Catfish Brown

Friends of the Fullertons:

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."

Pickin' and grinnin' at the Down East Country Music Association (DECMA) 2026 Music Festival

Videos

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.

"Gypsies In the Palace"

by Jimmy Buffett — Yarmouth Clam Festival

When the cat's away . . . .

"My Girl"

by the Temptations — Two Maine Guys Pub

Good for sunshine on a cloudy day.

"Willin'" / "No Woman No Cry" / "Feels Like Rain"

by Lowell George (Little Feat) / Bob Marley / John Hiatt — Yarmouth Clam Festival

Three's a charm:

"Peter Pan"

by James McMurtry — Yarmouth AmVets

No. We won't grow up.

"Every Girl I've Ever Known"

by Turnpikc Troubadours — Vassalboro Grange

When you've found the right one, you don't need more..

"When Push Comes To Shove"

by Jerty Garcia and Robert Hunter— Yarmouth Clam Festival

One of our favorite Grateful Dead songs.

"Heart of Saturday Night"

by Tom Waits — Vassalboro Grange

A top-down/ante-up feel-good ballad.

"Day-O"

Traditional — Yarmouth AmVets

Tally me bananas! Me wanna go home!

"Statesboro Blues"

by Blind Willie McTell — Two Maine Guys Pub

Statesboro, Georgia, that is.

"It Takes a Lot To Laugh (It Takes a Train To Cry)"

Bob Dylan— Yarmouth Clam Festival

Stop that train! I wanna get off!

"Hurricane"

by Levon Helm — Yarmouth AmVets

Keep your Chevy off the levee:

"No More Buffalo"

by James McMurtry — Vassalboro Grange

The times, they are a'changin'.

"Please Don't Bury Me"

by John Prine — Vassalboro Grange

Famous last words.

"Just My Imagination"

by the Temptations — Vassalboro Grange

. . . and it ran away with me.

"You Don't Mess Around With Jim"

by Jim Crocci — Two Maine Guys Pub

Don't mess around with Buddy, either.

"Goin' Back To Tennessee"

by Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen— Yarmouth Clam Festival

Because there's no place like home.

"Peter Pan" (reprise)

By James McMurtry — Two Maine Guys Pub

A nice wrap-up to a long show.

Audio tracks

Songs Buddy wrote: