​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."

​COVERS:
​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.

​"​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.

​"​Gypsies In the Palace"
by Jimmy Buffett. When the cat's away . . . .

​"​Hurricane"
by Levon Helm. Don't drive your Chevy to the levee!

​BOOK 'EM!:

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.

​ORIGINALS:
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:

​"Angelee"
by Chaz. A saga of love on the run:

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