True Life Stories Of Rock, Pop, n' Roll Dept. - The Dillards

Pork Bend, ILL, grew from Hy Pfooflefeffer's Ladies Only Trailer Park [Est. 1945 - Ed.]. Today it's a run-down ghost town, with the Hardee's and Kinko boarded up on Main Street, and the Wiener Baron© sausage skin factory which once provided work for up to a dozen people standing empty in mute testimony to the death of the American Dream. 

But it was not always thus. Back in its heyday the town was jumping, mainly from flea infestation, with the local music scene drawing in an audience from as far away as the end of Fatback Bvd. Mom n' Pop Dullard ran the local Happy Hog© Grease n' Lube franchise, and hosted weekly music concerts from the grease pit. 

Their boys Rodney and Douglas were natural musicians, excelling on clawhammer washboard and washtub bass. Rodney jokes today that "we kind of boosted them from the town laundry, but nobody noticed! Only Democrats washed their duds." 

Spotted by showbiz impressario LaMonte d'Esquire, the boys were swept away to Hollywood and groomed for stardom, starring as The Darling Dullards on T.V.'s The Andy Griffith Show. "Then we changed our names to The Dillards," says Douglas, "which we should of done day one. That really held us back." 

The rest is history.