Balder took a job as afternoon bartender
at Fermentations. A customer who owned a trailer
on a lot in downtown
rented it to him for enough money to pay the property taxes.
Duke’s godson, Kyle Ogle, needed a place to stay. Duke put
the two of them together. Picking on the back porch, writing in
the living room. They formed a duo like Homer and Jethro.
Guitar and mandolin. They started playing at The Red Bar.
They added a fiddle player. Then Duke on bass. The duo became
a quartet. Dread Clampitt. Duke had played with Elvis.
But more important, he had played with Potter.
He was later to write “Potter’s Moon.”
Duke, Potter, Franko Washboard Jackson, and Owen
called themselves Old Dogs and New Tricks.
So many local bands. Such good audiences.
