Friends of the Fullertons:

Slim's Got the Blues

Waterford Slim on blues harp, Preston Harrison and Yazoo Chaz on strings, and Mark "Mister Clean" Fuller on washboard and washtub, and other assorted friends enjoy cluttering their copious idle hours with socially insignificant caterwauling in the American blues tradition.
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The pinks and the blues: Mark, Chaz, Slim, and a young fashionista at Friends of Casco Bay's 2022 annual meeting, Cunningham Farm, New Gloucester, Maine

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Videos -

(with a little help from our friends)

​"Viola Lee Blues" - Noah Lewis

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 guest Jonathan "Barrelhouse" Bell on keys.
"Mercury Blues" - K.C. Douglass

Originally a blues tune, it morphed over the years into a rockers' favorite.
Special guest Jonathan "Barrelhouse" Bell on keys.
Picture"Stranger Here" - Traditional (CLICK ON PICTURE FOR VIDEO.)
​Sonny Terry and Brownie McGee had a real nice version. We like ours, too.
Special guest Mark "Big Daddy" Fuller on washtub.
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"Lone Star Special" - Leon Fullerton (CLICK ON PICTURE FOR VIDEO.)
​A ballad of love narrowly averted.
Special guests Mark "Big Daddy" Fuller on washtub and Maia the Cleaning Lady on washboard.
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Waterford Slim blows it like it is. (Mark Hunt photo)
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Chaz serves up some fillet of soul. (Mark Hunt photo)
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Mark, Slim, Chaz, and Preston, Beech Hill Farm & Bison, Waterford, Maine

Audio recordings

A cold snap! ​
Vocals: ​Slim
The most popular of "Neon" Leon Fullerton's many tent revival meeting gospel tunes. ​
​Vocals: Chaz
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: Chaz
A proletarian anthem and perennial barroom favorite, first popularized by Jimmy Reed. 
​Vocals: Chaz
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Slim and Chaz at the Lewiston Farmers Market 2019 Spaghetti Squash Dinner.
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We saw the light.

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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