He was great friends with fellow band member and whistle player Paddy Moloney, and they often went around Dublin playing in sessions and gigging during the 1950s.
He briefly left the group in 1968 for a contract with Gael-Linn Records but returned to play for the band soon after.
[3] Before The Chieftains, Potts was an original member of Seán Ó Riada's group "Ceoltoirí Chualann".
[3] After The Chieftains, Potts did a lot of radio work for RTÉ and founded Bakerswell, with whom he undertook several fund-raising tours for NPU in the United States.
[2] In 1972, while still with The Chieftains, Potts and Paddy Moloney, along with Peadar Mercier (another Chieftains member) recorded an album called Tin Whistles where both Potts and Moloney played tin whistle tunes accompanied by a bodhrán.