ESTES, JOHN (SLEEPY
). Bluesman ( in Ripley, Tennessee; in Brownsville, Tennessee). His family moved to Brownsville, Tennessee, when he was a child. As a boy he lost the sight of one eye: his vision deteriorated thereafter, and he became totally blind in 1949. He was taught to play guitar by his father and a local bluesman, Hambone
Willie Newbern. In 1927 he formed a team with harmonica player
Hammie Nixon
that lasted over fifty years...