Bass player Dan Ennis was born in Boston and moved to South Carolina when he was sixteen. He purchased his first guitar in 1988--a $50 classical acoustic--from Mikalis Pawn Shop in Summerville, SC while he was in high school. His band life began as a grad student at Auburn University where he played harp in a couple of short-lived blues outfits, sat in with college bands like like Euglena and The Killbillies, and helped found and played guitar in the alt-country trio Paschal, which survives to this day in eastern Alabama. Dan has a professorial site here.