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Track: Broken-Hearted, Ragged and Dirty Too
Artist: Sleepy John Estes
Album: Time Is Drawing Near

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Name: Sleepy John Estes
Spotify Genres: country blues, blues, classic blues
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American blues singer & guitarist. born 25 January 1899 in Ripley, Lauderdale County, Tennessee. died: 5 June 1977 in Brownsville, Haywood County, Tennessee. Estes made his debut as a recording artist in Memphis in 1929, at a session organized by [a900371] for Victor Records. He later recorded for the Decca and Bluebird labels, with his last pre-war recording session taking place in 1941. He made a brief return to recording at Sun Studio in Memphis in 1952, recording "Runnin' Around" and "Rats in My Kitchen," but otherwise was largely out of the public eye for two decades. Though only modestly skilled as a guitarist (he was frequently teamed with more capable musicians, like [a307162], [a307450], and the piano player [a516933]), Estes was a fine singer, with a distinctive "crying" vocal style. He sounded so much like an old man, even on his early records, that blues revivalists reportedly delayed looking for him because they assumed he would have to be long dead, and because fellow musician [a307270] had written that Estes had died. By the time he was tracked down, by [a319451] and [a666121] in 1962, he had become completely blind and was living in abject poverty. He resumed touring and recording, though his later records are generally considered less interesting than his pre-war output.

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Release: John Estes* - Broken Hearted, Ragged And Dirty, Too / Black Mattie Blues
Year: 1930
Genres: Blues
Styles: Memphis Blues

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