TRACKLIST
A1 Rats In My Kitchen
A2 Someday Baby
A3 Stop That Thing
A4 Diving Duck Blues
A5 Death Valley Blues
A6 Married Woman Blues
B1 Down South Blues
B2 Who's Been Telling You, Buddy Brown
B3 Drop Down Mama
B4 You Got To Go
B5 Milk Cow Blues
B6 I'd Been Well Warned
DESCRIPTION
Any meaningful discussion about key blues records over the years needs Sleepy John Estes's The Legend of Sleepy John Estes at the table. Originally released after his rediscovery in 1962, this is real blues that cries out from the soul. Sleepy John Estes was a country blues singer / guitarist from Brownsville, Tennessee who was active before World War II. He made his debut as a studio recording guitarist in 1929 and recorded a number of works before retiring from the music scene in 1941. After a long departure from music, he was rediscovered by Bob Koester and a group of other Blues fanatics in 1962, and the blind and poverty-stricken man picked up the guitar again and began playing the soul of blues. This reissue LP adopts the original jacket artwork which displays the label as 'Delmar', the previous name of Delmark. As a long running blues label, we are so proud of releasing one of the most important works in the history of blues.