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1. Newport Blues is an appropriate title for this minute CD because on July 28, , Estes had just appeared at the Newport Folk Festival, and he popped into New York before heading back down south. This session was hardly the first time that Estes had joined forces with Nixon and Rachell -- the three of them had been playing together since Price: $

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2. John Adam Estes (born in Ripley, Lauderdale County, Tennessee, January 25, — Brownsville, Haywood County, Tennessee, June 5, ) best known as Sleepy John Estes or Sleepy John, was a blues guitarist, songwriter and vocalist.. In , Estes' father, a sharecropper who also played some guitar, moved the family to Brownsville, Tennessee.

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3. Newport Blues is an appropriate title for this minute CD because on July 28, , Estes had just appeared at the Newport Folk Festival, and he popped into New York before heading back down south. This session was hardly the first time that Estes had joined forces with Nixon and Rachell -- the three of them had been playing together since.

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4. Hammie Nixon. né Hammie Davis a/k/a Hammie Nickerson b. January 22, in Brownsville, Haywood County, Tennessee - Travelin' Blues Sleepy John Estes / Hammie Nixon - President Kennedy Stayed Away Too Long - Yellow Yam Blues Sleepy John Estes On 80 Highway with Hammie Nixon - Love Grows In Your Heart - Potato Diggin' Man - Talk.

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5. The Brownsville scene was teeming with great musicians, and in time, Rachell met Sleepy John Estes and Hammie Nixon, and the trio worked the area as a jug band. Later, Rachell migrated to Memphis to work in the Beale Street scene, where he joined company with Estes and Jab Jones as the Three J’s Jug Band where they recorded for Victor in

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7. Sleepy John Estes discography and songs: Music profile for Sleepy John Estes, born 25 January Genres: Country Blues, Blues, Delta Blues. Albums include Anthology of American Folk Music, Anthology of American Folk Music, and Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music: Volume Four.

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8. Vocalist/guitarist Sleepy John Estes was already in his seventies when he recorded this set of mostly traditional country blues, while his partner, harmonica player and vocalist Hammie Nixon, was in his late kacafonvoigradin.kascewrcompefacapenhaulelagaras.infoinfo'd already been making music together for some 40 years or more so, not surprisingly, their playing and singing mesh seamlessly on this collection of previously unreleased 7/

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9. Sleepy John Estes was an important and influential re-discovery of the Folk/Blues revival of the early 60s. His guitar work was never more than rudimentary, but his clear piercing voice conveyed his authentic and personal country Blues to a new generation of fans and performers, and his songs live on in the work of many modern bands.

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