Blind Boy Fuller

which is a traditional number first recorded back in 1935 as Don't Tear My Clothes by the State Street Boys and was later adapted by Eric Von Schmidt.

Many recorded it in the years between, including the Harlem Ham Fats, Washboard Sam, and Blind Boy Fuller.

Now, before that, we heard a couple of electric blues numbers by two of the giants of the genre, B.B. King and Muddy Waters.

We heard B.B.' 's Walkin' Dr.

Randy Newman, Tom Waits.

And then musically, I've always loved, you know, old acoustic blues music, you know, Blind Boy Fuller, Blind Willie Johnson, Reverend Gary Davis.

Those, that type of guitar playing and finger style guitar playing has always been really inspiring to me in my songs.

And then I've started getting into some more you know, different kinds of folk music from all sorts of different, uh, countries, you know, like Italian Tarantella music or, uh, you know, Basque folk music or Arabic Oud music.

This is the story of how Truckin' refused to park.

The word itself dates back to 1920s Harlem, a dance step that blues singers like Blind Boy Fuller referenced in Keep on Truckin' Mama, Truckin' My Blues Away.

It meant to persevere, to push forward no matter what.

In 1968, underground cartoonist Robert Crumb drew his iconic keep on truckin comic.