Sleepy John Estes

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Milk Cow Blues 00:00 Tools
Clean Up At Home 02:37 Tools
Drop Down Mama 00:00 Tools
Someday Baby 00:00 Tools
Someday Baby Blues 00:00 Tools
Floating Bridge 00:00 Tools
Down South Blues 00:00 Tools
Working Man Blues 02:59 Tools
The Girl I Love, She Got Long Curly Hair 00:00 Tools
The Girl I Love She Got Long Curly Hair 00:00 Tools
Everybody oughta make a change 00:00 Tools
Little laura blues 00:00 Tools
Stop that thing 00:00 Tools
Liquor store blues 00:00 Tools
Street car blues 00:00 Tools
Diving Duck Blues 00:00 Tools
I Ain't Gonna Be Worried No More 00:00 Tools
Married Woman Blues 00:00 Tools
Lawyer Clark Blues 00:00 Tools
Airplane Blues 00:00 Tools
Rats in My Kitchen 00:00 Tools
Brownsville blues 00:00 Tools
Hobo Jungle Blues 00:00 Tools
Special Agent 00:00 Tools
Jack and Jill Blues 02:37 Tools
Black mattie blues 00:00 Tools
Poor John Blues 00:00 Tools
Mailman Blues 00:00 Tools
Expressman blues 00:00 Tools
Divin' Duck Blues 00:00 Tools
Need More Blues 00:00 Tools
Special Agent (Railroad Police Blues) 00:00 Tools
Jailhouse Blues 00:00 Tools
Time is drawing near 00:00 Tools
New Someday Baby 00:00 Tools
Fire Department Blues 00:00 Tools
Easin' Back to Tennessee 00:00 Tools
Whatcha Doin'? 00:00 Tools
Mary Come On Home 00:00 Tools
Fire Department Blues (Martha Hardin) 00:00 Tools
Broken Hearted, Ragged and Dirty, Too 00:00 Tools
Poor Man's Friend 00:00 Tools
Broke and Hungry 00:00 Tools
Government money 00:00 Tools
Whatcha' Doin' 00:00 Tools
I'm a Tearing Little Daddy 00:00 Tools
Special Agent Blues 00:00 Tools
When the Saints Go Marching in 00:00 Tools
Who's Been Tellin' You Buddy Brown Blues 00:00 Tools
Broken Hearted, Ragged and Dirty Too 00:00 Tools
Death Valley Blues 00:00 Tools
Trying To See 00:00 Tools
I'd Been Well Warned 00:00 Tools
The Girl I Love 00:00 Tools
You Shouldn't Do That 00:00 Tools
Vernita blues 00:00 Tools
My Black Gal Blues 00:00 Tools
Your Best Friend's Gone 00:00 Tools
Stack O' Dollars 00:00 Tools
Sweet Mama 00:00 Tools
Drop Down 00:00 Tools
Registration Day Blues 00:00 Tools
Drop Down (I Don't Feel Welcome Here) 00:00 Tools
Don't You Want to Know 00:00 Tools
Tell Me How About It (Mr. Tom's Blues) 00:00 Tools
T-Bone Steak Blues 00:00 Tools
Mail Man Blues 00:00 Tools
Little Sarah 00:00 Tools
Who's Been Telling You Buddy Brown Blues 00:00 Tools
Rats In The Kitchen 00:00 Tools
You Got to Go 00:00 Tools
The Girl I Love, She Got Long, Curly Hair (2003 Remastered) 00:00 Tools
Holy Spirit 00:00 Tools
Policy Man Blues 00:00 Tools
You Shouldn't Do It 00:00 Tools
Race That You Don't Run 00:00 Tools
Poor Man's Friend (T Model) 00:00 Tools
The Girl I Love, She Got Long, Curly Hair 00:00 Tools
Al Rawls 00:00 Tools
City Hall Blues 00:00 Tools
I Wanta Tear It All the Time 00:00 Tools
Whatcha Doin' 00:00 Tools
Who's Been Telling You, Buddy Brown 00:00 Tools
Girl I Love, She Got Long Curly Hair 00:00 Tools
38 Pistol 00:00 Tools
Tell Me How About It 00:00 Tools
Everybody Oughta Change 00:00 Tools
Streetcar Blues 00:00 Tools
3:00 Morning Blues 00:00 Tools
So Glad I'm Livin' 00:00 Tools
God Can Use Me 00:00 Tools
Freedom Loan 00:00 Tools
Olie Blues 00:00 Tools
Runnin' Around 00:00 Tools
