Jesse Fuller (March 12, 1896 ? January 29,[1] 1976) was an American one-man band musician, best known for his song "San Francisco Bay Blues".[2][3] Fuller was born in Jonesboro, Georgia, near to Atlanta. He was sent by his mother to live with foster parents when he was a young child, in a rural setting where he was badly mistreated. Growing up, he worked a multitude of jobs: grazing cows for ten cents a day, working in a barrel factory, a broom factory, a rock quarry, on a railroad and a streetcar company, shining shoes, and even peddling hand-carved wooden snakes.[4].