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Artist:
Sleepy John Estes
Title:
Electric Sleep

Tracks:
1. I Ain’t Gonna Sell It
2. Laura Had A Dream
3. Divin’ Duck Blues
4. Walking Down Beale Street
5. Everybody Oughta Make A Change
6. Need More Blues
7. Drop Down Mama
8. Airplane Blues
9. How To Sing These Blues
10. Sweet Little Flower
11. May West
12. Easin’ Back To Tennessee
13. Newport Blues



Details:
This 1968 Delmark recording was originally issued as "Electric Sleep", and the label has now reissued it, re-mixed & mastered from the original analogue tapes and with a brand new cover and title. The legendary country blues poet is accompanied by an all-star blues band : Jimmy Dawkins, guitar; Sunnyland Slim, piano; Carey Bell, harmonica & bass; Earl Hooker, Joe Harper, bass; Odie Payne Jnr., drums. The title "Electric Sleep" was a take on the Muddy Waters LP title "Electric Mud". But the similarities ended there; whereas ‘Mud’ was semi-psychedelic and musically quite a departure from a traditional blues sound, "On The Chicago Blues Scene" (‘Electric Sleep’) simply combines traditional Estes with an electric blues band. Sleepy John Estes (1899-1977) was born in Tennessee, and across a six-decade career retained his own plaintive, rural style.


Info: Other Delmark albums still available by him are : "Legend Of..." (603), "Broke & Hungry" (608), "In Europe" (611), "Brownsville Blues" (613), "Newport Blues" (639).

Label: Delmark

This item was added to our catalog on Thursday 10 April, 2008