Leonard "Baby Doo" Caston may never have become quite the household name in latter-day blues that his associate Willie Dixon did, but he did play an important role in the rise of the blues out of the Mississippi Delta and into mainstream music. He was born in Sumrall, MS, in 1917, and from age eight onward was raised in Meadville, MS. He made his first trip to Chicago at age 17, but the move didn't take and he was back in Mississippi when his family moved to Natchez two years later.