“You wonder sometimes why you are the way you are or why you’re compelled to do things. I think when I realized that that [the Chitlin’ Circuit] was here, and that I just naturally gravitated to that music, it was almost like Church. It spurred my quest for what went on and who was involved in all of that. Just the fact that [the Sugar Bowl] and Hosea Hill was here and doing what he did, it was an enriching thing for me, because it validated my own sense of place and connected it to these passions that I had. It just reinforced something that was already developing in me and that to this day just burns for this music.”