Sleepy John Estes-I Aint Gonna Be Worried No More (1929-1941) 32

Sleepy John Estes

I Ain't Gonna Be Worried No More 1929-1941

1992

320kbps - mp3"i'm standing there watching the parade/feeling combination of sleepy john estes.

jayne mansfield. humphry bogart/morti- mer snerd." - Bob Dylan, Bringing It All Back Home



(Liner Notes)1. Milk Cow Blues

2. The Girl I Love, She Got Long Curly Hair

3. Someday Baby Blues

4. Little Laura Blues

5. Black Mattie Blues

6. Special Agent (Railroad Police Blues)

7. Broken-Hearted, Ragged and Dirty Too

8. Drop Down Mama

9. Street Car Blues

10. Lawyer Clark Blues

11. Whatcha Doin'?

12. Who's Been Tellin' You Buddy Brown Blues

13. Everybody Oughta Make a Change

14. Poor John Blues

15. Fire Department Blues (Martha Hardin)

16. I Ain't Gonn Be Worried No More

17. Diving Duck Blues

18. Down South Blues

19. Clean Up At Home

20. Floating Bridge

21. Working Man Blues

22. Airplane Blues

23. Stop That Thing--

John Adam Estes (January 25, 1899 or 1904 — June 5, 1977), best known as Sleepy John Estes or Sleepy John, was a U.S. blues guitarist, songwriter and vocalist, born in Ripley, Lauderdale County, Tennessee.



In 1915, Estes' father, a sharecropper who also played some guitar, moved the family to Brownsville, Tennessee. Not long after, Estes lost the sight of his right eye when a friend threw a rock at him during a baseball game.[4] At the age of 19, while working as a field hand, he began to perform professionally. The venues were mostly local parties and picnics, with the accompaniment of Hammie Nixon, a harmonica player, and James "Yank" Rachell, a guitarist and mandolin player. He would continue to work, on and off, with both musicians for more than fifty years.



Estes made his debut as a recording artist in Memphis, Tennessee in 1929, at a session organized by Ralph Peer for Victor Records.[4] His partnership with Nixon was first documented on songs such as "Drop Down Mama" and "Someday Baby Blues" in 1935; later sides replaced the harmonica player with the guitarists Son Bonds or Charlie Pickett.[5] He later recorded for the Decca and Bluebird labels, with his last pre-war recording session taking place in 1941.[4] 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.



Estes was a fine singer, with a distinctive "crying" vocal style. He frequently teamed with more capable musicians, like "Yank" Rachell, Hammie Nixon, and the piano player Jab Jones. Estes 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.[5] 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.



Bob Dylan mentions Estes in the sleevenotes to Bringing It All Back Home



- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleepy_John_EstesThank you. Enjoy!



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