cradle, Fuller played the six pedals of the fotdella like a piano. With the instrument's six notes, he could play bass lines in several keys. He occasionally played without it, if a song exceeded its limited range. The name was coined by his wife, who took to calling the instrument a "foot-diller" (a "killer-diller" instrument played with the foot), which was shortened to fotdella. The term foot piano has been used by some performers and musicologists to describe this type of instrument. Death Fuller died in January 29, 1976, in Oakland, California, from heart disease, at the age of 79. He was interred at Evergreen Cemetery, in Oakland. His fotdella and his 1962 Silvertone Electric-Acoustic guitar (the latter purchased from a Sears and Roebuck store in Detroit to replace his Maurer guitar, which had been stolen while he was on tour) are in the possession of the Smithsonian Institution. Influence Fuller influenced and has had songs covered by Bob Dylan ("You're No Good"), Johnny Cash ("The Legend of John Henry"), Grateful Dead ("The Monkey and the Engineer" and "Beat It On Down the Line"), Hot Tuna, Peter, Paul and Mary, Janis Joplin, Jim Croce, Eric Clapton, Phoebe Snow ("San Francisco Bay Blues"), Don Partridge ("San Francisco Bay Blues", "Working on the Railroad" and "Stealin' Back to My Old Time Used to Be"), Glenn Yarbrough, Richie Havens, Paul McCartney, T. Nile, Dan the One Man Band, Mungo Jerry, Tim O'Brien & Hot Rize ("99 Years and One Dark Day"), Punch Brothers, and Dave Rawlings Machine ("Monkey and the Engineer"). During Fuller's UK tour in 1965, Don Partridge booked him for a sold-out concert in Ealing and was so influenced by Fuller that he developed his own stand-up one-man band concept for street busking in the UK, later leading to his pop success. Selected discography Working on the Railroad (World Song, 1954) Frisco Bound (Cavalier, 1956) Jazz, Folk Songs, Spirituals & Blues (Good Time Jazz, 1958) San Francisco Bay Blues (Good Time Jazz, 1963) San Francisco Bay Blues (Prestige Folklore, 1963) [Different record to preceding entry] Move on Down the Line (Topic, 1965) "Jesse Fuller's Favorites" (Prestige, 1964) "Negro Minstrel" (Folk-Lyric Records, 1962(?)) "God Made the Blues" (Folk Art Records, 1964) References External links Wald, Elijah (1997). "Jesse Fuller Profile". Roots of the Grateful Dead: Jesse "The Lone Cat" Fuller KRON-TV documentary film about Fuller, 1971 Illustrated Fuller discography [ "Jesse Fuller: