Easin' Back To Tennessee

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This is a Sleepy John Estes song. What you hear is the first time I ever played that song. I knew it, but not how to play it. I thought it’d be a cool one to do with Larry [Taylor] and Stephen [Hodges]. I related to the lyrics and decided to name the album that. I couldn’t get Sleepy John Estes’ stamp of approval as he is dead, but, interestingly, after I recorded it, my wife found a book of interviews from Living Blues magazine and in it he said ‘Easin’ Back‘was his favourite song.