Альбомы исполнителя
Sleepy John Estes in Europe
1999 · альбом
Blues Live
1999 · альбом
Goin' To Brownsville
1998 · альбом
Broke and Hungry
1995 · альбом
Brownsville Blues
1992 · альбом
I Ain't Gonna Be Worried No More 1929-1941
1992 · альбом
On the Chicago Blues Scene
1991 · альбом
Good And Angel
2022 · сингл
Easin' Back to Tennessee
2021 · альбом
Tennessee Bluesman
2021 · альбом
Working Man
2018 · Мини-альбом
Drop Down
2018 · альбом
Fall Into Deep Sleep With the Sounds of Nature
2017 · альбом
Blues Music
2016 · альбом
Crying the Blues
2015 · альбом
Sleepy John Estes (Doxy Collection, Remastered)
2015 · альбом
Live in Japan with Hammie Nixon
2014 · альбом
Blues At Home 11
2013 · альбом
Blues Masters Vol. 24
2009 · альбом
Working Man Blues (The Best Of)
2009 · сборник
On Highway 80
2008 · альбом
Jack And Jill Blues - The Best Of
2008 · сборник
The Ultimate Jazz Archive 13 - Blues (3 Of 4)
2007 · альбом
Sleepy John Estes
2006 · альбом
Newport Blues
2002 · альбом
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Биография
Big Bill Broonzy called John Estes' style of singing "crying" the blues because of its overt emotional quality. Actually, his vocal style harks back to his tenure as a work-gang leader for a railroad maintenance crew, where his vocal improvisations and keen, cutting voice set the pace for work activities. Nicknamed "Sleepy" John Estes, supposedly because of his ability to sleep standing up, he teamed with mandolinist Yank Rachell and harmonica player Hammie Nixon to play the house party circuit in and around Brownsville in the early 1920s. The same team reunited 40 years later to record for Delmark and play the festival circuit. Never an outstanding guitarist, Estes relied on his expressive voice to carry his music, and the recordings he made from 1929 on have enormous appeal and remain remarkably accessible today. Despite the fact that he performed for mixed Black and white audiences in string bands, jug bands, and medicine show formats, his music retains a distinct ethnicity and has a particularly plaintive sound. Astonishingly, he recorded for six decades on Victor, Decca, Bluebird, Ora Nelle, Sun, Delmark, and others. Over the course of his career, his music remained simple yet powerful, and despite his sojourns to Memphis and Chicago he retained a traditional down-home sound. Some of his songs are deeply personal statements about his community and life, such as "Lawyer Clark" and "Floating Bridge." Other compositions have universal appeal ("Drop Down Mama" and "Someday Baby") and went on to become mainstays in the repertoires of countless musicians. One of the true masters of his idiom, he lived in poverty, yet was somehow capable of turning his experiences and the conditions of his life into compelling art. ~ Barry Lee Pearson, Rovi