Lonesome Sundown

Green was born in 1928 on the Dugas Plantation near Donaldsonville, Louisiana. In 1948, at the age of 18, he moved to New Orleans and worked in various jobs, including porter at the New Southport Club, a casino in Jefferson Parish, at a hotel, a rice mill, and with a construction company. He returned to Donaldsonville by 1948 and, inspired by Muddy Waters and John Lee Hooker, began taking guitar lessons from a cousin. "Boogie Chillun," by John Lee Hooker was the first song that he learned to play. == Music career ==

In 1953, after a brief period as a truck driver in Jeanerette, Louisiana, he moved again to work at the Gulf Oil refinery in Port Arthur, Texas. Sundown played several concerts, including an appearance at the 1979 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival and tours of Sweden and Japan with Phillip Walker, but then walked away from the music business for good. He was posthumously inducted into the Louisiana Blues Hall of Fame in 2000. ==Musical style and influences==

Unusually for Louisiana musicians, Sundown's style of the blues was more in keeping with the sound of Muddy Waters than that of Jimmy Reed. His sombre and melancholic recordings and instantly recognizable style were described by Miller as "the sound of the swamp". Reviewing the Been Gone Too Long LP in ''Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies'' (1981), Robert Christgau said: ==Selected discography==

• Lonesome Sundown (AKA Lonesome Lonely Blues) (1970), Excello Records • Been Gone Too Long (1977), Joliet; Alligator; HighTone • ''I'm a Mojo Man: Best of the Excello Singles'' (1995), Excello/AVI Records • Mojo Man: The Complete 1956–1962 Excello Singles (2020), Soul Jam [EU] Records ==See also==