From Bob Corritore
- RIP Wesley "Junebug" Jefferson 3/23/1944-7/22/2009: This sad news just in from Roger Stolle: Iconic Clarksdale blues singer/bassist/bandleader Wesley "Junebug" Jefferson passed away yesterday of complications stemming from lung cancer. Born in Roundaway in Coahoma County, Mississippi, Jefferson grew up working the cotton fields and first started playing blues at a young age, influenced by his guitar-playing grandfather, Claude Jefferson. He would go on to play with Frank Frost, Sam Carr, David "Pecan" Porter, Robert "Bilbo" Walker, Little Jeno Tucker, Super Chikan, Willie Foster, Big Jack Johnson, and many others before fronting his own band and working regularly throughout the south. His first recordings appeared in 1970 on the compilation Coahoma the Blues on the Rooster Blues record label. He would later release the self-produced Delta Blues Live from the Do Drop Inn, and most recently the 2007 collaboration with Terry "Big T" Williams, Meet Me In The Cottonfield on the Broke and Hungry record label. He also appeared with other Mississippi blues artists in 2008 documentary M for Mississippi, which won the 2009 Blues Music Award for "DVD Of The Year". A well-loved and highly influential figure in the Clarksdale blues community, Wesley will be greatly missed. For an in-depth bio on this great musician by Scott Barretta, click here.
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