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Title: Blind Boy Fuller article
Post by: uncle bud on January 31, 2006, 02:30:42 PM

An article about Fuller and some of the work Gaile Welker has been doing in researching him is available here:

http://www.newsobserver.com/105/story/391351.html

Note line about how she'd be worried hardcore blues scholars would assail her work if she published a book. For shame, hardcore blues scholars!   :P  I say the more information the better, and let the postdocs sort it out...

UB

Title: Re: Blind Boy Fuller article
Post by: Bunker Hill on January 31, 2006, 11:40:24 PM

Quote from: uncle bud on January 31, 2006, 02:30:42 PM

Note line about how she'd be worried hardcore blues scholars would assail her work if she published a book. For shame, hardcore blues scholars!   :P  I say the more information the better, and let the postdocs sort it out...

I know that Andy Cohen for about a decade has done his best to get her out of this 'mind-set' but it obviously doesn't seemed to have worked. :)

For those who are unaware she was the motivating force behind this:

http://members.aol.com/_ht_a/Jukebaby/bbfhmp.htm