We went to The Red Bar to hear Dread Clampitt.
Nothing makes Balder bear down on mandolin
like Sam Bush, sitting in, bearing down on fiddle.
Unless it’s Owen Saunders bearing down because
he’s playing with his brother. We heard three hours
of music. I am amazed every time I hear the boys.
How good they are. How versatile. They play songs
I didn’t know they knew. “Purple Rain”? Gram Parsons’
“Ooh
knocking around. Turns out things were busy
in the woodshed.