[1] When he was a child, his father, Grant Belfour, taught him to play the guitar, and he continued his tutelage in the blues from the musicians Otha Turner, R. L. Burnside, and Junior Kimbrough.

His music was rooted in Mississippi hill country traditions, in contrast to Delta blues.

[2] When Belfour was thirteen, his father died, and music was relegated to what free time he had, as his energy went to helping his mother provide for the family.

In 1959, he married Noreen Norman and moved to Memphis, Tennessee, where he worked in construction for the next 35 years.

Eight of his songs are included on the musicologist David Evans's compilation album The Spirit Lives On: Deep South Country Blues and Spirituals in the 1990s, released by the German Hot Fox label in 1994.