Friends of the Fullertons:
Slim's Got the Blues
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Three former Fullertonistas make up the acoustic blues jug band Slim's Got the Blues: Catfish Brown on strings, Waterford Slim on blues harp, and Swamp Sister Sue on bass, teaming up to fill their copious idle hours with some socially insignificant caterwauling in the American blues gestalt: folk, Delta, zydeco, country, city, and a healthy dose of "Neon" Leon Fullerton blues.
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"Stranger Here" - Traditional (Click on picture to see video.)
Sonny Terry and Brownie McGee had a real nice version. We like ours, too.
Special guest Mark "Big Daddy" Fuller on washtub. 
"Viola Lee Blues" - Noah Lewis (Click on picture to see video.)
Lewis played harp in Gus Cannon's Jug Stompers. His claim to fame: He could play two harps at once - one with his mouth and one with his nose. Don't try that at home!
Special guests Mark "Big Daddy" Fuller on washtub and Jonathan "Barrelhouse" Bell on keys. 
"Mercury Blues" - K.C. Douglass (Click on picture to see video.)
Originally a blues tune, it morphed over the years into a rockers' favorite.
Special guests Mark "Big Daddy" Fuller on washtub and Jonathan "Barrelhouse" Bell on keys. 
"Lone Star Special" - Leon Fullerton (Click on picture to see video)
A ballad of love narrowly averted.
Special guests Mark "Big Daddy" Fuller on washtub and Maia the Cleaning Lady on washboard. |
Waterford Slim blows it like it is. (Mark Hunt photo)
Catfish serves up some fillet of soul. (Mark Hunt photo)
Swamp Sister Sue: Funktifyin'! (Debbie Louis photo)
Audio recordingsA cold snap!
Vocals: Slim The most popular of Fullerton's many tent revival meeting gospel tunes.
Vocals: Catfish That Bob Johnson was a real flirt, wasn't he?
Vocals: Slim "Neon" Leon Fullerton, our inspiration, spiritual touchstone, muse, and handy-dandy candyman, once claimed that "Tell Ol' Bill" was originally a feminist (or at least a female) response to the staggering volume of Stagger Lee songs (an entire genre unto itself), sung from the point of view of the widow of Billy Lyons, the man "Stagger" Lee Shelton famously murdered and relieved of a Stetson hat. We consider this as likely as any of Fullerton's theories.
Vocals: Catfish A perennial barrom favorite, first popularized by Jimmy Reed.
Vocals: Catfish God or Eve? Adam made the right choice.
Vocals: Catfish Band: The Fullertons The blues Neon Leon-style.
Vocals: Catfish Band: The Fullertons 
Slim and Catfish at the Lewiston Farmers Market 2019 Spaghetti Squash Dinner.
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"Now, the river runs into the ocean,
And the ocean pours into the sea, But if I don't find my sweet woman, Somebody got to bury me." Robert Lee "Robert Nighthawk" McCoy |