Sleepy John Estes
Advertisement
Advertisement
Top Related Artists
Biography
Certainly one of the most influential figures in the history of the blues, and the visionary composer of many classics ("Someday Baby", "Diving Duck Blues", Milk Cow Blues), Sleepy John Estes began recording blues in Memphis in 1929, in which his expressive, dying voice is underlined by dominant harmonica playing (Hammie Nixon, Noah Lewi, Robert Nighthawk). A bittersweet chronicler of the segregated South, Estes enjoyed great popularity in Memphis and then Chicago. He played a significant role in defining the styles of these two cities. After the war, he was eclipsed for a long time. Rediscovered in 1962, he appeared at numerous festivals in the U.S. and Europe, and recorded a number of LPs that all too often betrayed his extreme tiredness.
Read All
Read Less
Albums
Top Tracks
- Track Popularity
- Airplane Blues
- Al Rawls
- Bad Luck's My Buddy
- Black gal swing
- Black Mattie Blues
- Registration Day Blues
- Bring Me My .38 Pistol
- Broke and Hungry by Mike Bloomfield
- Broken Hearted, Ragged And Dirty Too
- Policy Man Blues
- Brownsville Blues
- Bye and Bye (When the Morning Comes)
- City Hall Blues
- Down South Blues - Sleepy John Estes
- Clean Up At Home
- Divin' Duck Blues
- Divin' Duck
- Come Back Home
- Don't You Want To Know
- Down South Blues
- Drop Down
- Drop Down Mama
- Easin' Back To Tennessee
- Every Time My Heart Beats
