Such was the fallout from the blues boom of the 1960s that Sleepy John Estes and his compadre Hammie Nixon cut this album just prior to leaving for their first visit to Japan back in July of 1974.

Sleepy John Estes was one of the numerous country blues men who benefited from the upsurge of interest in the music in the 1960s, some decades after they were first caught on record. He was recorded ...

The West Tennessee Delta Heritage Center will invite the public to join in celebrating the legacy of one of West Tennessee’s most influential blues musicians at the Sleepy John’s Country Blues ...

Film and sound elements recording performances by blues singers Sleepy John Estes and Yank Rachell. Processing and encoding funded by a grant from the Council on Library and Information Resources.

A rectangle in low relief, with a depiction of the head and chest of a man playing the guitar. The man wears glasses, a hat, and a suit. Behind the man, in the proper right upper corner, is a ...