As a child, he was taught to play the violin by the music director of his church. One of his fellow students grew up to become jazz violinist Leroy Jenkins.
I always have been a pack rat. People throw out shit, and it might be something you can fix, just fool with it. I know people that are millionaires from hangin' with junk.
Rectangular, hollow-bodied Gretsch electric guitar
Ellas B. McDaniel
Capricorn
Ellas Otha Bates
McComb, Mississippi, USA
(age 79)
Archer, Florida, USA