Sleepy John Estes – 5 albumsFiled Under: Music
Estes made his debut as a recording artist in Memphis, Tennessee in 1929, at a session organized by Ralph Peer for Victor Records.[3] His partnership with Nixon was first documented on songs like "Drop Down Mama" and "Someday Baby Blues" in 1935; later sides replaced the harmonica player with the guitarists Son Bonds or Charlie Pickett.[4] He later recorded for the Decca and Bluebird labels, with his last pre-war recording session taking place in 1941.[3] He made a brief return to recording at Sun Studio in Memphis in 1952, recording "Runnin’ Around" and "Rats in My Kitchen," but otherwise was largely out of the public eye for two decades.
Though only modestly skilled as a guitarist (he was frequently teamed with more capable musicians, like Rachell, Nixon, and the piano player Jab Jones), Estes was a fine singer, with a distinctive "crying" vocal style. He sounded so much like an old man, even on his early records, that blues revivalists reportedly delayed looking for him because they assumed he would have to be long dead, and because fellow musician Big Bill Broonzy had written that Estes had died. By the time he was tracked down, by Bob Koester and Samuel Charters in 1962, he had become completely blind and was living in poverty. He resumed touring and recording, reunited with Nixon and toured Europe several times and Japan, with a clutch of albums released on the Delmark Records label.[4] Though his later records are generally considered less interesting than his pre-war output. Nevertheless, Estes, Nixon and Rachell also made a successful appearance at the 1964 Newport Folk Festival.[5]
1935-1938
01 Down South Blues
02 Stop That Thing
03 Someday Baby Blues
04 Who’s Telling You Buddy Brown Blu
05 Married Woman Blues
06 Drop Down Mama
07 Government Money
08 Vernita Blues
09 Need More Blues
10 Jack And Jill Blues
11 Poor Man’s Blues
12 Hobo Jungle Blues
13 Air Plane Blues
14 Everybody Oughta Make A Change
15 Liquor Store Blues
16 Easin’ Back To Tennessee
17 Fire Department Blues (Martha Har
18 Clean Up At Home
19 New Someday Baby
20 Brownsville Blues
21 Special Agent (Railroad Police Bl
Bitrate: 192
Size: 86 MB
http://rapidshare.com/files/141922371/1935-1938.rar
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First Recordings
01 Broken Hearted, Ragged And Dirty
02 The Girl I Love She Got Long Curl
03 Divin’ Duck Blues
04 Little Sarah
05 Black Mattie Blues
06 T-Bone Steak Blues
07 Chickasaw Special
08 Devil In The Woodpile
09 Milk Cow Blues
10 Street Car Blues
11 Expressman Blues, Wadie Green Blu
12 Watcha Doin’_
13 Poor John Blues
14 Stack O’ Dollars
15 My Black Cat Blues
16 Sweet Mama
17 Like I Want To Be
18 Ticket Agent Blues
19 New Minglewood Blues
20 Selling The Jelly
21 Bad Luck’s My Buddy
Bitrate: 192
Size: 89 MB
http://rapidshare.com/files/141926206/First_Recordings.rar
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Goin_ To Brownsville
01 Run Around
02 Lost My Eyesight
03 It Was A Dream
04 Try Him And See
05 Divin_ Duck
06 Street Car Blues
07 Sloppy Drunk Blues
08 I_m Goin_ Home
09 Floating Bridge
10 Sixty-One And Sixty-Two Rats
11 Vernita_s Blues
12 Someday Baby
13 Freedom Loan
14 Bye And Bye When The Morning Come
15 Working Man_s Blues
16 Bring Me My .38 Pistol
17 Married Woman Blues
18 Sweet Sugar Mama
19 Srop That Thing
20 In My Father_s House
21 Goin_ To Brownsville
22 Sleepy John Estes Interviewed By
Bitrate: 192
Size: 93 MB
http://rapidshare.com/files/141929858/Goin__To_Brownsville.rar
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Someday Baby
01 The Girl I Love, She’s Got Long C
02 Broken Hearted, Ragged And Dirty
03 Divin’ Duck Blues
04 Milk Cow Blues
05 Poor John Blues
06 Stack O’ Dollars
07 Stop That Thing
08 Someday Baby Blues
09 Married Woman Blues
10 Drop Down Mama
11 I Ain’t Gonna Be Worried No More
12 Floating Bridge
13 Jack And Jill Blues
14 Everybody Oughta Make A Change
15 Liquor Store Blues
16 New Someday Baby
17 Brownsville Blues
18 Special Agent
19 Time Is Drawing Near
20 Tell Me How About It
21 You Shouldn’t Do That
22 Lawyer Clark Blues
23 Working Man Blues
Bitrate: 192
Size: 93 MB
http://rapidshare.com/files/141933398/Someday_Baby.rar
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The Legend Of Sleepy John Estes
1-01 Rats In My Kitchen
1-02 Someday Baby
1-03 Stop That Thing
1-04 Diving Duck Blues
1-05 Death Valley Blues
1-06 Married Woman Blues
1-07 Down South Blues
1-08 Who’s Been Telling You, Buddy B
1-09 Drop Down Mama
1-10 You Got To Go
1-11 Milk Cow Blues
1-12 I’d Been Well Warned
Bitrate: 192
Size: 50 MB
http://rapidshare.com/files/141918138/The_Legend_Of_Sleepy_John_Estes.rar
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