San Francisco Bay Blues

Jesse "Lone Cat" Fuller was a one-man band. He sang, played 12-string guitar, harmonica, kazoo, and an invention he called the "fotdella": a foot-operated bass instrument. This became his signature tune and a hit in the folk revival, later covered by Eric Clapton. It's heavily indebted to the ragtime and Piedmont blues traditions, utilizing a complex chord progression far outside the standard 12-bar format. The blues connection is in his delivery: street-corner tough, relentlessly rhythmic, and heavily syncopated.