This smooth operator joins me at Kitchen Table Studios after a long day of teaching and dadding.

Listen as this Kankakee-born musician talks skipping a grade, clutching a high-honor scholarship, falling a few credits short, mastering his degree later in life, becoming a teacher of music and playing his voice all over our community while trying to manage a tricky relationship with finances. Finally and after some persuasion, Brandon sings for the podience to my delight!

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