| Let Us Now Praise Sleepy John | |
| Type: | studio |
| Artist: | Peter Case |
| Cover: | Let Us Now Praise Sleepy John.jpg |
| Released: | August 7, 2007 |
| Recorded: | San Francisco, CA |
| Genre: | Alternative rock, alternative country, folk rock |
| Label: | Yep Roc |
| Producer: | Ian Brennan |
| Prev Title: | Who's Gonna Go Your Crooked Mile? |
| Prev Year: | 2004 |
| Next Title: | Wig! |
| Next Year: | 2010 |
Let Us Now Praise Sleepy John is an album by American singer-songwriter Peter Case, released in 2007. It was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Traditional Folk Album.
The album was Case's first of new material in five years after six albums on the Vanguard label. The songs were written in tribute to blues artist Sleepy John Estes. Case wrote most of the songs in the middle of the night. "I’d wake up in the middle of the night and write. I woke up and a song would spill out… They just came out, fully formed. Other songs, like ‘Every 24 Hours,’ I wrote right before we went in the studio."[1]
Writing for Allmusic, music critic Mark Deming called Let Us Now Praise Sleepy John "a splendid album from a truly gifted artist." The album was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Traditional Folk Album in 2008.[2]
All songs written by Peter Case unless otherwise noted.
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