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Still the best mandoline blues on the internet.

The great Yank Rachell!!!❤❤❤

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Yank!!!!

Sleepy John Estes had the "sleeping disease" that caused people to fall asleep suddenly, it was difficult in the 1940s to get a doctor.

Santa played a song with Sleepy John Estes over 50 years ago and his partner, Hammie Nixon, encouraged him to continue. ruclips.net/video/S_gNXeBy1P4/видео.html

I was in awe of this video when originally posted 14 YEARS AGO. I still keep coming back to this haunting, yet relaxing song.

Came here because of The Loop

That mandolin speaks English, with a blues accent.

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Yank SHREDS!!!

This is my great Uncle so proud and blessed to have know him

How many times I keep returning to this video over & over & is a testament to these bluesmen & their music

Who plays mandolin?

Great Uncle could play

He sure is adequately names. Or today is just Sunday.

Sleepy and Yank! My world stood still!

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one of my fav youtube vids

Lovely blues and bluegrass merger.

To the comment below re: using a Strat instead of a mandolin .. you didn't know him. Yank played my Strat a few times (he also played guitar) but he was the quintessential Blues Mandolinist. People such as Ry Cooder, John Sebastian, etc. pretty much worshipped his style. Yank lived in Indianapolis (since the 1950s) He had amps and he plugged in. People wanted him to play without amplification now and then and he would do it for old times' sake (for folk festivals, etc.) .. but he liked technology too. He had two awesome Polytone amps and when we went out gigging, he used them .. He was a great man and I was so fortunate to get to play with him growing up and until he passed in 1997.

Stronger.

Thanks for posting this!!! I was only an eight year old kid, just starting to take guitar lessons, when this was filmed, --and I feel privileged to have heard and seen this at all~~ Pure music, adulterated only in that it was recorded on a stage, and not outdoors under the trees on a summer night. Anyone know where this was recorded? Thanks.

Sleepy John always seems as if he might leave us or slide into some other dimension at any moment. He doesn't feel fully engaged in our useless here and now.

wow.... you can really hear the AFrican roots here....

who's playing de bandolin

Awesome real legend real pure blues love it.

Yeahhh Man!!!👌👏

Sentimiento puro !!!!!

blues!!!!!

blues

James "Yank" Rachell on that mandolin!

this needs to be the youtube homepage.

I saw Sleepy John in Copenhagen's Las Vegas jazz club in the 60s. He was with Hammy Nixon, and I was 3 feet from him! They'd played as part of a big tour of old country and city blues singers, at the main concert hall, but we couldn't afford that so we went to the deserted Las Vegas in the hope that they'd come on there after. That's how we got to see most of the blues singers, plus Miles Davis, Ben Webster, Thelonius Monk and loads more. Good days.

brilliant . . . still have my LP from the 1960s!!!

Pure blues legends

I love it !

thinkbigize The guy with the mandolin is Yank Rachell if you're still wondering

analogue vinyl n video r the only formats that can tell it like it was intended 2 b heard,digital tech recreates midrange only,but analogue offers topend midrange n bottomend all with totally separate sound levels thu out,so thousands of new digital lp reissues that r pointlessly a carbon copy of a cd,with consistent multiple overdubs purely 2 hide inferior sonic output.dont enhance musical history it betrays it.cos the fact is all the original analogue 45s n lp releases r far sonically superior.i dare any label 2 c mon utube n defend their false claims of superiority n why they dont respect what the musicians intended from the superior mastertapes.

This is what I call pure music. There is no digital recording, no reverb, no voice enhancements, no dancers, not even backup singers just music pure and simple. How refreshing that is . . .

that guy needs a Strat

A Blues Walk in the Valley of the Mandolin!!

Wow....."what's a matter, what's a matter." What a duo!

Yank & Sleepy = one of dah best Blues duos ever !!!

Yank & Sleepy = one of dah best Blues duos ever !!!

thank you for the music!

Yank Rachel! My hero. Never saw live footage of him till now. Massive influence on me 1965-8. Every time my band plays "she Caught the Katy" I tell the crowd "This is by Yank Rachel'. FABULOUS

yep but sleepy john used his kisser rather than his paws. you can tell it startled him at 4:04. Unconventional, but still an effective way to push it away i guess. these guys are bad ass

gotta love these two. did anyone else notice sleepy john estes bonk his face on the mic when he stood up? good thing ol yank was there

he was born about fifty miles away from me. they put on a show on johns' porch every may in brownsville honor him