Skeeter Brandon: Natural blue

Calvin Thomas Brandon has gracefully lifted himself above hardship his whole life, and that feeling ends up in his throat when he sings the blues. As one of 16 children on a farm near Roxboro, he looked forward to singing when his family went to church. They lived in the house Brandon’s father, a carpenter while in the military, built, eating a lot of fatback and pinto beans and surviving from what they made growing tobacco.

Source: Independent Weekly