Sista Jean, whose real name is Jean McClain, got her musical experience as backing vocal section member of such great artists like Tina Turner, Mick Jagger, Michael Bolton, Celine Dion or Cher When she was not on tour with them, she usually sang blues with CB (Carlyle Barriteau), a guitar player deeply influenced by George Benson who backed musicians like Bobby Caldwell, Ben E King, Ricky Lee Jones, The Miracles or Paul Taylor among others After a three years long tour, now Sista Jean has started to work again with CB They have published this last project, a tribute to the great Odetta Holmes, who is considered the queen of American folk blues as well as an outstanding activist during the sixties in the fight for black people civil rights and whose influences can be found in the music of Joan Baez, Mavis Staples, Janis Joplin or Bob Dylan In fact Sista decided to devote herself to music after seeing Odetta playing live Her emotional voice together with the elegance of CB guitar and the rest of the musicians involved, complete an honest album of twelve sincere songs, the majority coming from Leadbelly, one more by Alan Lomax, another one a Sista Jean & Carlyle Barriteau own composition and the rest traditional ones