Friends of the Fullertons:
Yazoo's Blues
 Chaz
Upcoming Yazoo Chaz appearances:
Friday, December 30, 8 to 11 p.m. Gritty McDuff's 187 Lower Main Street, Freeport with Catfish Brown Frequent fliers and co-conspirators:
Buddy (of Catfish Brown)
Kal
 Slim
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Yazoo's Blues, the brainchild and love child of Maine songwriter and guit-picker Yazoo Chaz, draws music and inspiration from Cleatus "Catfish" Brown, "Neon" Leon Fullerton, and other lesser-known early- and mid-twentieth century troubadours of America's blue highways and byways.
The act's name comes from one of Catfish Brown's instrumental pieces, "Yazoo's Blues." As Leon Fullerton (another rumor in his own time) tells it, Brown was a prolific Mississippi jug band leader, born and bred by the banks of the Yazoo River at a dirt crossroad known locally as Shadrach Junction. He never traveled far from Shadrach, but his pre-and post-WWII influence was extensive. Local Maine players appearing with Chaz at different times this summer include Americana artist Buddy Moore, jukebox rocker Kool Hand Kal Finison, and blues harpist Waterford Slim. More info: For booking or repertoire information, to join the Yazoo Chaz Fan Club, to learn more about the legend of Catfish Brown or Neon Leon, or just to shoot the Shinola, email Chaz here. Videos: "Rolling Out of Baltimore" - Leon Fullerton
(with the Fullertons) "Viola Lee Blues" - Noah Lewis
(with Slim's Got the Blues) "Mercury Blues" - K.C. Douglass
(with Slim's Got the Blues) "Swamp Dog" - Leon Fullerton
(with the Fullertons) Hear more here:
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"Swum up the mighty Yazoo
and down the Ohio, and I can take you places I know you want to go." Catfish Brown |
The blue Yazoo
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