When It's Sleepy Time Down South - Fingerstyle Jazz on the Dome a nylon string archtop

Enjoying a wintertime song while playing Louis Armstrong's theme song. There are many versions on youtube and here's a great one Here's some more info about the song “When It's Sleepy Time Down South“, also known as “Sleepy Time Down South“, is a 1931 jazz song written by Clarence Muse, Leon René and Otis René. It was sung in the movie Safe in Hell by Nina Mae McKinney, and became the theme song of Louis Armstrong, who recorded it almost a hundred times during his career.[1] The song is now considered a jazz standard. The lyrics concern the Great Migration in the United States, the movement of African-Americans from the South to cities in the North, with the singer talking about the “dear old Southland... where I belong“, and contain many racial stereotypes. Armstrong's popularity among African American audiences dropped because of the song, but at the same time it hel