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.
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Rock the House at Lafayette’s House Rockers Records
Lafayette’s Northgate Mall is a dying mall, if not a dead mall, which is somewhat peculiar, as it is much closer to I-10 and I-49 …
Thankful 4 The Drummers At The @HardRockMemphis with @CalvinR_Rodgers @Bart_Orr
Friday night, the Memphis gospel music community came out to support local Memphis drummers, and to see Calvin “C-Rod” Rodgers, arguably one of the best …
Halloween Scream Shed at Greater Works Deliverance Ministries in Collierville
My homeboy Otis Logan had texted me about a musicians’ shed (jam session) taking place at a church on Highway 72 in Collierville on Halloween …
Waiting on Jesus With The Anointed Cowan Singers #MMHF13
The Anointed Cowan Singers are another Memphis gospel group whose performances and repertoire highlight the extremely close relationship between Memphis gospel and Memphis soul. In …
WLOK’s Annual Stone Soul Picnic
By an odd coincidence of tradition, the Memphis Music and Heritage Festival always coincides with another Memphis tradition, radio station WLOK’s Stone Soul Picnic, which …
Classic Memphis Gospel With The Appointed #MMHF13
One of the best aspects of the Memphis Music and Heritage Festival is the close proximity of different styles of Memphis music on different stages, …
Day 2 of the Sunflower River Blues and Gospel Festival
Despite really heavy downpours in Memphis and Tunica, the weather was sunny and pretty at Clarksdale for the second day of the Sunflower River Blues …
82-Year Old Bluesman Leo Welch at Otha Turner’s Place, Senatobia, 7/27/13
I had never heard of Leo Welch before yesterday, but when the elderly man got on stage, he announced that he had been born in …
Gospel Singer Sherri Jones-Moffett at the Recording Acadmey 40th Anniversary @Grammy365 @LevittShell
I was not at all familiar with Memphis gospel singer Sherri Jones-Moffett, but her performance at The Recording Academy anniversary concert was rousing, and I …