Pat Mann 00:00 Tools
Vassie Williams 00:00 Tools
I Ain't Gonn Be Worried No More 00:00 Tools
Young Lawyer 00:00 Tools
Beale Street Sugar 00:00 Tools
Fire Departement Blues 00:00 Tools
Harlem Bound 00:00 Tools
I Keep On Drinking 00:00 Tools
Sleepy John's Twist 00:00 Tools
Black Mattie 00:00 Tools
Electric Chair 00:00 Tools
Sloppy Drunk Blues 00:00 Tools
Watcha doin' 00:00 Tools
Run Around 00:00 Tools
Watcha Doin'? 00:00 Tools
Broken Hearted Raggedy and Dirty Too 00:00 Tools
Drop Down Mamma 00:00 Tools
President Kennedy Stayed Away Too Long 00:00 Tools
It Was A Dream 00:00 Tools
Stop That Thingh 00:00 Tools
Who's Been Telling You, Buddy Brown Blues 00:00 Tools
Goin' to Brownsville 00:00 Tools
Lost My Eyesight 00:00 Tools
Policy Man Blues (Take 1) 00:00 Tools
Lawyer Clarck 00:00 Tools
Tell Me Now About It 00:00 Tools
Try Him And See 00:00 Tools
Sweet Sugar Mama 00:00 Tools
Divin' Duck 00:00 Tools
Who's Been Tellin' You 00:00 Tools
Martha Hardin 00:00 Tools
Come Back Home, Little Girl 00:00 Tools
Floating Bridge (Remastered) 00:00 Tools
Sixty-One And Sixty-Two Rats 00:00 Tools
80 Highway 00:00 Tools
poor mans friend 00:00 Tools
I'm Goin' Home 00:00 Tools
Poor Man's Friend (T-Model) 00:00 Tools
Runnin' Around (Take 1) 00:00 Tools
Drop Down Mama (orig 1935 vsn) 00:00 Tools
Love Grows in Your Heart 00:00 Tools
In My Father's House 00:00 Tools
Policy Man Blues Take 1 00:00 Tools
Poor Man?s Friend 00:00 Tools
The Girl I Love, She Got Long, Curly Hair - 2003 Remastered 00:00 Tools
Denmark Blues 00:00 Tools
Little Laura 00:00 Tools
Needmore Blues 00:00 Tools
Vernita's Blues 00:00 Tools
Rats 00:00 Tools
If The River Was Whiskey 00:00 Tools
Working Man's Blues 00:00 Tools
I Stayed Away Too Long 00:00 Tools
Bottle Up And Go 00:00 Tools
Vernita 00:00 Tools
Don't You Want to Know (The Delta Boys) 00:00 Tools
Stone Blind 00:00 Tools
Stone Blind Blues 00:00 Tools
Buddy Brown 00:00 Tools
I Ain't Gonna Sell It 00:00 Tools
Do Lord Remember ME 00:00 Tools
Who's Been Telling You 00:00 Tools
The Woman I Love 00:00 Tools
Mary Come Home 00:00 Tools
I Wanna Tear It All the Time 00:00 Tools
Mountain Cat Blues 00:00 Tools
I'll Be Glad When You're Dead 00:00 Tools
Needmore Has Harmed Many A Man 00:00 Tools
Newport Blues 00:00 Tools
Whatcha Doin? 00:00 Tools
I'll Work Up To You Someday 00:00 Tools
You Oughtn't Do That 00:00 Tools
Who's Been Tellin You Buddy Brown Blues 00:00 Tools
Married Women Blues 00:00 Tools
Potatoe Diggin' Man 00:00 Tools
Thre O'Clock in the Morning Blues 00:00 Tools
Diving Duck Bl 00:00 Tools
You Shouldn't Do That (The Delta Boys) 00:00 Tools
Easin´ Back To Tennessee 00:00 Tools
Drop Down (I Don't Feel Welcome Here 00:00 Tools
Bring Me My .38 Pistol 00:00 Tools
Broken Hearted, Ragged & Dirty Too 00:00 Tools
Everybody Oughta Make a Change (Remastered) 00:00 Tools
Laura Had A Dream 00:00 Tools
Talk 00:00 Tools
Bring Me My 38 Pistol 00:00 Tools
Driving Duck Blues 00:00 Tools
Blues For J. F. K. 00:00 Tools
Walking Down Beale Street 00:00 Tools
Little Sarah (James 'Yank' Rachel, vocal) 00:00 Tools
Bye and Bye When Morning Comes 00:00 Tools
Raildoad Police Blues 00:00 Tools
May West 00:00 Tools
I'm A Tearing Little Daddy (Alternate) 00:00 Tools
