From Four Till Late: We Spent a Night at One of America's Last Surviving Juke Joints

EDITOR’S NOTE: THIS STORY WAS ORIGINALLY WRITTEN IN 2011 FOR A NOW-DEFUNCT WEBSITE CALLED HANDLEBAR. WITH THE SAD PASSING OF PO’ MONKEY’S OWNER WILLIE SEABERRY EARLIER THIS WEEK, WE’VE DECIDED TO SHARE IT HERE AS A SMALL TRIBUTE TO A GREAT MAN.  There was room to dance, but not to move. I had sweat more in the past two hours than I had in the past two weeks. It was all but assured that if there was a mishap with one of the room’s many, many lit