Drop Down Mama - “Sleepy“ John Estes.

Here’s a record I bought in the 1950’s when going through my ’duffel coat, roll-neck 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