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Electric Sleep album by Sleepy John Estes was released Sep 18, 1993 on the Delmark label. To a country blues purist, asking Sleepy John Estes to record an album of electric Chicago blues is an act of blasphemy. Electric Sleep songs So imagine the reaction of such elitists when, in 1968, Delmark president Bob Koester united the Tennessee bluesman with an electric-oriented Chicago blues band that included Jimmy Dawkins on electric guitar, Sunnyland Slim on piano, Carey Bell on harmonica, and Earl Hooker or Joe Harper on electric bass. Purists were appalled, and they had no kind words for the resulting album, Electric Sleep. But if they hadn't been so close-minded, they would have realized that this is a decent album, if an uneven and unremarkable one. Electric Sleep album While Estes' vocal style is pretty much the same, the band is pure Chicago blues -- and when you think it, the combination makes perfect sense. Chicago's electric blues were a logical extension of southern country blues, just as rock & roll, soul, and funk were a logical extension of electric Chicago blues and jump blues (and just as hip-hop is a logical extension of funk and soul). Electric Sleep CD music contains a single disc with 13 songs. 

 1 Needmore Has Harmed Many a Man   
 2 If The River Was Whiskey   
 3 Everybody's Got to Change Sometime   
 4 Walking Down Beale Street   
 5 Laura Had a Dream   
 6 Newport Blues 
 7 May West   
 8 How to Sing These Blues   
 9 Sweet Little Flower   
 10 I Ain't Gonna Sell It   
 11 Easin' Back To Tennessee 
 12 Airplane   
 13 Drop Down Mama 

Label Delmark
Orig Year 1969
Discs 1
Release Date Sep 18, 1993
Studio/Live Studio
Mono/Stereo Stereo
Producer Robert G. Koester
Engineer Dave Antler
Recording Time 57 minutes

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