Potato Diggin' Man 00:00 Tools
Gravel Road Woman 00:00 Tools
Bye And Bye When The Morning Comes 00:00 Tools
Who_s_Been_Tellin_You_Buddy_Brown_Blues 00:00 Tools
Corrina Corinna 00:00 Tools
Sweet Little Flower 00:00 Tools
Expressman Blues (James 'Yank' Rachel, vocal) 00:00 Tools
T-Bone Steak Blues (James 'Yank' Rachel, vocal) 00:00 Tools
Broken Hearted Ragged And Dirty Too 00:00 Tools
Holy Spirit, Don't You Leave Me 00:00 Tools
Everybody's Got To Change Sometime 00:00 Tools
Diving_Duck_Blues 00:00 Tools
Corrine Corrina 00:00 Tools
Mailman Blues (Remastered) 00:00 Tools
Whatcha_Doin_ 00:00 Tools
You Souldn't Do That 00:00 Tools
Black gal swing 00:00 Tools
Back Water Blues 00:00 Tools
T Model Ford 03:39 Tools
Fire Department Blues (Martha Hardin 00:00 Tools
Selling The Jelly 00:00 Tools
DROP DOWN BLUES 00:00 Tools
Liquor Store Blues - Remastered 00:00 Tools
Liqour Store Blues 00:00 Tools
Special Agent - Railroad Police Blues 00:00 Tools
Sweet Mama (James 'Yank' Rachel, vocal) 00:00 Tools
Mr. Tom's Blues 00:00 Tools
Store Blind 00:00 Tools
Poor Man's Friend - T Model 00:00 Tools
It's All Over 00:00 Tools
Tell Me How About It (Mr Tom's Blues) 00:00 Tools
Hobo Jungle Blues - 1937 00:00 Tools
Tin Pan Alley 00:00 Tools
Ticket Agent Blues 00:00 Tools
New Minglewood Blues 00:00 Tools
Big Fat Mama/Liquor Store 00:00 Tools
Registration Day Blues - Original 00:00 Tools
How To Sing These Blues 00:00 Tools
You Shouldn't Say That 00:00 Tools
President Kennedy (Take 14) 00:00 Tools
Runnin' Around - Original 00:00 Tools
Like I Want To Be 00:00 Tools
Whatcha Doin'? (1930) 00:00 Tools
Whatcha Doin 00:00 Tools
Diving Duck Blues (1929) 00:00 Tools
Rats In My Kitchen - Original 00:00 Tools
Devil In The Woodpile 00:00 Tools
Texas Tommy 00:00 Tools
Sleepy John Estes Interviewed By Pete Welding 00:00 Tools
Sleepy John Estes - Down south blues 00:00 Tools
Drop Down Baby 00:00 Tools
Liquor Store 00:00 Tools
I'll Be Glad When You're Dead, You Rascall You 00:00 Tools
President Kennedy (Take 13) 00:00 Tools
Crazy 'bout My Black Gal 00:00 Tools
Wadie Green Blues 00:00 Tools
When Your Mother Is Gone 00:00 Tools
A Hard Pill To Swallow 00:00 Tools
Bad Luck's My Buddy 00:00 Tools
Chickasaw Special 00:00 Tools
Special Agent (Remastered) 00:00 Tools
Sleepy John Estes - Government Money 00:00 Tools
Needmor Has Harmed Many A Man 00:00 Tools
divin duck blues 00:00 Tools
T-Model Ford 00:00 Tools
Airplane 00:00 Tools
Special Agent Blues - 1938 00:00 Tools
The Girl I Love, She Got Curly Hair 00:00 Tools
222 Milk Cow Blues 00:00 Tools
New Someday Baby - Remastered 00:00 Tools
13 Working Man Blues Chicago 24-9-1941 00:00 Tools
Divin´ Duck Blues 00:00 Tools
Floating Bridge - Single Version 00:00 Tools
Special Agent Railroad Police Blues 00:00 Tools
Drop Down Blues - Remastered 00:00 Tools
Divin'Duck Blues 00:00 Tools
Who's Been Tellin' You Buddy Brown Blues (1935) 00:00 Tools
Corinna 00:00 Tools
38 Pistol Blues 00:00 Tools
Need More Blues - Remastered 00:00 Tools
Floating Bridge Blues - Remastered 00:00 Tools
Jack and Jill Blues - Remastered 00:00 Tools
Jailhouse Blues - Remastered 00:00 Tools
Every Time My Heart Beats 00:00 Tools
Time Is Drawing Near - Remastered 00:00 Tools
Everybody Ouahta Make a Change 00:00 Tools
