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.

With the help of several other displaced rednecks, which were plentiful in that land where cars and dreams were made, Skeets formed his own hillbilly boogie band, the Lonesome Cowboys. By 1937, the Lonesome Cowboys had found steady work with WXEL in Royal Oak. From WXEL the band moved to WFDF in Flint, then to WCAR in Pontiac. But by then, 1943, the world was a wav. In April of that year, Skeets joined the army and, loins girt, shipped out to help save hillbilly boogie from the iron talons of fascism. He returned to Michigan from the Pacific in 1946 and, wearing now a bronze battle star, took up where he had left off.