Friends of the Fullertons:

Slim's Got the Blues

Two Fullertonistas make up two thirds of the acoustic blues jug revival trio Slim's Got the Blues: Charlie "Catfish" Bernstein on strings and Waterford Slim on blues harp. The irreplaceable Mark "Big Daddy" Fuller rounds out the sound on washtub bass and percussion.

For want of anything constructive to do, the three of us have teamed up to fill their copious spare time with some socially insignificant caterwauling in the American blues tradition: folk blues, Delta Blues, zydeco, country blues, city blues, and a healthy dose of "Neon" Leon Fullerton blues.

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Contact info:

Adore us via Facebook: Slim's Got the Blues
Tell us what you really thing via email: jugblues17 at gmail dot com

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The sound:

Video:

"Stranger Blues" - Traditional
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Self-aggrandizing exhibitionism at Forage Bakery, ArtWalk Lewiston, Maine, June, 2018.

Recordings:

A cold snap! ​
Vocals: ​Slim
The most popular of Fullerton's many tent revival meeting tunes. ​
​Vocals: Catfish
Popularized by Jimmy Reed, "Big Boss Man" continues to be a bar room favorite.
​Vocals: Catfish
Johnson was a real flirt, wasn't he?
​Vocals: Slim
Leon Fullerton, our spiritual advisor, claims that "Tell Ol' Bill" was originally a feminist (or at least a female) rejoinder to the staggering volume of Stagger Lee songs (an entire genre unto itself), this time sung from the point of view of the widow of Billy Lyons, the man "Stagger" Lee Shelton famously murdered. We consider this as likely as anything else Fullerton ever said. 
​Vocals: Catfish
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Howlin'!
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Waterford Slim blows it like it is. (Mark Hunt photo)
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Big Daddy thumps the tub. (ArtWalk Lewiston photo)
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Catfish sans Stetson. (Mark Hunt photo)

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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