Sugar Farm Blues 00:00 Tools
Little Sarah (James "Yank" Rachel, Vocal) 00:00 Tools
Floating Bridge Blues 00:00 Tools
Lonesome Ground 00:00 Tools
Up & Down 00:00 Tools
B K Blues 00:00 Tools
IGA 00:00 Tools
Drivin' Duck Blues 00:00 Tools
New Doorbell Blues 00:00 Tools
Hobo Jungle Blues - Remastered 00:00 Tools
Mailman Blues - Remastered 00:00 Tools
Fox Chase 00:00 Tools
Runnin' Around [1951] 00:00 Tools
Airplane Blues - Remastered 00:00 Tools
Policy Man - Original 00:00 Tools
Down South Blues - Sleepy John Estes 00:00 Tools
I'm Going Home 00:00 Tools
Who's Telling You Buddy Brown Blues 00:00 Tools
Sleepy Join Estes Interviewed by Pete Welding 00:00 Tools
Worried Mind Blues 00:00 Tools
The Girl I Love, She's Got Long Curly Hair 00:00 Tools
FLOATING BRIDGE - BLUES 00:00 Tools
IGA (Independent Grocers Alliance) 00:00 Tools
Hobo Jingle Blues 00:00 Tools
The girl i love she got log curly hair 00:00 Tools
Everybody´s Got To Change Sometime 00:00 Tools
President Kennedy (Take 1) 00:00 Tools
Clean Up At Home (Take 1) 00:00 Tools
When You Lose Your Eyesight 00:00 Tools
Love Growns In Your Heart 00:00 Tools
NYC Breakdown 00:00 Tools
Your Best Friend's Gone [Live '64 w Hammie Nixon] 00:00 Tools
Goverment Money 00:00 Tools
Minnie's Blues 00:00 Tools
You Shouldn't Do That With The Delta Boys 00:00 Tools
Milk Cow Blues [1930] 00:00 Tools
Easin' Back to Tennessee - Remastered 00:00 Tools
Jesus Is on the Mainline 00:00 Tools
Sweet Mama (James "Yank" Rachel, Vocal) 00:00 Tools
Mr. Pat 00:00 Tools
New Someday Baby (Remastered) 00:00 Tools
The Girl I Love, She Got Long Curly Hair (club16593882) 00:00 Tools
You Shouldn´t Do That 00:00 Tools
Mary Comes On Home 00:00 Tools
Expressman Blues (James "Yank" Rachel, Vocal) 00:00 Tools
Get Up And Go 00:00 Tools
Easing Back To Tennessee (Take 3) 00:00 Tools
Come back home little girl 00:00 Tools
Someday Baby Blues (Feat. Hammie Nixon) 00:00 Tools
Brownsville Blues (Feat. Hammie Nixon) 00:00 Tools
I Ain't Gonna Be Worried No Mo 00:00 Tools
Girl I Love 00:00 Tools
Divin’ Duck Blues 00:00 Tools
Drop Down Mama-Let Your Papa See 00:00 Tools
Poor Man's Friend - Remastered 00:00 Tools
I Ain´t Gonna Be Worried No More 00:00 Tools
How To Sing The Blues 00:00 Tools
Whatcha Doin´ 00:00 Tools
Yellow Jam Blues 00:00 Tools
The Girl I Got She Got Long Curly Hair 00:00 Tools
Brownsville Blues (Remastered) 00:00 Tools
Expressmann Blues with Yank Rachel 00:00 Tools
Divin' Duck Blue 00:00 Tools
Floating Brigde 00:00 Tools
I Ain't Gonna Be Worried 00:00 Tools
Mary Come On Home (Remastered) 00:00 Tools
Easin Back To Tennessee 00:00 Tools
Tearing Little Daddy (Take 2) 00:00 Tools
I'm Twisting (Take 3) 00:00 Tools
some day baby 00:00 Tools
Kansas City Blues (Feat. Hammie Nixon) 00:00 Tools
Rachel Blues 00:00 Tools
.38 Pistol 00:00 Tools
Poor Man's Blues 00:00 Tools
Hobo Blues 00:00 Tools
The Girl I Love, She Got Long, Curly Hair [2003 Remastered] 00:00 Tools
I'm tearing little daddy 00:00 Tools
T-Bone Steak Blues (James "Yank" Rachel, Vocal) 00:00 Tools
Air Plane Blues 00:00 Tools
Runnin' Around (2) 00:00 Tools
80 Highway Blues 00:00 Tools
Black Gal Swing With The Delta Boys 00:00 Tools
Why Women Don't Worry (feat. Hammie Nixon) 00:00 Tools
