“You could smell it from blocks away,” said journalist and author Lynell George, who grew up near Phillips’ place. “He was a survivor, and he helped other people survive too,” said his son Roderick Phillips, who operates the family barbecue pit in Inglewood. Woodrow “Woody” Phillips Jr. was born Dec. 29, 1941, in Keatchie, La., a town of several hundred south of Shreveport, where farming was the only way to make a living. Undated photo of Woody Phillips (Courtesy Phillips family )“I wanted to be able to explode, to go as far as I thought I could go, rather than as far as someone else suggested,” he told The Times in 1993. A cousin, Foster Phillips, also opened a pair of of rib houses, both named Phillips Barbecue.

Source: Los Angeles Times January 29, 2020 19:18 UTC