Someday Baby: Essential Recordings [Import]

Sleepy John Estes | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (February 10, 1999)
• Original Release Date: 1999
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Indigo UK
• ASIN: B000002XTM
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #794,094 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Girl I Love, She's Got Long Curly Hair

2. Broken Hearted, Ragged and Dirty Too

3. Divin' Duck Blues

4. Milk Cow Blues

5. Poor John Blues

6. Stack O' Dollars

7. Stop That Thing

8. Someday Baby Blues

9. Married Woman Blues

10. Drop Down Mama

11. I Ain't Gonna Be Worried No More

12. Floating Bridge

13. Jack and Jill Blues

14. Everybody Oughta Make a Change

15. Liquor Store Blues

16. New Someday Baby

17. Brownsville Blues

18. Special Agent

19. Time Is Drawing Near

20. Tell Me How About It

See all 23 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars 4 1/2 stars. Excellent compilation, January 24, 2004

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This review is from: Someday Baby: Essential Recordings (Audio CD)

This fine Indigo CD is the only Sleepy John Estes collection to rival Yazoo's (much more expensive) "I Ain't Gonna Be Worried No More", and even though the Yazoo CD has better liner notes, "Someday Baby" is still a very fine purchase.

These 23 songs are from John Adams Estes' best and most creative period. He usually recorded with a jug band, which gave his music a great variety of textures...mandolin player James "Yank" Rachell and harpist Hammie Nixon are prominent on most of these songs, and Estes is occationally backed by piano and second guitar as well.

John Estes' music swings with a loose, relaxed feel that isn't heard on many prewar blues records, and it is some of the most melodic acoustic blues you'll ever hear.
Almost all the must-have tunes are here, "The Girl I Love, She Got Long Curly Hair", "Someday Baby Blues", and "Diving Duck Blues", as well as the title track, "Every Ought To Make A Change", "Drop Down Mama", and "Floating Bridge". There is one notable omission, though, the fine "Clean Up At Home" is missing, which gives a slight edge to the Yazoo compilation.