Broken Down Suitcase, aka Ben Caldwell and Eric Laroque, entertained a respectably sized audience  at the Owl Acoustic Lounge with upbeat folk music, Nov. 19.

 The duo exhibited some excellent vocal harmonies, while Laroque added some superb harmonica playing on a couple songs.

Caldwell switched to mandolin for an original and stomped out rhythm on a wooden box he was standing on and which had a lot of the audience clapping along.

They played several originals which are to be on a new CD  they joked will be called “Dana’s Second Hand Erotica,” as well as numerous  folk covers by the likes of Bob Dylan’s  “Wagon Wheel” and Gillian Welch’s “I Want to Sing that Rock and Roll.”