Friends of the Fullertons:
Catfish Brown
Buddy Moore and Charlie "Yazoo Chaz" Bernstein are Catfish Brown, rocking acoustically on a trot line of Americana and blues, trophy-worthy classics, and a whiskey riverful of originals.
The band's name testifies to the duo's conviction that truly great folk artists are, at heart, catfish: feeders thriving on the rich remains of everything that winnows its way down to our culture's deepest realms.
Not coincidentally, the name also honors washboard hotshot Cleatus "Catfish" Brown, a prolific Mississippi jug band leader, born and bred by the banks of the Yazoo River at Shadrach Junction, a bend where no whistle ever stopped.
Brown never traveled far from his birthplace, but his early-and mid-century influence was profound. Brown was a close partner-in-crime of barroom bard "Neon" Leon Fullerton, who dubbed Brown "the music world's most legendary mythical nobody."
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Videos
Our extreme renditions
of other artists' music
These are some of our favorites — some you might know well, some we'd be pleased to introduce you to.
​"Every Girl I've Ever Known"
​by Turnpikc Troubadours
When you've found the right one, you don't need more..
​"​When Push Comes To Shove"
by Jerty Garcia and Robert Hunter
One of our favorite Grateful Dead songs.
​"​Heart of Saturday Night"
by Tom Waits
A top-down/ante-up feel-good ballad.
​"​Blackberry Winter"
by James McMurtry
Good ol' McMurtry. We love that guy.
​"​Peter Pan"
by James McMurtry
No. We won't grow up.
​"​Willin'" / "No Woman No Cry" / "Feels Like Rain"
by Lowell George / Bob Marley / John Hiatt
Three's a charm:
​"​Day-O"
Traditional
Tally me bananas! Me wanna go home!
​"​It Takes a Lot To Laugh (It Takes a Train To Cry)"
Bob Dylan
Stop that train! I wanna get off!
​"​Gypsies In the Palace"
by Jimmy Buffett
When the cat's away . . . .
​"​Hurricane"
by Levon Helm
Keep your Chevy off the levee:
​"​No More Buffalo"
by James McMurtry
The times, they are a'changin'.
​"​Please Don't Bury Me"
by John Prine
Famous last words.
​"​Goin' Back To Tennessee"
by Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen
Because there's no place like home.
​Dad jokes
By no one willing to take responsibility:
Audio tracks
Buddy Moore - I'm Too Old
Buddy Moore - Stop Being You
Buddy Moore - My Best Friend
Buddy Moore - PBR Blues
Buddy Moore - Joe's Angel
Buddy Moore - With You
Buddy Moore - She
Buddy Moore - Troubadour
Chaz and Buddy: Made in the shade for fun in the sun at a fishing hole near you..
Catfish Brown is available for fundraisers, barn raisers, hell-raisers, concerts, recording sessions, bull fights, brises, rent parties, house parties, search parties, mortgage-burnings, croquet tournies, fire walks, plank walks, inner-tube regattas, hair-splitting marathons, exorcisms, sock hops, spitting constests, belt sander races, Mauna Loa sundowns, barnyard hoe-downs, high-noon showdowns, grass-shack blow-downs, and virtually any and all very-merry-go-rounds.
To hook your own catfish, email Buddy and Chaz at catfish@thefullertons.net.
Our homegrown tunes
For your viewing and listening pleasure: unedited, unabashed, unrepentant: YouTubes of original Catfish Brown songs:
​​"Hula Girls and Mermaids"
by Buddy
His life story in a very large nutshell, recorded at a fundraiser for the homeless at the Yarmouth, Maine, AmVets hall:
​"Potluck"
by Buddy
A meditation on one of Maine's primal pleasures:
​"Stolen Riviera"
​by Chaz
Mojave small-town blues:
​"Jukebox of My Despair"
by Chaz
What's the Wulitzer that could happen?
​"Angelee"
by Chaz
A saga of love on the run:
​"Swamp Dog"
​by Chaz
Love goes to the dogs:
​"I'm Too Old"
​by Buddy
Gettin' up there!:
​"​She's Driving Him Out of Her Mind"
by Yazoo Chaz and Buddy Moore
. . . and good riddance!
​​"Hula Girls and Mermaids" (reprise)
by Buddy
We love this one, so here it is again, this time at the 2026 Yarmouth Clam Festival:
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Yazoo Chaz - When the Wagon Rolls 'Round
Yazoo Chaz - Hard Rock Hammer
Yazoo Chaz - Maggie Brown
Yazoo Chaz - Cora, Cora
Yazoo Chaz - The Cowgirl's Lullaby
Yazoo Chaz - Just Like Tom Joad's Blues
Yazoo Chaz - Sorry For Me
Yazoo Chaz - The Bide a Wee Inn
Yazoo Chaz - Stagger Lee
Yazoo Chaz - Ain't She a Caution
Yazoo Chaz - This Is the Road
Yazoo Chaz - Gone But Not Forgot
"That fish
gave me
a dirty look,
ate the bait,
and left
the hook."
Catfish Brown
