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

Chaz and Buddy: Made in the shade for fun in the sun at a fishing hole near you..

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.

Videos

COVERS:

Our extreme renditions

of other artists' music

These are some of our favorites — some you might know well, some we're pleased to introduce you to.

Featuring:

The Band • Harry Belafonte • Jimmy Buffett • Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen • Jim Ctoce • Bob Dylan • The Grateful Dead • Levon Helm • John Hiatt • Bob Marley • James McMurtry • Blind Willie McTell • Memphis Jug Band • John Prine • The Temptations • Turnpike Troubadours • Tom Waits

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

by Lowell George (Little Feat) / Bob Marley / John Hiatt — 2026, Yarmouth Clam Festival

Three's a charm:

"My Girl"

by the Temptations — 2026, Bateau Brewing, Gardiner

Good for sunshine on a cloudy day.

"Gypsies In the Palace"

by Jimmy Buffett — 2026, Yarmouth Clam Festival

When the cat's away . . . .

"Every Girl I've Ever Known"

by Turnpikc Troubadours — 2026, Bateau Brewing, Gardiner

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

"Peter Pan"

by James McMurtry — 2026, Yarmouth AmVets

No. We won't grow up.

"When Push Comes To Shove"

by Jerty Garcia and Robert Hunter— 2026, Yarmouth Clam Festival

One of our favorite Grateful Dead songs.

"The Weight"

by the Band — 2026, Boothbay Fall Foliage Festival

Take a load off!

"Heart of Saturday Night"

by Tom Waits — 2026, Bateau Brewing, Gardiner

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

"Up On Cripple Creek"

by the Band — 2026, Boothbay Fall Foliage Festival

. . . and good riddance!

"Day-O"

Traditional — 2026, Yarmouth AmVets

Tally me bananas! Me wanna go home!

"On the Road Again"

by Will Shade (Memphis Jug Band) — 2026, Bateau Brewing, Gardiner

Saddle up, Sis, we're on the road again!

"West LA Fadeaway"

by Robert Hunter and Jerry Garcia — 2026, Boothbay Fall Foliage Festival

Don't want to buy it, just want to sing it for an hour or two. . . .

"Statesboro Blues"

by Blind Willie McTell — 2026, Two Maine Guys Restaurant, Augusta

Statesboro, Georgia, that is.

"Blackberry Winter"

James McMurtry — 2026, Bateau Brewing, Gardiner

Just tell her no!

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

Bob Dylan— 2026, Yarmouth Clam Festival

Stop that train! I wanna get off!

"Hurricane"

by Levon Helm — 2026, Yarmouth AmVets

Keep your Chevy off the levee!

"Just My Imagination"

by the Temptations — 2026, Vassalboro Grange

. . . and it ran away with me.

"You Don't Mess Around With Jim"

by Jim Crocci — 2026, Two Maine Guys Restaurant, Augusta

Don't mess around with Buddy, either.

"No More Buffalo"

by James McMurtry — 2026, Vassalboro Grange

The times, they are a'changin'.

"Goin' Back To Tennessee"

by Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen — 2026, Yarmouth Clam Festival

Because there's no place like home.

"Please Don't Bury Me"

by John Prine — 2026, Vassalboro Grange

Famous last words.

"Peter Pan" (reprise)

By James McMurtry — 2026, Two Maine Guys Restaurant, Augusta

A nice wrap-up to a long show.

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 — Vassalboro Grange

From the 2026 Yarmouth Clam Festival, Buddy's life story in a very large, very cracked nutshell.

"This I Gotta See"

by Chaz (Buddy singing) — 2026, Vassalboro Grange,

Even if I make a spectacle of myself!

"Angelee"

by Chaz (Buddy singing) — 2026, Yarmouth Clam Festival

A saga of love on the run:

"Stolen Riviera"

by Chaz (Buddy singing) — 2026, Vassalboro Grange

Mojave small-town blues:

"Potluck"

by Buddy — 2025, The Blue Note, Augusta

A meditation on one of Maine's primal pleasures:

"Jukebox of My Despair"

by Chaz — 2026, Vassalboro Grange

What's the Wulitzer that could happen?

"Swamp Dog"

by Chaz (Buddy singing) — 2026, Yarmouth AmVets

Love goes to the dogs:

"Stuck"

by Chaz — 2026, Yarmouth AmVets

Love goes to the dogs:

"I'm Too Old"

by Buddy— 2026, Yarmouth Clam Festival

Gettin' up there!:

"That's Where I Am"

by Buddy— 2026, Vassalboro Grtange

We don't need no stinking GPS!

"Stop Being You"

by Buddy— 2026, Vassalboro Grange

EWho, me?

"Hard Rock Hammer"

by Chaz (Buddy singing) — 2026, Boothbay Fall Foliage Festival

The perfect tool for the next time you're half a mile from heaven and a hundred miles from town.

"My Baby Likes Me"

by Chaz — 2026, Vassalboro Grange

Love songs are nice, but like songs rule. . . .

"She's Driving Him Out of Her Mind"

by Chaz and Buddy (Buddy singing) — 2026, Yarmouth Clam Festival

. . . and good riddance!

"Hula Girls and Mermaids" (reprise)

by Buddy — 2026, Yarmouth AmVets

We love this one, so here it is again, this time at a fundraiser for the homeless at the Yarmouth AmVets hall.

Dad jokes

Audio tracks - all original

Buddy's:

Chaz's: