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Sleepy John Estes: Sleepy, Getting Sleepier

Philip Norman, Sunday Times, 1972

THE ROAD stops at Sleepy John's house, at the top of a ploughed field, outside Brownsville, Tennessee, where the earth is thick and unyielding as old dung and the wind causes skeletons of old newspaper to dance and somersault.

Total word count of piece: 1963

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