Blue Monday -- Sleepy John Estes
I was stage manager for the very first Beale Street Music Festival, produced in 1977 by Memphis attorney Irvin Salky. I helped a blind country bluesman up the stairs to the stage for his set by holding his hand, one of a pair of the hugest hands I've ever seen. They belonged to Sleepy John Estes.
John was as authentic a country bluesman as any who ever lived and made many records, several of