Little Laura Was A Dreamer 00:00 Tools
Diving Duck Blues (Feat. Hammie Nixon) 00:00 Tools
Electric Chair (1963) 00:00 Tools
Need More Blues (Feat. Hammie Nixon) 00:00 Tools
I'm A Tearing Little Daddy [Live '64 w Hammie Nixon] 00:00 Tools
Untitled Blues (Fragment) [feat. Hammie Nixon] 00:00 Tools
I Can't Afford to Do It (Take 3) [feat. Hammie Nixon] 00:00 Tools
I'll Be Glad When You're Dead (Take 5) [feat. Hammie Nixon] 00:00 Tools
Broke and Hungry (1963) 00:00 Tools
01. Rats in My Kitchen 00:00 Tools
Poor Mother's Child 00:00 Tools
Vernila Blues 00:00 Tools
Policy Man Blues (take 1) (Sun Uniss 04-24-52) 00:00 Tools
Airplace 00:00 Tools
Need More Blues (Remastered) 00:00 Tools
Regostration Day Blues 00:00 Tools
All Night Long 00:00 Tools
Lawyer Clerk Blues 00:00 Tools
08 - Who's Been Telling You, Buddy Brown - 1962 - The Legend of Sleepy John Estes (1991 reissue) 00:00 Tools
07 - Down South Blues - 1962 - The Legend of Sleepy John Estes (1991 reissue) 00:00 Tools
My Black Girl Blues 00:00 Tools
Clean That Home 00:00 Tools
Tell Me How About It (Mr - Tom's Blues) 00:00 Tools
Special Agent (Railroad Police 00:00 Tools
Every Time My Heart Beats with TheDelta Boys 00:00 Tools
Watcha Doin? 00:00 Tools
Time Is Drawing Near (Remastered) 00:00 Tools
New Mnglewood Blues 00:00 Tools
Broken Hearted Raggedly And Dirty Too 00:00 Tools
Black Mettie Blues 00:00 Tools
the girl i love got long curly 00:00 Tools
Corrina, Corrina (Take 2) [feat. Hammie Nixon] 00:00 Tools
Sloppy drunkblues 00:00 Tools
Who's Been Telling You (Take 3) [feat. Hammie Nixon] 00:00 Tools
Tennessee Worried Blues 00:00 Tools
Little Laura Blues (Remastered) 00:00 Tools
Divin´ Duck 00:00 Tools
I´m Goin´ Home 00:00 Tools
Sweet Mama with Yank Rachel 00:00 Tools
Expressman Blues, Wadie Green Blues 00:00 Tools
08. Who's Been Telling You, Buddy Brown Blues 00:00 Tools
Bad Luck My Buddy 00:00 Tools
09 - Drop Down Mama - 1962 - The Legend of Sleepy John Estes (1991 reissue) 00:00 Tools
Divin' Duck Blues - Original 00:00 Tools
The Girl I Love She Got Long Curly Blues 00:00 Tools
Lord Have Mercy 00:00 Tools
Trouble Trouble Blues 00:00 Tools
Weary Worried Blues 00:00 Tools
06 - The Girl I Love She Got Long Curly Hair (VA - The Early Blues Roots Of Led Zeppelin 2000) 00:00 Tools
Sleepy John Estes / The Girl I Love, She Got Curly Hair 00:00 Tools
President Kennedy (Take 2) [feat. Hammie Nixon] 00:00 Tools
Drop Down Mama (1) 00:00 Tools
Drop Down Mama - Sleepy John Estes 00:00 Tools
Poor Man s Friend 00:00 Tools
Fire Department Blues Martha Hardin 00:00 Tools
Going Back To Brownsville (Feat. Hammie Nixon) 00:00 Tools
Kansas City Blues 00:00 Tools
01-Milk Cow Blues 00:00 Tools
Runnin' Around (alt) 00:00 Tools
11. Milk Cow Blues 00:00 Tools
Down South Blues (1935) [Sleepy John Estes] 00:00 Tools
Corrina, Corrina (Take 3) [feat. Hammie Nixon] 00:00 Tools
I Came for To Do It 00:00 Tools
The Girl I Got She Got Long Curly Hair (1929) 00:00 Tools
Too Floating Bridge 00:00 Tools
The Girl I Love, She Got Long Curly Hair (Goin' To Brownsville) 00:00 Tools
When You Lose Your Eversight 00:00 Tools
Stack O'Dollars 00:00 Tools
Harlem Hound 00:00 Tools
Drop Down Mama, Let Your Papa See 00:00 Tools
Fire Department Blues with Martha Hardin 00:00 Tools
