Several years ago, the couple organized the New Orleans Bike Fest for two years at Bayou Segnette State Park. “We had $25,000 worth of soundstage and lighting, and spent about $50,000 to book bands. We had 3,000 people show up, but if it had rained, we would have lost all our money,” he says. “We came close to breaking even. We realized that we had good luck with two years of good weather.”

Although they decided not to push that good luck, and stopped organizing the event after the first two years, he realized that much of the success was due to his heavy emphasis on promotion. “I was able to create a very large email list of 2,000 bikers. That was an extremely good method of marketing,” he says. He also used TV and radio.

Lee says his favorite blues musician is Stevie Ray Vaughan, who he saw perform on the Riverboat President, where Vaughan performed several times during the ‘80s. He also enjoys watching local shows, such as Danny Alexander, Lil Red & Big Bad, and Eudora Evans and Deep Soul.

Lee has been instrumental in helping the VBK/NOBS with their 501(c)(3) filings, and the Voodoo Blues Challenge. “I’m just a guy that likes to listen to the blues and I like to be involved in something. James Hines found me when I had put the bike fest to the side and needed something to get involved in. It sounded like fun to get involved in the blues society, so I did,” he says.