about two dozen arrangements. His recording of Truckin’ My Blues Away was so popular that a year later he recorded Truckin’ My Blues Away No.2. This type of song is considered a ”hokum” tune. ‘Hokum’ is a term applied to a kind of raunchy blues song that was popular in the late 1920s and early 1930s.