Crossword clues for yazoo
yazoo
- River in Miss
- Mississippi's __ City
- ___ City, Miss
- Tributary of the Mississippi
- River near Vicksburg
- River in Mississippi
- River at Vicksburg
- Mississippi tributary in Mississippi
- Mississippi Delta river
- Mississippi city or river
- Band whose "Only You" was featured in "Napoleon Dynamite"
- "Only You" new wave duo, as known in the U.K
- Mississippi waterway
- Mississippi feeder
- ___ City, Miss.
- Mississippi tributary named by La Salle
- Mississippi river named by La Salle
- Mississippi's ___ River
- A river that rises in west central Mississippi and flows southwest to empty into the Mississippi River above Vicksburg
- River in Miss.
- Miss. river
- River of Mississippi
- "Only You" band
- Mississippi river to the Mississippi River
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. (context US English) A tributary that runs parallel to a river (especially when separated by a natural levee).
Gazetteer
Housing Units (2000): 10015
Land area (2000): 919.482217 sq. miles (2381.447909 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 14.640072 sq. miles (37.917610 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 934.122289 sq. miles (2419.365519 sq. km)
Located within: Mississippi (MS), FIPS 28
Location: 32.797792 N, 90.387941 W
Headwords:
Yazoo, MS
Yazoo County
Yazoo County, MS
Wikipedia
Yazoo (known as Yaz in North America for legal reasons involving Yazoo Records) were a British synthpop duo from Basildon, Essex, England, consisting of former Depeche Mode member Vince Clarke (keyboards) and Alison Moyet (vocals). Formed in late 1981 after Clarke responded to an advertisement Moyet placed in a UK music magazine, over the next 18 months the duo made two critically acclaimed albums, Upstairs at Eric's and You and Me Both, blending Clarke's synthesizer melodies with Moyet's blues- and soul-influenced vocals. Yazoo enjoyed worldwide success, particularly in their home country where three of their four singles reached the top three of the UK Singles Chart and both their albums made the top two of the albums chart. In North America they are best known for the song " Situation", originally only a B-side in the UK but which was a club and airplay hit in the US and Canada before being released as the band's debut single in North America.
Despite their success, the duo split acrimoniously in the spring of 1983 due to a combination of Clarke's reluctance to make more records under the Yazoo name, a clash of personalities, and a lack of communication between the pair. Clarke went on to form Erasure, another successful and longer-lasting synthpop duo, while Moyet embarked on a highly successful solo career. Although their musical career was short, Yazoo's combination of electronic instrumentation and soulful female vocals has been cited as an influence on the house music scene that emerged in the mid-1980s, as well as bands such as LCD Soundsystem (who name-checked them on their debut single " Losing My Edge"), Hercules and Love Affair (whose leader Andy Butler has said that "Situation" was his biggest musical inspiration as a child), La Roux, Shiny Toy Guns and Blaqk Audio.
In 2008, 25 years after splitting up, Clarke and Moyet reconciled and reformed Yazoo to play a successful tour of the UK, Europe and North America in support of the reissue of Yazoo's two studio albums and a box set of their material. The pair briefly reunited again in May 2011 to play three Yazoo songs at a music festival organised by their record label.
Yazoo may mean:
- Yazoo tribe, a Native American people who lived in Mississippi
- Yazoo (language)
- Yazoo River, in the state of Mississippi
- Yazoo stream, a type of floodplain tributary
- Yazoo lands, historic area in Mississippi and Alabama, formerly occupied by Yazoo tribe
- Yazoo land scandal
- Yazoo County, Mississippi
- Yazoo City, Mississippi
- Yazoo Delta Railroad
- Yazoo Brewing Company, a brewery in Nashville, Tennessee
- Yazoo/Kees (originally Yazoo Manufacturing Company), a maker of lawn mowers owned by Husqvarna
- Yazoo (band), a 1980s English pop band, known as Yaz in Canada and the United States
- Yazoo (drink), a flavoured milk drink made by Campina
- Yazoo Records
- Yazoo, a character from Final Fantasy VII Advent Children
Yazoo is a bottled milkshake, produced by FrieslandCampina and sold in Belgium, France, the United Kingdom, and Ireland. Over 80 million bottles of Yazoo are sold annually.
Usage examples of "yazoo".
What happened on our voyage up the Yazoo River on June 6, 1863, was known only to a handful of people.
He decided to board a steamer at Haynes Bluff, on the Mississippi, and voyage up the Yazoo River to inspect operations aimed at keeping at bay Confederate attempts to lift the siege.
Do you intend to continue denying the story that Grant was drunk on the Yazoo in 1863?
Meridian and Vicksburg and Yazoo City and Friars Point are our contributions to civilization, Southern style.
Farragut, getting very anxious about the shoaling of the water, was then preparing to run down when he heard firing in the Yazoo, a tributary that joined the Mississippi four miles higher up.
Holly Springs, forcing Grant back for supplies and leaving Sherman, who had made his way up the Yazoo, completely isolated.
Grant was delighted, and, in the absence of Porter, who was up the Yazoo, sent Farragut an Ellet ram and some sorely needed coal.
I never had any faith except a general hope that you knew better than I, that the Yazoo Pass expedition and the like could succeed.
Then a white-over-red Cadillac comes pounding down Highway 3 from the direction of Yazoo City.
There was a photograph of the Yazoo River at Vicksburg with a steamboat in the background.
But the war department of the government is still almost as powerless to control the river as the Yazoo farmer who watches its changing moods, not by instruments but by the movement of an eddy in his own hidden bayou.
Ohio and the Missouri and the Illinois and the Yazoo and the Red River and wherever the hell we got to go to find that goddamned boat.
Anthony, there was the Missouri, there was the Ohio and the Yazoo and the Red River and about fifty other secondary rivers and tributaries navigable by steamer, most of which had tributaries of their own, not to mention all the little creeks and streams and cutoffs that were navigable part of the year, if you had a good pilot.
That Great-granddaddy did right at Vicksburg, that a corner of Shiloh is forever Yazoo City?
Roy Earl Holub from Yazoo City, Mississippi, and I'm pleased to make your acquaintance.