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Sleepy John Estes - Stone Blind Blues / Live In Japan With Hammie Nixon

Album: Stone Blind Blues
Size: 166,1 MB
Time: 70:46
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 1999
Styles: Country Blues
Label: Catfish Records
Art: Front & Back

01. Broken Hearted, Ragged and Dirty Too (3:19)
02. Floating Bridge (3:10)
03. Lawyer Clark Blues (3:07)
04. Harlem Bound (2:03)
05. Divin' Duck Blues (3:12)
06. Liquor Store Blues (2:27)
07. Watcha Doin' (3:01)
08. Working Man Blues (2:58)
09. Someday Baby Blues (3:00)
10. The Girl I Love She Got Long Curly Hair (2:56)
11. Special Agent Blues (2:50)
12. Easin' Back to Tennessee (2:41)
13. Stone Blind Blues (3:00)
14. Milk Cow Blues (3:01)
15. Clean up at Home (2:35)
16. Tell Me How About It (2:26)
17. I Ain't Gonna Be Worried No More (3:04)
18. Jack and Jill Blues (2:38)
19. You Shouldn't Do That (2:32)
20. Stop That Thing (2:42)
21. Hobo Jungle Blues (2:55)
22. Brownsville Blues (3:07)
23. Drop Down (2:45)
24. Everybody Oughta Make a Change (2:48)
25. Time Is Drawing Near (2:22)


Sleepy John Estes wasn't a great singer, and he was a barely passable guitarist, and yet he managed to sustain an intermittent career in the blues for over 50 years. He was able to do that because he was an amazingly subtle songwriter, with a clear grasp of characterization, location, and metaphor, traits not usually associated with the country blues. This fine single-disc collection of his early 78s has several examples of Estes' deceptive skill, including the blues classic "Diving Duck Blues," which sports the immortal lines "if the river was whiskey/and I was a diving duck/I'd dive to the bottom/and I never would come up," lines that have since shown up in countless other blues songs. Other gems on this anthology from Catfish Records include a bit of domestic advice ("Better Clean Up at Home"), some self-analysis ("I Ain't Gonna Be Worried No More"), and even a study in pop dynamics ("Time Is Drawing Near"). The deceptively simple "Brownsville Blues" equates a stalled car with a stalled life, while the haunting "Floating Bridge" is a magnificent bit of cautionary autobiography, complete with a metaphoric (and almost literal) death and resurrection. Time after time one finds that these songs, which appear so simple and calm on the surface, reveal surprising depth and unexpected lyrical turns when closely examined. There is simply no one else in country blues quite like Estes. ~Review by Steve Leggett


Thanks to DrPeak.
Stone Blind Blues

Album: Live In Japan With Hammie Nixon
Size: 171,5 MB
Time: 73:22
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2014
Styles: Country Blues
Label: Delmark
Art: Front

01. Corrina Corinna (3:53)
02. Broke And Hungry (4:37)
03. You Shouldn't Say That (3:38)
04. Tin Pan Alley (6:06)
05. Holy Spirit, Don't You Leave Me (1:27)
06. I'll Be Glad When You're Dead, You Rascall You (4:05)
07. Stop That Thing (3:30)
08. The Girl I Love, She Got Long Curly Hair (4:08)
09. Divin' Duck Blues (4:18)
10. When Your Mother Is Gone (2:12)
11. When The Saints Go Marching In (2:06)
12. Introduction (0:21)
13. Mary Come On Home (5:40)
14. Rats In My Kitchen (5:12)
15. Potato Diggin' Man (2:43)
16. Fox Chase (1:40)
17. Sleepy John's Twist (3:04)
18. Welcome (0:20)
19. Love Grows In Your Heart (6:28)
20. Brownsville Blues (6:02)
21. Jesus Is On The Mainline (1:43)


Tennessee blues poet Sleepy John Estes made his recorded debut in 1929 with the song ""Broken Hearted, Ragged and Dirty Too"". In '35 John teamed up with Hammie Nixon and they went on to record many classic sides together until WWII. After a twenty-year absence Delmark's Bob Koester rediscovered John and presented him to the new blues audience in `62. This led to a series of LPs and a reinvigorated career. This album was recorded in November of 1974 at concerts in Japan, one of the very first tours of that country by a blues artist - preceded only by a B.B. King State Department appearance. The Estes tour was a great success and even resulted in an Estes track appearing on the Japanese Top 100 chart!


Live In Japan With Hammie Nixon



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