[1] David Lonzo Thompson was born in Jackson, Mississippi, United States.
[2] His father, Sam Thompson, had played the blues with Asie Payton, Paul "Wine" Jones, and James "Son" Thomas among others.
[1][3] He teamed up with Booba Barnes in 1984, and played the Mississippi juke joint circuit.
[4] Regarding the latter, Down Beat magazine stated it was "Incendiary and feral, with a church choir hustle and a Mississippi hill country stomp".
[12] On February 14, 2010, and following the last gig of their tour at Fiery Ron's Home Team BBQ in Sullivan's Island, South Carolina,[13] his entourage were driving back to Greenville, Mississippi,[10] when his band's touring Ford van overturned on Interstate 20 in Aiken County, South Carolina.