In My Father´s House 00:00 Tools
06 - Married Woman Blues - 1962 - The Legend of Sleepy John Estes (1991 reissue) 00:00 Tools
Vernita´s Blues 00:00 Tools
Tell Me How About It (Mr Toms Blues) 00:00 Tools
Mailman Blues (1966) 00:00 Tools
Liquor Store Blues (Remastered) 00:00 Tools
Army Man Blues 00:00 Tools
Poor Man's Friend (Remastered) 00:00 Tools
Runnin' Around (Take1) 00:00 Tools
Somebody Baby 00:00 Tools
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John Adam Estes (born in Ripley, Lauderdale County, Tennessee, January 25, 1899 — Brownsville, Haywood County, Tennessee, June 5, 1977) best known as Sleepy John Estes or Sleepy John, was a blues guitarist, songwriter and vocalist. 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. 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. 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. He later recorded for the Decca and Bluebird labels, with his last pre-war recording session taking place in 1941. 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. 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 (1965). Many of Estes' original songs were based on events in his own life or on people he knew from his home town of Brownsville, Tennessee, such as the local lawyer ("Lawyer Clark Blues"), local auto mechanic ("Vassie Williams' Blues"), or an amorously inclined teenage girl ("Little Laura Blues"). "Lawyer Clark Blues" referenced the lawyer, and later judge and senator, Hugh L. Clarke. Clarke and his family lived in Brownsville, and according to the song let Estes 'off the hook' for an offense. He also dispensed advice on agricultural matters ("Working Man Blues") and chronicled his own attempt to reach a recording studio for a session by hopping a freight train ("Special Agent (Railroad Police Blues)"). His lyrics combined keen observation with an ability to turn an effective phrase. Some accounts attribute his nickname "Sleepy" to a blood pressure disorder and/or narcolepsy. Others, such as blues historian Bob Koester, claim he simply had a "tendency to withdraw from his surroundings into drowsiness whenever life was too cruel or too boring to warrant full attention". Estes suffered a stroke while preparing for a European tour, and died on June 5, 1977, at his home of 17 years in Brownsville, Haywood County, Tennessee. Estes is buried at Elam Baptist Church Cemetery in Durhamville, Lauderdale County, Tennessee. His gravemarker reads: Sleepy John Estes ".. ain't goin' to worry Poor John's mind anymore" In Memory John Adam Estes Jan. 25, 1899 June 5, 1977 Blues Pioneer Guitarist – Songwriter – Poet Sleepy John Estes' epitaph ".. ain't goin' to worry Poor John's mind anymore" was derived from his song, "Someday Baby Blues." "I Ain't Gonna Be Worried No More" was recorded in 1935, and in his song "Drop Down Mama", also recorded in 1935, Sleepy John refers to himself as "Poor John". Estes' grave at Elam Baptist Church Cemetery in Durhamville is located off a country road and at the far end of the cemetery. His grave is adjacent to a small grove of trees, secluded but not hidden. In 1991, Estes was posthumously inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.