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Sleepy John Estes fue un guitarrista y cantante de blues, nacido en Ripley, Tennessee, el 25 de enero de 1899 (aunque algunos autores lo cifran en el mismo día de 1904), y fallecido en Brownsville, Tennessee, el 5 de junio de 1977.
John Adam Estes (January 25, 1899 or 1900 – June 5, 1977), known as Sleepy John Estes, was an American blues guitarist, songwriter and vocalist. His music influenced such artists as the Beatles, Bob Dylan and Led Zeppelin.
25 de ene. de 2024 · Blues guitarist and singer Sleepy John Estes was born into a family of sharecroppers on January 25, 1904. His nickname came via an accident: He lost an eye in a baseball game in his teens,...
Estes, born Jan. 25, 1899, in Ripley, Tennessee, sang with conviction about his work, travels, friends, and townsfolk, as well as his loves, laments, hopes and desires. He began his recording career with the anthemic “Broken-Hearted, Ragged And Dirty Too” in 1929 for Victor Records.
Sleepy John Estes was an important and influential re-discovery of the Folk/Blues revival of the early 60s, with his clear, authentic country Blues voice.
When the documentary filmmaker David Blumenthal rediscovered Sleepy John Estes in 1962, the former blues great was destitute and living in a tumbled down shack in the middle of a cotton field outside the town of Brownsville, Tennessee. This was where his musical career had begun and 50 years before.
8 de oct. de 2017 · John Adam “Sleepy John” Estes, was born in Ripley, Tennessee, around 1900. A highly skilled blues musician, Estes played a pivotal role in reestablishing rural blues within the American music canon during the folk blues revival of the 1960s.
