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Sleepy John Estes

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About the artist

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.

Top songs

  1. Milk Cow Blues
  2. Clean Up At Home
  3. Drop Down Mama
  4. Someday Baby Blues
  5. Someday Baby
  6. Little laura blues
  7. Floating Bridge
  8. Down South Blues
  9. Working Man Blues
  10. The Girl I Love, She Got Long Curly Hair
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  1. The Girl I Love She Got Long Curly Hair
  2. Liquor store blues
  3. Everybody oughta make a change
  4. Stop that thing
  5. Diving Duck Blues
  6. Street car blues
  7. I Ain't Gonna Be Worried No More
  8. Rats in My Kitchen
  9. Married Woman Blues
  10. Airplane Blues
  11. Lawyer Clark Blues
  12. Brownsville blues
  13. Hobo Jungle Blues
  14. Jack and Jill Blues
  15. Special Agent
  16. Expressman blues
  17. Poor John Blues
  18. Mailman Blues
  19. Black mattie blues
  20. Divin' Duck Blues
  21. Need More Blues
  22. Special Agent (Railroad Police Blues)
  23. Jailhouse Blues
  24. Time is drawing near
  25. New Someday Baby
  26. Easin' Back to Tennessee
  27. Fire Department Blues
  28. Mary Come On Home
  29. Whatcha Doin'?
  30. Broken-Hearted, Ragged and Dirty Too
  31. Leavin' Trunk
  32. Fire Department Blues (Martha Hardin)
  33. Broke and Hungry
  34. Broken Hearted, Ragged and Dirty, Too
  35. Poor Man's Friend
  36. Government money
  37. Whatcha' Doin'
  38. Death Valley Blues
  39. When the Saints Go Marching in
  40. Who's Been Tellin' You Buddy Brown Blues
  41. The Girl I Love
  42. I'd Been Well Warned
  43. Broken Hearted, Ragged and Dirty Too
  44. Special Agent Blues
  45. You Shouldn't Do That
  46. Drop Down (I Don't Feel Welcome Here)
  47. Trying To See
  48. I'm a Tearing Little Daddy
  49. Vernita blues
  50. My Black Gal Blues
  51. Sweet Mama
  52. Stack O' Dollars
  53. The Girl I Love, She Got Long, Curly Hair (2003 Remastered)
  54. Registration Day Blues
  55. Your Best Friend's Gone
  56. Drop Down
  57. Don't You Want to Know
  58. Policy man
  59. You Got to Go
  60. Tell Me How About It (Mr. Tom's Blues)
  61. Poor Man's Friend (T Model)
  62. T-Bone Steak Blues
  63. Mail Man Blues
  64. Goin' to Brownsville
  65. Little Sarah
  66. Rats In The Kitchen
  67. Who's Been Telling You Buddy Brown Blues
  68. Policy Man Blues
  69. The Girl I Love, She Got Long, Curly Hair
  70. Holy Spirit
  71. Who's Been Telling You, Buddy Brown
  72. Race That You Don't Run
  73. You Shouldn't Do It
  74. City Hall Blues
  75. Al Rawls
  76. 3:00 Morning Blues
  77. 38 Pistol
  78. Beale Street Sugar
  79. Freedom Loan
  80. Black Mattie
  81. Everybody Oughta Change
  82. Olie Blues
  83. So Glad I'm Livin'
  84. I Wanta Tear It All the Time
  85. Streetcar Blues
  86. Sleepy John's Twist
  87. Whatcha Doin'
  88. Electric Chair
  89. God Can Use Me
  90. I Ain't Gonn Be Worried No More

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