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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 belief 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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SOME OF BUDDY'S ORIGINALS:
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Chaz and Buddy: Made in the shade for fun in the sun at a fishing hole near you..

​VIDEO SAMPLER
For your viewing pleasure: unedited, unabashed, unrepentant YouTubes of original Catfish Brown songs:
Potluck
by Buddy: A meditation on a Maine primal pleasure:
Angelee
by Chaz: A saga of love on the run:
Stolen Riviera
​by Chaz: A little desert getaway:
​Hula Girls and Mermaids
By Buddy: A concise yet comprehensive memoir:
Paradiseland
by Chaz: The original origin story:

SOME OF CHAZ'S ORIGINALS:
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The Yazoo Kid
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​BOOK 'EM!:

Catfish Brown is available for fundraisers, concerts, recording sessions, bull fights, brises, rent parties, mortgage-burnings, croquet tournaments, fire walks, inner-tube regattas, hair-splitting competitions, exorcisms, sock hops, spitting tournies, belt sander races, Mauna Loa sundowns, barnyard hoe-downs, high-noon showdowns, grass-shack blow-downs, and virtually any very-merry-go-round.

"That fish
gave me
a dirty look,
ate the bait,
and left
​the hook."

Catfish Brown

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