Hattiesburg blues musician Wes Lee has a following in the Southern part of Mississippi, but this was my first time encountering him at Juke Joint Festival. He played a version of the traditional spiritual “John The Revelator” AKA “The Book of the Seven Seals” , which caught my attention because I had just heard a quartet version of it on Spotify a few days before.
Clarksdale Welcomes The Pinkbar #JukeJointFest2014
The closure of Madidi and then Rust basically left Clarksdale without an upscale restaurant at all, so the opening of the new Pinkbar is welcome. …