Enos William McDonald was born on October 1, 1915, on a small farm near* Greenway, Arkansas. He took to music and to female flesh at an early age. Humble tillers of the soil that they were, his parents, Sam and Ethel, could not afford to buy-their son a maiden, but they did purchase for him a guitar. After finishing high school in 1932, young Skeets—such was the odd name by which our hero would thenceforth till the end of his days be known—bade farewell to his Arkansas home and traveled north, to Michigan, where cars and dreams are made.