Friends of the Fullertons:
Yazoo's Blues
Chaz
Frequent fliers and co-conspirators:
Buddy
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 mid-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. He never traveled far from his birthplace, 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 to learn more about the legend of Catfish Brown or Neon Leon, email Chaz here. Yazoo Chaz videos: "Rolling Out of Baltimore" - Leon Fullerton
(Chaz playing with the Fullertons) "Viola Lee Blues" - Noah Lewis
(Chaz playing with Slim's Got the Blues) "Mercury Blues" - K.C. Douglass
(Chaz playing with Slim's Got the Blues) "Swamp Dog" - Leon Fullerton
(Chaz playing 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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