Drop Down Mama Sleepy John Estes

Here s a record I bought in the 1950 s when going through my duffel coat, rollneck sweater, corduroy trousers and sandals phase. (A real mouldy fig, as the sharp suited modern jazz fans called us trad fans. ) It is one of the recordings sponsored by The Jazz Appreciation Society and features Sleepy John in typical form and accompanied by Hammie Nixon on harmonica. Born John Adam Estes, to a sharecropper family in Ripley Tennessee on the 25th. Jan. 1904, his life was complicated from the start. O